Knockcorrandoo

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockcorrandoo, from 1,907 m² to 309,684 m² (30.97 ha, 76.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Knockcorrandoo 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.

• 9 Dec 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, a domestic garage, and wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works:267 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212313

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tiaquin Bog 001709

Recorded monuments

• GA071-055 Windmill
  Description

  Situated in a forested area on top of a steep hillock; the Killaclogher River flows to NW. Circular three-storey windmill (D 3.35m, H 5.2m) in fair condition. Opposing doorways survive at N and S, the latter is partially blocked. A rectangular window is visible on 1st floor above S doorway. 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

• Mill (wind), 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-stage round-plan windmill, built c.1750, having opposite doorways, and standing at edge of ridge overlooking small valley. Roofless. Slightly battered rubble limestone walls. Square-headed doorways and windows with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs. No internal workings survive.

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, 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 Knockcorrandoo.

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

Name

Knockcorrandoo · Cnoc an Chorráin Duibh

Area

872,528 m² (87.25 ha, 215.61 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Monivea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monivea electoral division: 794 people in 273 households; 91% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafadda, Corrandoo, Kilbeg, Lenamore, Monivea Demesne

Placenames

Knockcorrandoo 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.