# Knockaunacat, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Bekan, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cnocán na gCat. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 444,346 m² (44.43 ha, 109.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,108 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Bekan, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/bekan.md - Barony: Costello - Electoral division: Bekan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Bekan electoral division: 776 people in 281 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% 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/36097 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152169 - Centre: latitude 53.763933, longitude -8.828475 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaunacat, from 1,157 m² to 50,142 m² (5.01 ha, 12.39 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 963699: 50,142 m² (5.01 ha, 12.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963699.md - Parcel 1003093: 45,091 m² (4.51 ha, 11.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003093.md - Parcel 1011855: 43,172 m² (4.32 ha, 10.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011855.md - Parcel 980219: 42,305 m² (4.23 ha, 10.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980219.md - Parcel 933809: 36,752 m² (3.68 ha, 9.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933809.md - Parcel 888926: 31,333 m² (3.13 ha, 7.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888926.md - Parcel 984927: 30,343 m² (3.03 ha, 7.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984927.md - Parcel 940244: 22,044 m² (2.2 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940244.md - Parcel 944145: 19,520 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/944145.md - Parcel 904560: 18,791 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904560.md - Parcel 4821092: 18,359 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4821092.md - Parcel 938645: 15,187 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938645.md - Parcel 887843: 15,108 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/887843.md - Parcel 872678: 12,272 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/872678.md - Parcel 890844: 10,074 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890844.md - Parcel 982595: 9,785 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/982595.md - Parcel 4888795: 5,045 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4888795.md - Parcel 900920: 4,239 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900920.md - Parcel 902389: 3,388 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/902389.md - Parcel 898168: 2,893 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898168.md - Parcel 1011562: 2,422 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011562.md - Parcel 3786287: 1,514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3786287.md - Parcel 902233: 1,397 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/902233.md - Parcel 901769: 1,373 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/901769.md - Parcel 921325: 1,157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/921325.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockaunacat 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) 8 applications, newest first. - 17 Jul 2025, Mayo County Council 25280: N/a. Permission. Section 5 Declaration: permenent relocation of the treated effluent discharge point approved under P21/859. the discharge point to be relocated 350m upstream from its current location. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25280/0 - 18 Dec 2024, Mayo County Council 24530: N/a. Permission. construction of a pedestrian underpass tunnel to run under the Knock Road (R323) and for the construction of two enclosed access stairways to the underpass, together with all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/24530/0 - 24 Jan 2024, Mayo County Council 2412: N/a. Permission. construction of a pedestrian underpass tunnel to run under the Knock road (R323) and for the construction of two enclosed access stairways to the underpass, together with all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2412/0 - 4 Jul 2023, Mayo County Council 2360259: Conditional. Permission. Laying of a 150mm diameter Underground Discharge Pipe, 5.2km in length, containing fully-treated effluent from Existing Factory at Western Brand Chickens, Knockaunacat to the Existing Fully-Licensed Above-Ground Effluent Balance Tanks at Drumbaun and final discharge pipe to the Dalgan River located at Cloonbullig. The proposed discharge pipe passes along the public road through the townlands of Knockaunacat, Erriff, Derrymore, Bohogerawer, Gorteen, Hazelhill, Cloonbullig and Drumbaun together with all ancillary site works and services at the above addresses. The proposed pipe shall replace the transporting of the fully-treated effluent from Western Brand Chickens, Knockaunacat to the Full-Licensed Above-Ground Effluent Balance Tanks at Drumbaun by Tanker Trucks as per granted under Planning permission P21/869.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360259/0 - 19 Dec 2022, Mayo County Council 221117: N/a. Permission. SECTION 5 DECLARATION: ERECTION OF ROOF MOUNTED SOLAR PV PANELS TO THE ROOF OF THE FACTORY. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/221117/0 - 29 Aug 2022, Mayo County Council 22733: Conditional. Permission. THE INSTALLATION OF ROOF MOUNTED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) PANEL ARRAYS WITH A COMBINED AREA OF UP TO 5320 SQM PROVIDING UP TO 970kW. THE PV PANELS TO BE MOUNTED ON AND PARALLEL TO THE PITCH OF THE EXISTING ROOFS OF THE FACTORY BUILDING AND THE COLDSTORE BUILDING. THE DEVELOPMENT TO INCLUDE ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. THE DEVELOPMENT RELATES TO A CURRENT INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS LICENCE (REF: P0831-02). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22733/0 - 12 Aug 2021, Mayo County Council 21869: Conditional. Permission. INSTALLATION OF A 750 CUBIC METER ABOVE GROUND TANK TO STORE FULLY TREATED EFFLUENT PRIOR TO FINAL DISPOSAL, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. THE DEVELOPMENT RELATES TO A CURRENT INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS LICENCE (REF: P0831-02). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/21869/0 - 14 Dec 2020, Mayo County Council 20979: Refused. Permission. THE LAYING OF A 150MM DIAMETER UNDERGROUND DISCHARGE PIPE 3.5KM IN LENGTH FROM EXISTING FACTORY IN KNOCKAUNACAT TO PROPOSED OUTFALL AT THE GWEESTION STREAM ANNAGH PASSING THROUGH TOWNLANDS OF KNOCKAUNACAT, DERRYMORE, ERRIFF, ISLAND AND ANNAGH, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20979/0 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 Knockaunacat. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockaunacat. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaunacat. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockaunacat. - 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/knockaunacat.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockaunacat.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockaunacat.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockaunacat 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) - Bekan: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bekan.md - Derrymore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derrymore-151463.md - Erriff: https://everytownland.com/mayo/erriff-151670.md - Greenwood: https://everytownland.com/mayo/greenwood.md - Lassanny: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lassanny.md - Turlough: https://everytownland.com/mayo/turlough-153182.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/knockaunacat - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/knockaunacat