Knockbrack
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmovee, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cnoc Breac
- Area
- 51.4 ha
- 127 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 3,478 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 149 m² to 116,662 m² (11.67 ha, 28.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Jul 2026Refused
Planning Permission to retain extension to existing garage and Planning Permission to lower wall and removed palisade fencing in order to improved sightlines visibility and to install bollards to the front of the building so there is a single entry and exit point all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660544
12 Mar 2021Conditional
RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR 1. ALTERATIONS TO LAYOUT AND ELEVATIONS OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P86/105, INCLUDING CONVERSION OF INTEGRATED GARAGE TO ACCOMMODATION SPACE AND FITTING OF GLAZING TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE TO CREATE AN ENCLOSED PORCH AND 2. RETENTION OF CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC SHEDS ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21217
9 Apr 2018Conditional
RETAIN CHANGE OF USE FROM WORKSHOP TO EXISTING OFFICES (131sqm) RETAIN A FRONT EXTENSION , A MANUFACTURING EXTENSION TO SIDE AND 2 NO. MANUFACTURING EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING OFFICES (TOTAL 691sqm) CONSTRUCT NEW OFFICE BUILDING TO FRONT AND CONNECT TO EXISTING OFFICES (442sqm) TO CONSTRUCT NEW STORAGE UNIT EXTENSION TO SIDE OF MANUFACTURING UNITS (340sqm) CONSTRUCT NEW SEPARATE POWDER COATING UNIT TO REAR OF SITE (414sqm). DISPLAY SIGNAGE ON FRONT OF BUILDING . TO ERECT A 2.5m HIGH SECURITY GATE AND FENCE TO THE SIDE AND REAR BOUNDARIES AND CONSTRUCT A FRONT BOUNDARY STONE WALL. TO REMOVE PORTACABIN OFFICE TO FRONT. TO REMOVE AND LEVEL EARTH MOUND TO FRONT OF SITE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18240
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 Knockbrack.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbrack.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac
- Area
- 513,616 m² (51.36 ha, 126.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmovee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Kilkelly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkelly electoral division: 961 people in 382 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gowlaun, Kilkelly, Shammerbaun
- 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.