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

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

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 554,585 m² (55.46 ha, 137.04 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,367 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Turlough, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/turlough.md
- Barony: Carra
- Electoral division: Turlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,560 people lived in 531 households in the Turlough electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35979
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152151
- Centre: latitude 53.889321, longitude -9.200895 (WGS 84)

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

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanour, from 154 m² to 149,685 m² (14.97 ha, 36.99 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 904329: 149,685 m² (14.97 ha, 36.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904329.md
- Parcel 1003462: 87,364 m² (8.74 ha, 21.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003462.md
- Parcel 5347805: 71,093 m² (7.11 ha, 17.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5347805.md
- Parcel 873021: 46,572 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873021.md
- Parcel 903146: 40,577 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903146.md
- Parcel 900194: 33,253 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900194.md
- Parcel 977362: 32,123 m² (3.21 ha, 7.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977362.md
- Parcel 2693070: 22,941 m² (2.29 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693070.md
- Parcel 5000728: 17,783 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000728.md
- Parcel 4666946: 13,090 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4666946.md
- Parcel 891197: 7,263 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891197.md
- Parcel 4666943: 7,193 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4666943.md
- Parcel 4666944: 5,595 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4666944.md
- Parcel 4269092: 5,367 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269092.md
- Parcel 3464871: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3464871.md
- Parcel 955312: 1,819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/955312.md
- Parcel 941293: 1,683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/941293.md
- Parcel 917311: 1,572 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/917311.md
- Parcel 948335: 1,493 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/948335.md
- Parcel 963309: 1,474 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/963309.md
- Parcel 5000665: 1,440 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000665.md
- Parcel 5347820: 995 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5347820.md
- Parcel 895096: 781 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/895096.md
- Parcel 2693063: 559 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693063.md
- Parcel 5000719: 388 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000719.md
- Parcel 4666945: 198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4666945.md
- Parcel 938314: 154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/938314.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knockanour 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)

4 applications, newest first.

- 4 Jul 2026, Mayo County Council 2660537: N/a. Permission. The construction of a single two-storey detached dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660537/0
- 10 Jun 2025, Mayo County Council 2560364: Conditional. Permission. planning permission for the installation of a proposed foul water pumping station, rising main, and all other associated site development works above and below ground level and all other development works as set out in the planning application documentation. All services connections are to existing services on the public road. All of the above is proposed at Horkans Garden Centre, Turlough Rd, Turlough (Turlach) TD. and Knockanour TD., Castlebar, Co. Mayo.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560364/0
- 14 Sept 2022, Mayo County Council 22786: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, RELOCATION OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, NEW TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS TO INCLUDE HORSE STABLES, STORAGE AREAS, EXERCISE RING INCLUDING EXTERNAL SAND ARENA, PADDOCKS AND ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22786/0
- 29 Oct 2020, Mayo County Council 20806: Conditional. Permission. EXTENSION TO EXISTING KITCHEN AND DINING FACILITIES AT THE GARDEN CENTRE, TOGETHER WITH A NEW HORTICULTURAL COVERED STRUCTURE OVER EXISTING OUT DOOR PLANT CENTRE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20806/0

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## 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 Knockanour.

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

- MA070-148001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA070-148001-. In pasture, located on the top of a prominent knoll, with a steep fall of ground at E, S and W. The base of the knoll on the S side has been scarped where a roughly E-W road lies. The location provides good views in all directions. Raised circular area (int. dims. 29m N−S; 27m E−W) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone, which has a steep external slope (H 2m at N), but is very low internally. The bank is topped by clearly defined wall footings (Wth c. 0.5m). The enclosing bank is best preserved on the W half, but it less clearly defined on the E half, and has been broken down at E. There is a possible fosse, evident as a shallow depression (Wth 1m), outside the inner bank at NW−N, with a low external stone bank (H 0.5m) of stone. There is possible rectangular house (MA070-148002-) in the SW quadrant of the interior. Immediately to N, there is a roughly trapezoidal depression (c. 5m N−S; 5m E−W at S, c. 3m at N; D 0.5m). To W of this, there is poorly defined rectangular feature (6m E−W; 3m N−S), open to E. In the E half of the interior there is a mound of loose stone, most likely the result of relatively recent field clearance activity. The perimeter and interior of the rath are covered in overgrowth. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 January 2018
- MA070-148002: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA070-148002-. Located in the SW quadrant of a rath (MA070-148001-). This consists of a roughly rectangular area (6m E−W; 3m N−S) bordered on the S, W and N sides by a low stony rise/possible wall (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.3m); it is open on the E side. Immediately to N, there is a roughly trapezoidal depression (c. 5m N−S; 5m E−W at S, c. 3m at N; D 0.5m). To W of that, there is poorly defined rectangular feature (6m E−W; 3m N−S). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 January 2018

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)

- Bridge, 1700–1838, Regional interest, registry number 31307017, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31307017. Three-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Bypassed, 1990. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or semi-coursed rubble limestone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (south-west) elevation having domed pyramidal capping with lichen-covered rounded coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning Castlebar River with unkempt banks to river.

## 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 Knockanour, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_368, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_368.zip (ZIP).
- 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/knockanour.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockanour.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockanour.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Knockanour 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)

- Capparanny: https://everytownland.com/mayo/capparanny.md
- Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowkeel-150670.md
- Drumdaff: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumdaff.md
- Gortnafolla: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortnafolla.md
- Turlough: https://everytownland.com/mayo/turlough-153181.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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