Knockroe

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 697 m² to 118,823 m² (11.88 ha, 29.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Knockroe 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 Dec 2024N/a

  for construction of a dwelling house, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and submitted to the planning authority in connection with the application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 136.15 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461729

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA115-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of Knockash. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 30m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The W half of the monument is obscured by overgrowth. The townland boundary wall cuts through the site at NE and SE. The inner bank is best preserved to the E of wall; only slight traces of the outer bank survive. The fosse was filled with water when inspected. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2018

• GA115-045 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in grassland. This children's burial ground consists of a roughly circular raised area (diam. 8m; H 0.4m) within which numerous stones marking graves project through the sod cover. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockroe · An Cnoc Rua

Area

740,693 m² (74.07 ha, 183.03 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenadeema, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Mountain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountain electoral division: 299 people in 106 households; 95% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock, Bellalegaun, Bookeen, Knockash, Tinageeragh

Placenames

Knockroe 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.