Knockfree

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfree, from 18 m² to 88,838 m² (8.88 ha, 21.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Knockfree 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.

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  Construction of 1 no. dwelling house and septic tank with percolation area including all other ancillary site work and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22982

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
• Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA 004228
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin 000519

Recorded monuments

• MA039-001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  This holy well is named ‘Tobercummeen’ on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. This well is no longer in use and has been blocked up. According to local information, stations were held here in the past, and a sycamore tree, which stood adjacent to the well was used as a rag tree. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019

• MA039-002 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  Located adjacent to a modern farmstead. A mill is shown on the 1656-58 Down Survey Barony at roughly this location on the S bank of a tributary stream of the River Deel; on the 1838 OS 6-inch map an L-shaped building is indicated as a ‘Tuck & Corn Mill’. The mill building does not survive. According to local information, the traditional name for the area is ‘Baile an Muillin’, and ruins of the mill were still to be seen in the early part of the 20th century; it was said to have been used for milling oats. The millstream has been diverted from it original course. A millstone (Diam. 0.76m; T 0.07-0.1m) is located in the farmyard. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019

• MA039-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a SE-facing slope, giving good views NE–S–SW, with an expanse of lowlying pasture to SE. Sub-circular, raised area (diam. 22-25m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m at WSW) of earth and stones, incorporated into the line of a later field fence on the W arc. The enclosure is built up higher on the SE–S to compensate for the natural slope, and along this section the bank tops a scarped sloping, giving an overall external height of c. 2.3m. Remnants of stone facing on the exterior face of the bank may be a late feature. There is an eroded gap (Wth 0.6m) at ENE, but the location of the original entrance is not evident. The interior slopes gently down from NW to SE. The rath is engulfed in clumps of brambles, hawthorn bushes and ash trees. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_359 (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.

No address of the register names Knockfree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Knockfree · Cnoc Fraoigh

Area

1,322,116 m² (132.21 ha, 326.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbelfad, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh electoral division: 365 people in 131 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Cloonacauna, Clooneigh, Cloontally, Deelcastle, Garrycloonagh, Grange, Wherrew

Placenames

Knockfree 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.