Knockavanny

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockavanny, from 111 m² to 198,737 m² (19.87 ha, 49.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockavanny in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  of the existing dwelling house, fuel storage sheds, greenhouse, septic tank/percolation area, exit/entrance gate along with all ancillary site works from that previously granted under planning permission reference number 036161

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661307

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockavanny Turlough 000289

Recorded monuments

• GA030-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise low-lying grassland. Subcircular ringfort (E-W 44m, N-S 41.8m), in fair condition, defined by two stone-lined banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from NE through E to S; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The outer bank does not survive from W to NW. A gap at ESE appears original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA030-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in rolling grassland. Circular rath (D 60m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible intermittently but for the most part a scarp forms the enclosing element. The outer bank is present only at W. There is an entrance gap at E. A field wall cuts the monument at SW and NW. Abutting the monument at W is a subcircular annexe (E-W 39m) defined by a scarp with the remains of a bank visible intermittently. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockavanny.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockavanny.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Knockavanny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockavanny · Cnoc an Bhainne

Area

680,782 m² (68.08 ha, 168.22 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Carrowrevagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowrevagh electoral division: 485 people in 162 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bettyspark, Drumaskin, Fear More, Fortpark, Newtown (Darcy), Newtown (Lynott), Tinkershill

Placenames

Knockavanny on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.