# Knockdrummore, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnoc Droma Móir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 222,112 m² (22.21 ha, 54.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,094 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-loughrea-ra.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Marblehill, the unit of the census - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20191 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62846 - Centre: latitude 53.086624, longitude -8.462535 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockdrummore, from 2,555 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres) to 45,164 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1976052: 45,164 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976052.md - Parcel 1921990: 33,378 m² (3.34 ha, 8.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921990.md - Parcel 1976053: 29,561 m² (2.96 ha, 7.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976053.md - Parcel 1921996: 27,858 m² (2.79 ha, 6.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921996.md - Parcel 1976051: 22,273 m² (2.23 ha, 5.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976051.md - Parcel 1921991: 15,131 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921991.md - Parcel 1921995: 15,094 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921995.md - Parcel 5221255: 12,233 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5221255.md - Parcel 1976050: 7,210 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976050.md - Parcel 1921993: 4,539 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921993.md - Parcel 2113468: 3,943 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113468.md - Parcel 1921994: 3,293 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921994.md - Parcel 1921992: 2,555 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921992.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockdrummore in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Knockdrummore in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockdrummore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA125-078: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-078----. On a W-facing slope in hilly pastureland. Marked as an oval enclosure (c. 35m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NE-SW) on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On inspection in May 1983, apart from slight irregularities in the ground surface, no visible surface trace survives. However, its outline is visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph. Field boundaries clipped the monuement along the N and E sectors. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019 - GA125-079: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-079----. This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 September 2015 - GA125-080: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-080----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Cartron House, RIC barracks, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 30412507, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30412507. Detached five-bay two-storey former police barracks, built c.1800, with lower mutiple-bay two-storey return to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks having stepped dressed limestone capping. Painted rendered walls with weather-hung slating to gables and to return. Square-headed widnow openings having tooled limestone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door, and overlight. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to east long wall of return, now converted to window. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic storey to south-east of courtyard, having pitched slate roof and cement rendered chimneystack, painted rendered walls and square-headed openings with stone sills. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockdrummore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockdrummore. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockdrummore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockdrummore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockdrummore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockdrummore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynakill: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynakill-60431.md - Carrowroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowroe-61034.md - Cartron South: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartron-south.md - Clooneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/clooneen-61271.md - Loughpark: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughpark-63205.md - Marblehill: https://everytownland.com/galway/marblehill.md - Rosseeshal: https://everytownland.com/galway/rosseeshal.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockdrummore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/knockdrummore