Knocknageeha

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknageeha, from 1,160 m² to 285,847 m² (28.58 ha, 70.63 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 Knocknageeha 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.

• 7 Sept 2023Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23505

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21865

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mocorha Lough SAC 001536
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mocorha Lough 001536

Recorded monuments

• MA121-109 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on SE-facing slope. Marked on OS map (1929) as circular enclosure. Levelled; no visible surface traces. 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. 470. Date of upload: 12 January 2015

• MA121-110 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on N side of ridge with sharp incline to NE. Surrounded by dense overgrowth which may conceal the remains of a cairn. The monument consists of the remains of a gallery (L 5m), orientated roughly NE-SW. Entrance to gallery on E, marked by single jamb stone (H 1.2m). Displaced stone leaning against this may have been the opposite jamb. Three stones represent the N side of the gallery, and a single sidestone indicates the S side. The SW end is enclosed by a single stone now leaning outwards. Segmenting jamb (H 1m), divides the gallery into two chambers; front (L 2m), back (L 2.8m) (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1964, 86). 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. 2. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 5 December 2012

• MA121-112001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure. Bank levelled. Site represented by low earthen mound (diam. 35m E-W) with souterrain (MA121-112002-). 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. 181. Date of upload: 12 January 2015

• MA121-112002 Souterrain
  Description

  In ringfort (MA121-112001-). Two stone-built chambers connected by creepway, accessed through hole in roof of Chamber 2. Chamber 1 (L 4.7m; H 0.24m - 1.36m; Wth 1.3m), orientated E-W, capped by at least five lintels, contains infill at E end which may have been position of original entrance. At W end of S wall is lintelled doorway (H 0.6m; Wth 0.8m) leading to creepway (L 2.3m; H 0.6m; Wth 0.9m), orientated N-S. Sill stone entrance at S end leading to Chamber 2. Chamber 2 (L 9.6m; H 1.7m; Wth 1.5m), orientated E-W, has been dug into in parts. 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. 524. Date of upload: 12 January 2015

• MA121-114 Enclosure
  Description

  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.

• MA121-144 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure, and on the later 25 inch plan as a broadly oval enclosure (c. 55m NE-SW,; c. 45m NW-SE) bisected centrally by the townland boundary. Not shown on the 1929 OS 6-inch. 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. 377. Date of upload: 13 January 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Knocknageeha.

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 Knocknageeha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Knocknageeha · Cnoc na Gaoithe

Area

1,448,736 m² (144.87 ha, 357.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainebeg, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Houndswood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Houndswood electoral division: 659 people in 256 households; 86% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanabriscaun, Cornacartan, Cregnanagh, Cross East, Curraghbaun, Gortjordan, Houndswood Middle, Houndswood South, Kilkeeran, Kilmacduagh, Mocorha

Placenames

Knocknageeha 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.