Knockanroe
Knockanroe is a townland in the civil parish of Tagheen, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Cnocán Rua.
- Area
- 25.2 ha
- 62 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 55,776 m² (5.58 ha, 13.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanroe, from 12,442 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres) to 79,421 m² (7.94 ha, 19.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockanroe 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 May 2025Conditional
The habitat restoration works along approx. 800 meters of river will involve the construction of low level deflectors, the creation of pools and the addition of random boulders and spawning gravel. Livestock access to the river will be closed by the erection of fencing, and alternative water supply provided.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560308
9 May 2025N/a
The habitat restoration works along approx. 800 meters of river will involve the construction of low level deflectors, the creation of pools and the addition of random boulders and spawning gravel. Livestock access to the river will be closed by the erection of fencing, and alternative water supply provided.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560284
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockanroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockanroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockanroe.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knockanroe, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockanroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knockanroe · An Cnocán Rua
- Area
- 251,516 m² (25.15 ha, 62.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Tagheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 187 people lived in 69 households in the Tagheen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belladaff, Garravlagh
- Placenames
- Knockanroe 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.