Knockbrack

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 118 m² to 275,939 m² (27.59 ha, 68.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Knockbrack 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.

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater system, garage & all associates site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661373

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 184 sqm (H) & 60 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461737

• 30 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site works . Gross floor space of proposed works House 270.8 sqm and Garage 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212254

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey domestic shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 61 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211373

• 5 Jul 2021Conditional

  of a dwelling house, domestic garage & proprietary treatment system on a site with revised boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained is; House 126.06 sqm & Garage 25.35 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211207

• 3 Jun 2021Conditional

  of dwelling house under construction, North Eastern site boundary, percolation area and garage location, all granted under PI. Ref. 12/1171.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21970

• 24 Jun 2020Conditional

  to construct a 2 storey extension to dwelling house, sewerage treatment plant, percolation area & new vehicular entrance and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed development: 127 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20798

• 9 Apr 2018Unconditional

  to construct dwellinghouse, garage and associated services (gross floor space 271.77sqm). Previous Planning Ref. 12/1171.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18419

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 Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

• GA071-053 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• GA071-054 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockbrack.

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.

• Knockbrack, Athenry6 sales

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

2,710,035 m² (271 ha, 669.66 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Tiaquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tiaquin electoral division: 792 people in 250 households; 89% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caraun, Costellospark, Hundredacres, Knockbaun, Loughaunenaghan, Montpelier, Mountgarret, Pollavullaun, Tisaxon

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.