Knockmascahill

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmascahill, from 167 m² to 198,501 m² (19.85 ha, 49.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Knockmascahill 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.

• 30 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the following; (1) Construction of a new detached dwelling house, (2) Domestic garage, (3) Proposed onsite effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is 367.58 sqm & Garage 48 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211159

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Clooncullaun Bog NHA 000245
• Natural Heritage Area: Keeloges Bog NHA 000281

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockmascahill.

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockmascahill · Cnoc Mhic Scaithil

Area

2,291,867 m² (229.19 ha, 566.33 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Creggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Creggs electoral division: 351 people in 139 households; 86% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhard, Clooncullaun, Faartan, Gortnadeeve West, Keeloges East, Keeloges West, Timacat

Placenames

Knockmascahill 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.