Knockbane

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbane, from 31 m² to 225,547 m² (22.55 ha, 55.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knockbane 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 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, private wastewater treatment system and to install a mobile home for temporary use until proposed dwelling house is habitable with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 141.20 sqm (house) & 48.00 (garage) & 39.80 (temp. mobile home)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461177

• 5 Mar 2020Conditional

  chun síneadh a chuir le mo theath cónaithe agus córas séacachais a thógáil; Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe; 104sm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20279

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ross Lake and Woods SAC 001312
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ross Lake And Woods 001312

Recorded monuments

• GA068-031 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a small island in Ross Lake. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Jonick Ohalorane' (Nolan 1901, 115). The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 83) record that 'a small portion of its ruins are still shewn [sic]' and Killanin (1947, 123) mentions 'the remains of the foundations' but these appear to be of an 18th-19th-C single-storey building. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA068-031001 Crannog
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA068-032 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating, recently cleared pastureland to S of Ross Lake. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 48m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockbane, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Knockbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockbane · An Cnoc Bán

Area

1,000,778 m² (100.08 ha, 247.3 acres)

Civil parish

Moycullen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Slieveaneena, the unit of the census

Census 2022

797 people lived in 280 households in the Slieveaneena electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolagh, Corbally, Dovepark, Killannin, Knockaunranny, Newtown, Oghery, Rinneen, Ross Demesne

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Knockbane 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.