Knocksaxon

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocksaxon, from 59 m² to 162,414 m² (16.24 ha, 40.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Knocksaxon 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.

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  Planning permission 1) for the demolition of existing domestic shed, 2) extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, 3) new site entrance 4) new wastewater treatment system and 5) to carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560122

• 4 Aug 2022Conditional

  RETAIN CHANGES TO DWELLING HOUSE AND THE DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P99/2825 AND P01/2601 AND TO COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF P01/2601

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22655

• 27 Nov 2020Conditional

  RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING COTTAGE, INSTALL AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20921

• 12 Mar 2018Conditional

  2 NO. FOREST ROAD ACCESS'S WITH ASSOCIATED TURNING HEADS AND SECURITY GATES INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18159

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 Knocksaxon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocksaxon.

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knocksaxon · Cnoc Sacsan

Area

2,231,555 m² (223.16 ha, 551.43 acres)

Civil parish

Templemore, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Bellavary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellavary electoral division: 1,084 people in 399 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalusky, Ara, Carrownaraha, Cregg, Danganmore, Drunganagh East, Keeloges New, Lissaniska

Placenames

Knocksaxon 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.