# Knocks, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killasser, barony of Gallen, Co. Mayo; in Irish Na Cnoca. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 917,957 m² (91.8 ha, 226.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,118 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killasser, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/killasser.md - Barony: Gallen - Electoral division: Tumgesh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36835 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152261 - Centre: latitude 54.007601, longitude -8.903996 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocks, from 392 m² to 133,621 m² (13.36 ha, 33.02 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2558469: 133,621 m² (13.36 ha, 33.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2558469.md - Parcel 893583: 115,657 m² (11.57 ha, 28.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893583.md - Parcel 882297: 94,182 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/882297.md - Parcel 993146: 80,198 m² (8.02 ha, 19.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/993146.md - Parcel 910495: 46,304 m² (4.63 ha, 11.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910495.md - Parcel 5148953: 40,530 m² (4.05 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5148953.md - Parcel 933300: 26,601 m² (2.66 ha, 6.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933300.md - Parcel 917564: 26,293 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917564.md - Parcel 938115: 18,767 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938115.md - Parcel 955069: 17,787 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955069.md - Parcel 886368: 15,543 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886368.md - Parcel 955068: 14,938 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955068.md - Parcel 1533065: 14,642 m² (1.46 ha, 3.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1533065.md - Parcel 954878: 13,037 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/954878.md - Parcel 937796: 12,613 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937796.md - Parcel 955071: 12,329 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955071.md - Parcel 937819: 11,907 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937819.md - Parcel 937679: 11,097 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937679.md - Parcel 917566: 10,644 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917566.md - Parcel 917761: 9,796 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917761.md - Parcel 933402: 9,776 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933402.md - Parcel 955070: 8,579 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955070.md - Parcel 933394: 6,666 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933394.md - Parcel 954877: 6,552 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/954877.md - Parcel 917565: 6,479 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917565.md - Parcel 937645: 6,083 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937645.md - Parcel 5482873: 5,549 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5482873.md - Parcel 6068540: 1,920 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6068540.md - Parcel 894871: 1,890 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/894871.md - Parcel 5523381: 1,700 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5523381.md - Parcel 3787553: 1,486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3787553.md - Parcel 991886: 392 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/991886.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 22 May 2025, Mayo County Council 2560317: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560317/0 - 20 May 2025, Mayo County Council 2560310: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560310/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC, site code 002298, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002298 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocks. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocks. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knocks.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knocks.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knocks.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Knocks, Killasser: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/mayo/knocks-killasser.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowliam More: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowliam-more.md - Claddagh (Co. Sligo): https://everytownland.com/sligo/claddagh.md - Cloonainra: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonainra.md - Knockbrack (Co. Sligo): https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockbrack-200873.md - Knockmanagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockmanagh.md - Knocknaskeagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knocknaskeagh-152246.md - Tulleague: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tulleague.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knocks - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/knocks