Knockadrum

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockadrum, from 201 m² to 156,737 m² (15.67 ha, 38.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Knockadrum 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockadrum in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Knockadrum.

Recorded monuments

• GA125-068 Church
  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.

• GA125-068001 Bullaun stone (present location)
  Description

  Possibly associated with the medieval church (GA125-023001-). On initial inspection in September 1985, this large roughly worked subrectangular bullaun stone (L 0.6m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.45m) was located across the road from church (see GA125-022003- for original location). It was subsequently moved to its present location at the S side of entrance to St Joseph's Church. On re-inspection in July 2011, its off-centre basin (diam. 0.66m) was planted with flowers. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 January 2020 The following images has been uploaded: GA125-068001-_01.jpg view from NW GA125-068001-_03.jpg view prior to planting

• GA125-069 Church
  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

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c.1850, with gabled porches to front (north-west) elevation of both transepts, gabled windbreak entrance to gable-front, three-bay nave, single-bay transepts, shallow single-bay chancel, with single-bay sacristy to gable of latter. Pitched slate roofs with carved limestone crosses to gables. Pebbledash rendered walls with rendered plinth course, and with ashlar limestone corner buttresses to front elevation having plinths, cornices and stepped work above. Ashlar limestone walls to gables of transept porches. Lancet windows, triple-light to front and transept gables, with ashlar limestone surrounds, sloping sills and stained glass to nave. Pointed arch window openings to transept porches, having chamfered limestone surrounds and leaded stained glass windows with timber Y-tracery. Oculus with dressed limestone surround and stained glass to chancel gable. Pointed arch main doorway with ashlar limestone dressing, limestone step and threshold, and timber battened double-leaf door. Interior having timber gallery, stained glass to pointed arcade set in timber screen below. Render piers to crossing. Altar aedicule comprising fluted columns with pilaster responds supporting dentillated cornices to open-bed curvilinear pediment, columns supported on panelled plinths in turn standing on panelled walling. Altar has somewhat similar detailing comprising engaged columns, with panels between. Free-standing recent pyramidal bell tower, and calvary to grounds. Decorative cast-iron double-leaf gate to entrance, with carved limestone piers with moulded plinths and cornices, panelled faces and pyramidal caps, flanked by square-headed pedestrian entrances with similar cast-iron gates and moulded cornices, and flanking dressed limestone boundary walls. Bullaun stone to west of entrance.

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 Knockadrum, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockadrum · Cnoc Fhardroma

Area

566,353 m² (56.64 ha, 139.95 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Marblehill, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycorban, Ballynakill, Cartron South, Cregg, Cuilleendaeagh, Lecarrow North

Placenames

Knockadrum 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.