Trouthill or Knockbrack
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeagh, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cnoc Breac
- Area
- 80.4 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 20,242 m² (2.02 ha, 5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Trouthill or Knockbrack, from 864 m² to 140,990 m² (14.1 ha, 34.84 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
No zone of a development plan covers Trouthill or Knockbrack 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Dec 2025Conditional
retention permission for an existing dwelling house as constructed, along with planning permission for alterations and extension to same, new septic tank treatment system along with all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25518
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- MA062-074 Enclosure
Description
In the SE corner of a pasture field, located on an island of gently elevated ground surrounded by poorly drained or boggy land. Shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure (max. dim. c. 20m), with a farmstead/cluster of vernacular buildings immediately to E. A very slight rise is evident in this part of the field, but otherwise there is no visible trace of the enclosure at ground level. The field is bordered on the S by an old E−W road/farm track, which may clip or overlie the S edge of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 December 2020
- MA062-134 Enclosure
Description
In improved pasture, located on the broad, undulating top of a ridge, providing good views over surrounding grassland and flat expanses of bog. The Sonnagh River skirts the base of the ridge, c. 180m to SW. This possible rath is shown on the 1837 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It enclosure has been levelled; there is no visible trace at ground level. It may have contained a souterrain (MA062-134001-). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 January 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Trouthill or Knockbrack.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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_746 (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 Trouthill or Knockbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Trouthill or Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac
- Area
- 804,088 m² (80.41 ha, 198.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Sonnagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Sonnagh electoral division: 1,242 people in 457 households; 76% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartron, Killeen, Mullenmadoge, Tomboholla
- Placenames
- Trouthill or Knockbrack 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.