Knockroe

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockroe, from 87 m² to 239,554 m² (23.96 ha, 59.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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.

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  to construct a dwellinghouse, sewage treatment plant, percolation area, domestic shed and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661490

• 5 Apr 2022Conditional

  (a) the construction of a agricultural shed, (b) the construction of a domestic garage (c) to retain existing dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area (previously approved under planning reference no.01/1024), domestic garage, agricultural shed and all associated site services on revised site boundaries

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2260318

• 25 Feb 2022N/a

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor area of proposed works: 223.4sqm (dwelling house) and 45 sqm (domestic garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260163

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 Knockroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockroe.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knockroe, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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

1,067,703 m² (106.77 ha, 263.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconickny, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconickny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

678 people lived in 217 households in the Kilconickny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackgarden, Cartron, Derryhoyle Beg, Derryhoyle More, Knockroe Beg, Moycola, Saintclerans, Seefin, Srah

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.