Knocknacroagha

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknacroagha, from 51 m² to 150,525 m² (15.05 ha, 37.2 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knocknacroagha 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.

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a granny flat/ annex building together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560549

• 23 Dec 2022Conditional

  construction of a machinery shed/store and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 221177

• 24 Jun 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A MACHINERY SHED/STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22523

• 26 Apr 2017Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY WC AND STORE ROOM, PERMISSION FOR 2 STOREY GABLE EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING NEW 1ST FLOOR WINDOWS AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, NEW RECESSED ENTRANCE NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17299

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 Knocknacroagha.

Recorded monuments

• MA118-017 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Shown on all eds of OS map as 'Gallows Fort' (est. max. diam. c. 38m). Levelled; no visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 468. Date of upload: 11 November 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_377 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Knocknacroagha · Cnoc na Cruaiche

Area

1,532,288 m² (153.23 ha, 378.64 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinrobe, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Hollymount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hollymount electoral division: 867 people in 303 households; 87% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteeaun, Cahernacreevy, Cappacurry, Carrowmore, Cloonerneen, Cregduff, Rathnaguppaun

Placenames

Knocknacroagha 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.