Knockroe

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 349 m² to 136,088 m² (13.61 ha, 33.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockroe 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

• GA123-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a ridge. An almost circular rath (35m E-W; 34m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.4m) at ENE. According to local information, a possible souterrain (GA123-016001-) in the interior was blocked up about 20 years ago. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA123-016001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a ringfort (GA123-016----). According to local information, a souterrain was blocked up within the last twenty years. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA123-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a ridge in undulating farmland. Oval rath (56m WSW-ENE; 31.7m NW-SE), in fair condition, defined by a bank. A gap (Wth 2.2m) at NNE appears to be modern. A trackway runs around the E limits of the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2018

• GA123-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a ridge in grassland and overlooking Lough Avalla to the E. This subcircular rath (29.4m NE-SW; 24.4m NW-SE), in fair condition, is defined by an earthen bank. The interior is higher than the external ground level. A gap (Wth 2.8m) at NW appears to be modern. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2018

• GA123-060 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a ridge in grassland. This children's burial ground consists of a subtriangular area (13m E-W; 11m N-S) which is defined along the E side by an earthen bank and by field walls along the S and NW sides. Within the interior numerous small stones mark graves. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

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

1,185,271 m² (118.53 ha, 292.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeacanty, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Ballycahalan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballycahalan electoral division: 213 people in 82 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycahalan, Ballyconnell, Drumminalough, Gardenblake, Gardenblake Commons, Lurgan

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.