Knockbrack

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 1,038 m² to 180,073 m² (18.01 ha, 44.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockbrack 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.

• 25 May 2026N/a

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/shed, and domestic waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26113

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission for development consisting of construction of new milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, calf shed, slatted cubicle shed and underground slurry storage tanks along with all associated site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460033

• 6 May 2020Conditional

  EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FOR THE PROPOSED N5 WESTPORT TO TURLOUGH ROAD AND TO REPLACE THE MATERIALS WITH INERT FILL FROM THE AFOREMENTIONED PROJECT (SURPLUS INERT SOIL AND SUBSOIL) ON A 2.2 HECTARE SITE.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20299

• 4 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SLATTED SHED AND CONCRETE YARD TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, P06/3858 REFERS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17250

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

• MA077-028 Crannog
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA088-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a gentle rise. This rath, originally more than likely circular in plan, now consists of a D-shaped area (25.6m NE-SW; 22.8m NW-SE) defined on the curving side at SW–ESW by a compact, round-topped earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1-1.2m; ext. H 1.7-2m), outside which at SW–NE there is a fosse (Wth 3.4m) with an external bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.8m). The rath was truncated in the 19th century by two roads: It is truncated on the straight side to S by the main Westport-Castlebar road (N5), and it is defined here now by a linear scarp/hedgerow; a narrow by-road, on a NNW-SSE axis, which intersects with the main road, truncates the fosse and outer bank on the E side, and a scarp/hedgerow (H 1m) now intervenes between the inner bank and the by-road. According to local information, there is a souterrain (MA088-020001-) in the interior of the rath. The perimeter is thickly ringed with hawthorn and hazel trees, and long grass and brambles obscure much of the interior. In 2007 road widening works damaged a section of the fosse on the E side of the rath. The works were halted. In 2008 mitigation works were undertaken under archaeological supervision (08E00303) (Morahan 2008 Knockbrack, Mayo https://excavations.ie/report/2008/Mayo/0019931/). The exposed portion of the fosse was archaeologically recorded/photographed. A foundation trench for a roadside stone wall was excavated by hand, but produced no archaeological features. A trench (L 7m) was cut for drainage purposes across the minor road. A layer of burned or baked clay (1.9m N–S; D 0.8m) was revealed within the trench. Some stone from the upper 0.15m appeared to be heavily burnt sandstone, but the remaining material appeared as grey sandy gravel and generally small stones. This feature was cut into the yellow/orange daub, but contained no objects or datable material. It seems likely that it represents part of a fosse, which might have formed part of a conjoined element to the rath (Morahan 2008: 917 Knockbrack, Mayo https://excavations.ie/report/2008/Mayo/0019931/). In 2008 archaeological testing (08E0849) was carried out in an area to W of the rath in advance of pipe-laying for a group water scheme. No archaeological finds, features or deposits were uncovered during the course of testing (Guinan 2008:916 Knockbrack, Mayo https://excavations.ie/report/2008/Mayo/0019930/). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 June 2019

• MA088-020001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA088-020----). According to local information, there is a souterrain in the interior of the rath. There is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 June 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbrack.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbrack.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Knockbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

973,110 m² (97.31 ha, 240.46 acres)

Civil parish

Aghagower, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clogher electoral division: 948 people in 330 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bullaunmeneen, Cogaula, Doon, Kilbree Lower

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.