Knocknagulshy

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagulshy, from 3,097 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) to 514,469 m² (51.45 ha, 127.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Knocknagulshy 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.

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 14 Oct 2022Conditional

  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, 22898

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 Knocknagulshy.

Recorded monuments

• MA110-050 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.

• MA117-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At SW base of ridge, in pasture. Roughly circular area (37m N-S; 41m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.2m), with shallow external fosse on E. Bank; topped with clearance and fence, levelled SE to SW. 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. 182.

• MA118-153 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, atop ridge. Sub-rectangular area (29m N-S; 24m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.3m) and external fosse (D 0.4m) N to S. Earthen field boundaries adjoin site on N and S. Bank, tree-lined. 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. 378. Date of upload: 3 February 2014

Architectural heritage

• Creagh House, farmyard complex, 1870–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, extant 1894, including (north-west): Detached three-bay single-storey coach house with half-attic. Hipped slate roof on collared timber construction with lichen-covered roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles terminating in terracotta finials, limestone ashlar buttressed chimney stack having corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls over coursed or snecked limestone construction with drag edged rock faced hammered limestone quoins to corners. Pair of camber-headed carriageways to left ground floor with drag edged rock faced hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Camber-headed door opening to right ground floor with drag edged rock faced hammered limestone block-and-start surround framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) including paired square-headed window openings (right) with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged rock faced hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds framing three-over-three timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Creagh House.

• Creagh House, steward's house, 1870–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey farm steward's house with half-dormer attic, extant 1894, on a symmetrical plan with three-bay single-storey rear (south-west) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Now disused. Hipped gabled slate roof centred on hipped slate roofs to window openings to half-dormer attic with clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on rendered base having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with drag edged rock faced hammered limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows centred on two-over-two timber sash windows (half-dormer attic). Set in courtyard in unkempt grounds shared with Creagh House.

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

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

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

Name

Knocknagulshy · Cnoc na Gailsí

Area

1,119,253 m² (111.93 ha, 276.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinrobe, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Ballinrobe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinrobe electoral division: 4,118 people in 1,517 households; 62% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonkerry, Creagh Demesne, Knocknakillew, Rathcarreen, Rathredmond

Placenames

Knocknagulshy 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.