# Knockafall, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templemore, barony of Gallen, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cnoca Fál. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 531,125 m² (53.11 ha, 131.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,745 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Templemore, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/templemore.md - Barony: Gallen - Electoral division: Strade, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 647 people lived in 239 households in the Strade electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35921 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152129 - Centre: latitude 53.931171, longitude -9.12744 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockafall, from 30 m² to 101,847 m² (10.18 ha, 25.17 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 976649: 101,847 m² (10.18 ha, 25.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976649.md - Parcel 873122: 98,095 m² (9.81 ha, 24.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873122.md - Parcel 932868: 87,903 m² (8.79 ha, 21.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932868.md - Parcel 991816: 86,988 m² (8.7 ha, 21.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991816.md - Parcel 4668899: 52,971 m² (5.3 ha, 13.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4668899.md - Parcel 4668910: 38,055 m² (3.81 ha, 9.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4668910.md - Parcel 4742683: 22,602 m² (2.26 ha, 5.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4742683.md - Parcel 900113: 14,481 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900113.md - Parcel 985380: 13,079 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985380.md - Parcel 911619: 4,411 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911619.md - Parcel 965507: 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/965507.md - Parcel 963400: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/963400.md - Parcel 940226: 1,637 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/940226.md - Parcel 884280: 700 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/884280.md - Parcel 943934: 554 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/943934.md - Parcel 941127: 300 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/941127.md - Parcel 891205: 218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/891205.md - Parcel 897817: 30 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/897817.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockafall 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) 1 application, newest first. - 16 Sept 2024, Mayo County Council 24377: N/a. Permission. Section 5 Declaration: Outdoor pre-school, outdoor toilets and prefab. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24377/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC, site code 002298, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002298 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA070-062: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA070-062----. On the N end of a N–S pasture ridge, overlooked by slightly higher ridges to the E and W. Recorded as a probable ringfort on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map which shows an oval-shaped enclosure (est. ext. diams. c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W). This map also records a small linear copse of trees (est. L c. 45m N-S; Wth c. 25m E-W) immediately to the W of the monument. Neither fort nor copse is recorded on subsequent edition of the OS map. No visible surface trace survives and modern field boundaries run N-S and E-W across the site. An upstanding ringfort (MA070-61----) lies c. 140m to the WSW. Date of visit: 08-5-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy 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 Knockafall. ## 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 Knockafall, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockafall. - 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/knockafall.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockafall.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockafall.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockafall 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) - Knockagarraun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockagarraun.md - Knockshanbally: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockshanbally.md - Longfield: https://everytownland.com/mayo/longfield.md - Tawnagh Beg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnagh-beg.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/mayo/knockafall - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/knockafall