Knockshanbally

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockshanbally, from 108 m² to 79,938 m² (7.99 ha, 19.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Knockshanbally 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 Aug 2024Conditional

  full planning permission for the following: Proposed Change of house type from previous planning reference 21/904, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460521

• 8 Aug 2022Conditional

  RETENTION OF MINOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE P07/2316, CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22666

• 29 Jul 2022Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE ON SITE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22647

• 22 Jun 2022Conditional

  Construction of new dwelling house and domestic garage with wastewater treatment system along with all necessary site works and ancillaries

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22497

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT REPLACEMENT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21904

• 2 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19685

• 1 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19135

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

• MA070-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on a low drumlin from where the ground falls most steeply towards the E and the N-flowing Strade River c. 230m to the E. An outbuilding stands c. 10m to the ESE and there is a dwelling house c. 35m to the NE. A roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 30m) is defined by an inner scarp which is lowest (ext. H 0.2m) from ESE-S-SW but much higher (ext. H 1.5-2m) elsewhere. Remains of a fosse (Wth 3m) enclosing the scarp survive along the N and the line of the fosse is traceable as a wide berm (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 0.5m) from SW-W-NW. An overgrown outer earthen bank (int. H 0.5m over base of fosse; Wth 2.5m; ext. H 1.7m) survives along the N, outside the surviving section of fosse. A later earthen field boundary runs N-S subdividing the interior into a western third and an eastern two-thirds. The W portion of the interior is rough and slightly uneven underfoot while the larger, eastern portion is generally level and under grass. Date of visit: 16-04-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

• MA070-064 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  In pasture on a very gentle W-facing slope c. 80m to the W of the foot of a N-S ridge. First recorded by Rynne in 1954 (1959, 26-7) who noted the local tradition of the site being known as a ‘Giant’s Grave’. He described a low ‘pear-shaped’ cairn (L c. 12m E-W; max. Wth c.7m; H c. 1m) of small stones, some recently added as a result of field clearance and observed ‘several large flagstones’ protruding above the cairn stones, an in situ capstone towards the W with a second possible capstone close by, on the edge of the cairn. The monument was subsequently inspected by the Megalithic Survey (de Valera and Ó Nualláin, 1964, 75: Fig. 45. Plate 33) which commented that, since Rynne’s visit, the site had been enclosed by a shallow fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 0.3-0.9m) and a low outer bank (H 0.4m; Wth 0.5-1.5m) ‘to delimit the monument which was at the time in danger of destruction’ and was ‘much obscured by the dumping of field stones’. The dumping had ‘greatly obscured the site’ and several stones noted previously by Rynne were no longer visible and only small portions of others were still exposed.  Two stones roughly aligned E-W were interpreted as representing the N side of a gallery (east stone L 0.6m; Wth 0.3m; H 0.20m; west stone L 1m; H 0.25m) and a short distance (L 0.5m) to their W, the edge of a prostrate slab, a possible capstone was visible (L 1m; min Wth 0.7m; T 0.1m). No orthostats of the south side of the gallery were visible. Roughly parallel to the line of the N side of the chamber, and c. 1m to N, four stones were thought to represent an outer-wall. The conclusion was that in its obscured condition, the site would have remained unclassifiable, however, given Rynne’s previous account, and notwithstanding difficulties in exact correlation of his details with the remains visible, the monument was accepted as a wedge tomb. When inspected in October, 2025, the monument was found to survive but grass, fern, nettle, briar and whitethorn growth obscured most of the detail previously recorded.   This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 7/1957).  Date of visit: 24-10-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

• MA070-228 Burnt mound
  Description

  In garden of modern house, located close to a stream. A concentration of burnt stones and charcoal fragments were noted when a pit was dug for tree-planting in the garden of a newly-constructed house. The landowner notified an archaeologist who examined the site and confirmed the archaeological significance of the remains. No above ground evidence of a mound was visible and the full extent of the burnt material could not be determined. The pit was backfilled and the location is now under lawn. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14th January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockshanbally · Cnoc an tSeanbhaile

Area

1,182,975 m² (118.3 ha, 292.32 acres)

Civil parish

Templemore, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Strade, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Strade electoral division: 647 people in 239 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonconlan, Gurraunard, Knockafall, Knockagarraun, Knocknakillew, Longfield, Strade

Placenames

Knockshanbally 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.