# Knockshangarry, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Loughrea, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnoc an tSeangharraí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 206,910 m² (20.69 ha, 51.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,978 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Loughrea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/loughrea.md - Barony: Loughrea - Electoral division: Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 898 people lived in 307 households in the Loughrea Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20136 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62878 - Centre: latitude 53.189563, longitude -8.517378 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockshangarry, from 4,747 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres) to 124,329 m² (12.43 ha, 30.72 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4458465: 124,329 m² (12.43 ha, 30.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4458465.md - Parcel 2114032: 26,405 m² (2.64 ha, 6.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114032.md - Parcel 2069482: 25,978 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069482.md - Parcel 2080660: 25,058 m² (2.51 ha, 6.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080660.md - Parcel 2080659: 4,747 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2080659.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockshangarry 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 7 Jul 2025, Galway County Council 2560906: Conditional. Permission. for: lateral extension of the existing permitted quarry area (Plan File Ref. No. 46752) over an area of c.10.2 ha. area to a final floor level of c. 100 mOD; All related ancillary development and associated site works including processing (crushing and screening) and stockpiling of materials; provision of landscaped screening berm and all other related activities; Rehabilitation of the application area to natural habitat after uses following completion of extraction; The proposed development is within an overall application area of c. 24.7 hectares and is for a total period of 25 years. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560906/0 - 22 Jun 2022, Galway County Council 22796: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for partial demolition of existing dwelling, construction of single storey extension to south-west & north-west elevations, extension at first floor level to the rear (north-east elevation) , changes to existing dwelling elevations and ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 77.77 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 360.2 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 4.2 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22796/0 - 16 May 2019, Galway County Council 19735: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the installation of a new effluent treatment system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19735/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Knockshangarry. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA106-109: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA106-109----. This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 15 July 2015 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 Knockshangarry. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockshangarry, 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: 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 Knockshangarry. - 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/knockshangarry-62878.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockshangarry-62878.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockshangarry-62878.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockshangarry 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) - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowmore-60967.md - Knockadikeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockadikeen.md - Knockshangarry: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockshangarry-62877.md - Moanmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/moanmore.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockshangarry-62878 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/knockshangarry-62878