# Knocknacreeva, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnoc na Craoibhe.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 933,184 m² (93.32 ha, 230.59 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,634 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Monivea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/monivea.md
- Barony: Clare
- Electoral division: Aughrim, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Aughrim electoral division: 1,317 people in 436 households; 89% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18458
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62856
- Centre: latitude 53.307336, longitude -8.823705 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknacreeva, from 5 m² to 215,213 m² (21.52 ha, 53.18 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2023802: 215,213 m² (21.52 ha, 53.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023802.md
- Parcel 2071194: 208,046 m² (20.8 ha, 51.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071194.md
- Parcel 5054168: 96,367 m² (9.64 ha, 23.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5054168.md
- Parcel 2071192: 82,648 m² (8.26 ha, 20.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071192.md
- Parcel 5032410: 74,916 m² (7.49 ha, 18.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5032410.md
- Parcel 4683189: 60,385 m² (6.04 ha, 14.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683189.md
- Parcel 2071193: 53,478 m² (5.35 ha, 13.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071193.md
- Parcel 4683184: 38,595 m² (3.86 ha, 9.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683184.md
- Parcel 2023801: 25,182 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023801.md
- Parcel 4651296: 17,351 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651296.md
- Parcel 4776477: 13,435 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4776477.md
- Parcel 4776475: 11,270 m² (1.13 ha, 2.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4776475.md
- Parcel 2113761: 7,983 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113761.md
- Parcel 2071190: 4,634 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071190.md
- Parcel 4684084: 3,129 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4684084.md
- Parcel 2442360: 3,075 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2442360.md
- Parcel 4636232: 2,578 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4636232.md
- Parcel 6218047: 2,476 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6218047.md
- Parcel 4694439: 2,449 m² (0.24 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4694439.md
- Parcel 5032392: 2,430 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5032392.md
- Parcel 2071191: 2,300 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2071191.md
- Parcel 2023800: 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2023800.md
- Parcel 5298167: 2,129 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5298167.md
- Parcel 5032425: 633 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5032425.md
- Parcel 5109526: 206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5109526.md
- Parcel 6217665: 125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6217665.md
- Parcel 4675182: 5 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4675182.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Knocknacreeva 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)

6 applications, newest first.

- 23 Dec 2025, Galway County Council 25365: N/a. Permission. to extend wind turbine testing & research site to rear of existing factory (previously granted under planning permission ref. number 13/1242) to include the following: 24 no. 20-30kw wind turbines (maximum height is 30.100 meters), includes 2 no. turbines in upper test site (previously granted under planning permission ref. no. 20/101), all other ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25365/0
- 29 Sept 2025, Galway County Council 2561412: Refused. Permission. for a period of 10 years for a development consisting of the provision of the following: i. 8 no. wind turbines with an overall turbine total tip height range of 178m - 185m, a rotor diameter range of 149m - 163m, and turbine hub height range of 101m - 104m, and associated foundations and hard standing areas; ii. A permanent 38kV substation compound (including a control building (157.6 sqm) with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and apparatus, security fencing, underground cabling, storage containers, wastewater holding tank, site drainage and all ancillary works); iii. Permanent underground electrical (38kV) and communications cabling to the existing Cashla Substation in the townland of Barrettspark (including joint bays, communication and earth sheath link chambers and all ancillary works along the route). This cabling route is primarily located within the public road corridor which includes protected structures (RPS No. 3747, RPS No. 146). iv. Underground electrical (20/33kV) and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines and meteorological mast to the proposed on-site substation; v. 2 no. temporary construction compounds (including site offices and welfare facilities (with a combined floor area of 202.5 sqm); vi. A meteorological mast with a height of 30 meters, security fencing and associated foundation and hard-standing area; vii. Upgrade of existing site tracks/ roads and provision of new site access roads, junctions and hardstand areas, including a new site entrance off the L3115; viii. Peat and Spoil Management Areas; ix. Tree felling and vegetation removal; x. Biodiversity enhancement measures (including peatland habitat enhancement, Marsh Fritillary habitat enhancement and management, establishment of hedgerows and native woodland planting); xi. Site drainage; xii. Operational stage site signage; and xiii. All ancillary works and apparatus. A thirty five-year operational life from the date of full commissioning of the wind turbines and subsequent decommissioning is being sought. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompany this application. An Opinion on Unconfirmed Details issued by Galway County Council (Opinion Ref. No. 25/MP/2) on 29th May 2025 accompanies this application. The details unconfirmed in this application are the turbine total tip height, rotor diameter and hub height. The range of parameters un. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561412/0
- 4 Jul 2025, Galway County Council 2560880: Conditional. Permission. to extend office unit and revise site boundaries. Gross floor space of proposed works: 108.10 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560880/0
- 26 Mar 2024, Galway County Council 2460331: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for change of use of part of agricultural shed to an office unit, and to retain treatment plant with percolation area. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 67 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460331/0
- 30 Jan 2020, Galway County Council 20101: Conditional. Permission. for wind turbine test site comprising of the following.:- 1. No. 12m high turbine tower with adjacent 12m high wind measuring mast and 1. No. 20m high turbine tower with adjacent 20m high wind measurement mast and all associated services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20101/0
- 21 Jan 2020, Galway County Council 2054: Conditional. Permission. to construct a 2 bay calving shed, a single bay machinery/farm storage shed and a holding pen/cattle enclosure. Gross floor space of proposed works: 280.85 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2054/0

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## 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 Knocknacreeva.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA083-044: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA083-044----. On a S-facing slope in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure, and named 'Caher' on OS Fair Plan. What survives is a circular area (D c. 31m) defined by a field wall, beneath which, from NW to N, are traces of a possible bank of collapsed stone. The interior is planted with trees. 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
- GA083-045: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA083-045----. On a S-facing slope in grassland. Named 'Caher' on OS Fair Plan and marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

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)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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 Knocknacreeva.
- 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/knocknacreeva.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/knocknacreeva.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/knocknacreeva.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Knocknacreeva 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)

- Caherbriskaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherbriskaun.md
- Caraunduff: https://everytownland.com/galway/caraunduff-60870.md
- Castlelambert: https://everytownland.com/galway/castlelambert.md
- Moor: https://everytownland.com/galway/moor-63344.md
- Pollagooil: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollagooil.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.

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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.

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