Knockglass
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmaclasser, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cnoc Glas
- Area
- 80.5 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 3,355 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockglass, from 31 m² to 130,229 m² (13.02 ha, 32.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
No zone of a development plan covers Knockglass 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
22 May 2024Conditional
retain modular dwelling house and permission to upgrade septic tank to proprietary effluent treatment system together with associated site services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24189
18 Mar 2021Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WATER TANK, OUT BUILDING AND HAY SHED, CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21239
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 Knockglass.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockglass.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockglass.
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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockglass.
- 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 Knockglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knockglass · An Cnoc Glas
- Area
- 804,524 m² (80.45 ha, 198.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmaclasser, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Kilmaclasser, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmaclasser electoral division: 686 people in 230 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Knockglass 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.