Knocks

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocks, from 392 m² to 133,621 m² (13.36 ha, 33.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Knocks 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.

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  1. renovation and extension of an existing house including construction of a new sewage treatment system and connection to services. 2. permission for the siting of a temporary caravan and temporary connection to site services for security and accommodation for the construction period. 3. permission for a new site entrance. and all associated site works at the above address

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560317

• 20 May 2025N/a

  1. renovation and extension of an existing house including construction of a new sewage treatment system and connection to services. 2. permission for the siting of a temporary caravan and temporary connection to site services for security and accommodation for the construction period. 3. permission for a new site entrance. and all associated site works at the above address

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560310

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: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocks.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocks, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Knocks, Killasser5 sales

Name

Knocks · Na Cnoca

Area

917,957 m² (91.8 ha, 226.83 acres)

Civil parish

Killasser, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Tumgesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 136 households in the Tumgesh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowliam More, Claddagh (Co. Sligo), Cloonainra, Knockbrack (Co. Sligo), Knockmanagh, Knocknaskeagh, Tulleague

Placenames

Knocks 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.