# Knockacurreen, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Burriscarra, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cnoc an Churraoin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 190,629 m² (19.06 ha, 47.11 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,294 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M4 Rural Village Consolidation Zoning, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Burriscarra, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/burriscarra.md
- Barony: Carra
- Electoral division: Burriscarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 453 people lived in 166 households in the Burriscarra electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34796
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152123
- Centre: latitude 53.729682, longitude -9.224264 (WGS 84)

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

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacurreen, from 2,052 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 96,826 m² (9.68 ha, 23.93 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 962717: 96,826 m² (9.68 ha, 23.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962717.md
- Parcel 881392: 74,939 m² (7.49 ha, 18.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881392.md
- Parcel 984890: 9,051 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984890.md
- Parcel 932558: 5,536 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932558.md
- Parcel 911130: 2,535 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911130.md
- Parcel 976229: 2,052 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976229.md

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

- M4 Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area): Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/d6847b84-8c8a-4ee4-bbb4-0360884f207a/VOL-1-Book_2.pdf#page128

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 16 Jul 2025, Mayo County Council 2560474: Conditional. Permission. Planning Permission for Development consisting of construction of a new slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works. There will be one building and all effluent will be collected and stored in the proposed slatted tank. The slatted shed will be 6.967m in height and is going to be constructed in an existing farmyard our clients family have been farming in for years.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560474/0
- 15 Oct 2024, Mayo County Council 24426: N/a. Permission. Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24426/0
- 19 May 2020, Mayo County Council 20314: Conditional. Permission. CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP TO A CHILDCARE FACILITY AND WILL INCLUDE FOR MINOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20314/0

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 Knockacurreen.

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

- MA100-050: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA100-050----. In pasture, crowning the summit of a hill, close to the break of slope on the N-NW side where there is a steep fall of ground. The location provides excellent views, with the Partry Mountains on the far horizon to W and the peak of Croagh Patrick visible to NW. This enclosure is not shown on the 1838 and 1931 OS 6-inch maps, but is shown on an 1830 Estate map (MS 2706 NLI). It has been levelled, but a subcircular area (diam. c. 30m E−W) outlined by a slight undulation can still be discerned at ground level. The SE arc has been truncated and it is now crossed by a NE−SW post and wire fence. A parallel levelled field bank is located 6m to SE. A grassed-over semicircular hollow or area of disturbance (4m across) cuts into the scarp at NNE. There is a small, circular hollow or pit (diam. 2m), infilled with loose stones, on the S edge of the enclosure. Attached images: MA100-050----_01.JPG Viewed from NE MA100-050----_02.JPG Viewed from NW Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 March 2021

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 Knockacurreen.

## 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 Knockacurreen, 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 low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockacurreen.
- 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/mayo/knockacurreen.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockacurreen.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockacurreen.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Knockacurreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Burriscarra: https://everytownland.com/mayo/burriscarra.md
- Carrownacon: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrownacon.md
- Drumnashinnagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumnashinnagh.md
- Gallgort: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gallgort.md
- Lawarreen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lawarreen.md
- Rooghaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rooghaun-152799.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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