Knockmore Eighter

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmore Eighter, from 1,918 m² to 78,844 m² (7.88 ha, 19.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockmore Eighter 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.

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  Proposed dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460052

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 Knockmore Eighter.

Recorded monuments

• MA079-108 Church
  Description

  Located in a thicket of overgrowth, in the SE corner of a modern field. Ruined rectangular, stone-built structure (c. 9-10m ENE-WSW; c. 4-4.5m NNW-SSE), built in 19th-century for use as a church. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 July 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockmore Eighter, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Knockmore Eighter · An Cnoc Mór Íochtair

Area

446,250 m² (44.63 ha, 110.27 acres)

Civil parish

Manulla, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Manulla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

991 people lived in 349 households in the Manulla electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creaghanboy, Curryeallaun, Knockmore Oughter, Manulla, Skiddernagh

Placenames

Knockmore Eighter 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.