Knockysprickaun

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockysprickaun, from 68 m² to 47,736 m² (4.77 ha, 11.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Knockysprickaun 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.

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DORMER DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED INTERNAL ALTERATIONS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22213

• 20 Jan 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCT A MACHINERY/STORAGE SHED TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2016

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  CHANGE OF DESIGN OF ART STUDIO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P09/602 ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17485

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 Knockysprickaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA077-009 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1895–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built 1900[?]; occupied 1901, on a symmetrical plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves[?] retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement fixed-pane uPVC fittings. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with trefoil-detailed cast-iron railings to perimeter centred on cast-iron gate.

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 Knockysprickaun.

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

Name

Knockysprickaun · Cnoc an Spriocáin

Area

525,784 m² (52.58 ha, 129.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeena, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Kilmeena, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmeena electoral division: 1,616 people in 558 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buckfield, Carrowbeg, Clooneen, Knockychottaun, Moyna

Placenames

Knockysprickaun 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.