Knockbreaga
Knockbreaga is a townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Bréige.
- Area
- 59.4 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 3,307 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbreaga, from 43 m² to 57,712 m² (5.77 ha, 14.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Knockbreaga 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
13 Jun 2025Conditional
construction of a single storey front entrance porch and all ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25237
11 Sept 2024Conditional
The erection of a single storey dwelling upon permitted foundation and site development works (Ref: P23/60249) which replaced pre-existing and subsequently demolished Dwelling; A new domestic wastewater water treatment system (replacing pre-existing system); Revised vehicular access point; and, Ancillary services above and below ground on this site.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460570
9 Jun 2024Refused
.The erection of a single storey Dwelling upon permitted foundation and site development works (Ref: P23/60249) which replaced pre-existing and subsequently demolished Dwelling; A new domestic wastewater water treatment system (replacing pre-existing system); Revised vehicular access point; and, Ancillary services above and below ground on this site.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460349
12 Feb 2024N/a
Construct a replacement house with wastewater treatment system, use of existing access and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460046
20 Jul 2023Refused
Construct a new house, access road, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site development works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360293
28 Jun 2023Conditional
Retain site clearance and enabling works including the provision of foundations
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360249
22 Jun 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT TANK AND ANCILLARIES ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20403
25 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18837
29 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION/SUN ROOM TO THE FRONT OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18392
7 Nov 2017Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17887
3 Nov 2017Conditional
ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17872
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 Knockbreaga.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbreaga.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbreaga.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbreaga.
- 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 Knockbreaga with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knockbreaga · Cnoc Bréige
- Area
- 594,325 m² (59.43 ha, 146.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burrishoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Newport West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 799 people lived in 290 households in the Newport West electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carheenbrack, Carrowbeg (Fergus), Carrowsallagh, Knockloughra, Meennacloghfinny, Roskeen North
- Placenames
- Knockbreaga 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.