Knockroe

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 252 m² to 137,807 m² (13.78 ha, 34.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Knockroe 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.

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a slatted cow shed with cubicles. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 1340 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17431

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockroe.

Recorded monuments

• GA017-133 Enclosure
  Description

  In a level area of pastureland. Very poorly preserved subrectangular enclosure (E-W 31m, N-S 30m) defined by a denuded bank; no visible surface trace survives at E. A pond occupies the interior. 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

• GA017-134 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a hillock in grassland. Circular rath (D 32.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible only at N; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. There is an entrance gap at E and a probable souterrain, (GA017-134001-) in the interior. (Neary 1914, 115, no. 109) 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

• GA017-134001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a ringfort (GA017-134----). Neary (1914, 115, no. 109) noted the existence of 'a dug out souterrain 30 ft. long, 12 wide, and 4 ft. deep [9.15m, 3.65m, 1.2m]'. However, all that is now visible is a muddy hollow (L 4m, Wth 2m), oval in plan, in NE quadrant. Up to 0.8m in depth, it runs N-S. 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

• GA017-135 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 29.5m, N-S 27.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from SW to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from SE to NW. A number of field banks cut the enclosing elements. 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

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

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 Knockroe.

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

Name

Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua

Area

1,168,266 m² (116.83 ha, 288.68 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbern, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Clonbern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonbern electoral division: 388 people in 133 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloon, Carrowkeel, Carrownagur, Carrowroe East, Dunblaney, Gortagarraun

Placenames

Knockroe 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.