Knocklawrence

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocklawrence, from 2,384 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 279,584 m² (27.96 ha, 69.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Knocklawrence 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knocklawrence in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA133A002002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On the S bank of a stream, immediately to the SW of a holy well (GA133A002002-). Known locally as a 'Lisheen', this poorly preserved children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed subrectangular area (25m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) within which a large number of randomly placed set stones indicate graves. According to local information, burial continued up to c. 1950. Incorrectly numbered 3 on the RMP map. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocklawrence, about 1 in 20 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 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 Knocklawrence.

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

Name

Knocklawrence · Cnoc Labhráis

Area

996,831 m² (99.68 ha, 246.32 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Ardamullivan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

722 people lived in 245 households in the Ardamullivan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gilroe, Killeen, Knockatoo Mountain, Tonranny Mountain

Placenames

Knocklawrence 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.