Knocksbarrett
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoremoy, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Na Cnoic
- Area
- 59.5 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 15,048 m² (1.5 ha, 3.72 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocksbarrett, from 479 m² to 203,872 m² (20.39 ha, 50.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1Agriculture
Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Apr 2019Conditional
1. Construct extension to existing dwelling house including all associated alterations to existing floor plans and elevations; 2. Install effluent treatment system with percolation area and 3. Carry out all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19291
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocksbarrett.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocksbarrett.
Architectural heritage
- Knocksbarrett, house, 1840–1896 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1896, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height gabled advanced end bay. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on gablet to window opening to half-dormer attic with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond buttressed chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below rendered capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on nail head-detailed purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls with vitrified blue brick-detailed red brick Running bond stringcourse. Camber-headed central door opening with drag edged tooled cut-limestone step threshold, and rendered surround having splayed reveals framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings (ground floor) or red brick block-and-start surrounds (half-dormer attic) supporting dragged cut-limestone lintels framing two-over-two timber sash windows having horizontal glazing bars. Interior including (ground floor): entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered panelled chamfered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting looped wrought iron double gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_366 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knocksbarrett with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knocksbarrett · Na Cnoic
- Area
- 594,992 m² (59.5 ha, 147.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoremoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Ballina Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballina Rural electoral division: 3,199 people in 1,095 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloontykillew, Coolcran, Croftonpark, Gorteen, Knockegan and Cloonagh Beg, Raish
- Placenames
- Knocksbarrett 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.