Knockballyvishteal

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockballyvishteal, from 899 m² to 305,068 m² (30.51 ha, 75.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 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 Knockballyvishteal 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.

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling to include detached domestic garage, proprietary sewage treatment plant with percolation area, and all ancillary works including closure of existing agricultural gateway. Gross floor space of proposed works: house 278 sqm, garage 44sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24154

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house with associated modifications to existing dwelling house, replacing existing septic tank with new waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works . Gross floor area of proposed extension: 80 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261051

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage/fuel store and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 104 sqm (Garage)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191892

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with an onsite foul treatment unit and polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 244.41 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1869

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockballyvishteal.

Recorded monuments

• GA016-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in rolling grassland with bog visible to NE. Known locally as 'Bourke's Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 147), this poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 35m, N-S 33m) is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse which survive from SW through W to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field bank cuts 'the monument at NEandSE. 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

• GA016-084 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Known locally as 'Lyon's Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 146), this poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 52m) is defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. A gap at SW appears modern. A field bank cuts the monument at N and E, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives to NE of it. 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

• GA016-085 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a glacial ridge in grassland, flanked by bogland to NE and S. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 35m). Described by Neary (1914, 123, no. 148) as a 'circular, earthen, half ravelled fort … garth was over 100 ft. [30.5m]; scarp 6 ft [1.8m]' which had been encroached upon by 'tillage operations'; known locally as 'Concannon's Fort'. No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA016-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On SW-facing slope of a ridge in grassland overlooking bog to S. Known locally as 'Connolly's Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 145), this very poorly preserved circular rath (D 45m) is defined by a degraded scarp. 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 Knockballyvishteal.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockballyvishteal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockballyvishteal · Cnoc Bhaile Mhistéil

Area

2,998,983 m² (299.9 ha, 741.06 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Doonbally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doonbally electoral division: 626 people in 210 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagall, Baunmore, Carrowbaun, Dawros Upper, Graigueachullaire, Grange, Kilcloony, Lurgan, Rosmearan, Russelstown

Placenames

Knockballyvishteal 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.