# Knockfin, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Oughaval, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cnoc Finn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 391,338 m² (39.13 ha, 96.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,255 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 Agriculture, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Oughaval, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/oughaval.md - Barony: Murrisk - Electoral division: Westport Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,739 people lived in 619 households in the Westport Rural electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37587 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152202 - Centre: latitude 53.78354, longitude -9.549907 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfin, from 112 m² to 49,792 m² (4.98 ha, 12.3 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4739409: 49,792 m² (4.98 ha, 12.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4739409.md - Parcel 890958: 45,431 m² (4.54 ha, 11.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890958.md - Parcel 898999: 42,755 m² (4.28 ha, 10.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/898999.md - Parcel 992965: 37,990 m² (3.8 ha, 9.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/992965.md - Parcel 1009384: 30,083 m² (3.01 ha, 7.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009384.md - Parcel 893800: 29,249 m² (2.92 ha, 7.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893800.md - Parcel 986201: 20,355 m² (2.04 ha, 5.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986201.md - Parcel 1004507: 20,141 m² (2.01 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004507.md - Parcel 874702: 13,523 m² (1.35 ha, 3.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874702.md - Parcel 4693207: 11,895 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4693207.md - Parcel 3466267: 9,257 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3466267.md - Parcel 871102: 7,454 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/871102.md - Parcel 3766415: 7,229 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766415.md - Parcel 4739462: 6,216 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4739462.md - Parcel 952028: 5,762 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/952028.md - Parcel 1012306: 4,972 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012306.md - Parcel 894590: 4,783 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894590.md - Parcel 5207886: 4,404 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5207886.md - Parcel 880021: 4,106 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/880021.md - Parcel 5327716: 3,977 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5327716.md - Parcel 3766413: 3,974 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766413.md - Parcel 5902137: 3,670 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5902137.md - Parcel 4739469: 3,448 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4739469.md - Parcel 875552: 3,321 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/875552.md - Parcel 5327730: 3,132 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5327730.md - Parcel 4739368: 2,947 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4739368.md - Parcel 3766315: 2,706 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766315.md - Parcel 3766311: 2,485 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766311.md - Parcel 894586: 1,781 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/894586.md - Parcel 906132: 1,776 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/906132.md - Parcel 5312095: 1,282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5312095.md - Parcel 3766289: 710 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3766289.md - Parcel 5939610: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5939610.md - Parcel 4715560: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4715560.md - Parcel 872787: 194 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/872787.md - Parcel 4752113: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4752113.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 Agriculture: Westport Local Area Plan, Mayo; 39 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.mayo.ie/getmedia/8d3ff0c0-df51-485b-9718-76b494dd7edd/Westport-Local-Area-Plan-2024-2030.pdf#page=108 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 4 Mar 2024, Mayo County Council 2460096: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Planning Permission to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage & effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460096/0 - 6 Mar 2023, Mayo County Council 23114: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/23114/0 - 23 Jan 2023, Mayo County Council 2360016: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. The installation of approximately 15Km of 250mm OD water Trunk Main, which will extend from a position approximately 1Km from Westport at the junction of Pound Road and the R355 in the townland of Carrownalurgan to Kilsallagh Lower at the road junction between the R355 and the L1826 road to Drummin and the installation of approximately 29.3Km of a mains distribution network to supply water to 473 No Consumers along the route of the Trunk Main and in the area to the Townlands to the West of Croagh Patrick. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and any other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings. The watermain pipeline is located within the townlands of Cloghan, Clooneen, Knockfin, Ardoley, Churchfield, Knockaraha East, Knockaraha West, Streamstown, Belclare, Killadangan, Deerpark West, Murrisknaboll, Carrowkeeran, Bellataleen, Carrowkeel, Murrisk Demesne, Meermihil, Glaspatrick, Thornhill, Carrowmacloughlin, Leckanvy, Killsallagh Lower, Killsallagh Upper, Kinknock, Kilgeever, Cuilleen, Mullagh, Cartoor, Glenbaun, Glencally, Furgill, Cregganroe and Boheh in County Mayo.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360016/0 - 8 Aug 2022, Mayo County Council 22672: Conditional. Permission. DEMOLISH SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCT TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22672/0 - 14 Dec 2020, Mayo County Council 20982: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20982/0 - 2 Nov 2020, Mayo County Council 20827: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20827/0 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 Knockfin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA088-086001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA088-086001-. 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. - MA088-086002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA088-086002-. 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. - MA088-087: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA088-087----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockfin. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knockfin, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_190, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_190.zip (ZIP). - 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/knockfin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockfin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockfin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockfin 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) - Ardoley: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ardoley.md - Clerhaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/clerhaun.md - Cloghan: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloghan.md - Clooneen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/clooneen-150966.md - Farnaght: https://everytownland.com/mayo/farnaght.md - Streamstown: https://everytownland.com/mayo/streamstown-152988.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/knockfin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/knockfin