Knockauncarragh

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockauncarragh, from 11 m² to 1,833,857 m² (183.39 ha, 453.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Knockauncarragh 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 Dec 2023Conditional

  of: (a) changes to dwelling house, (b) relocation of septic tank and percolation area to that previously approved under planning ref. no. 08/2049 and all associated site services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361445

• 14 Mar 2023N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2395

• 9 Oct 2022N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 205.20sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261005

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  for a shed and also to retain a previously permitted dwelling house on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 43.65 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191965

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  permission for dwelling house on revised site boundaries, previous Planning Ref. No. 04/4050. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 174 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19368

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
• Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Aughty Bog NHA 001229

Recorded monuments

• GA125-074 Standing stone
  Description

  On the S end of a ridge in the Slieve Aughty mountains. Indicated and named 'Stone' in Roman script on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this standing stone consists of an irregular conglomerate slab of pink granite and white quartz (H 1.55m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.5m) aligned NE-SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockauncarragh, about 1 in 20 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 Knockauncarragh.

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

Name

Knockauncarragh · An Cnocán Carrach

Area

2,958,111 m² (295.81 ha, 730.97 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Woodford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

468 people lived in 194 households in the Woodford electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alleendarra East, Alleendarra West, Commons East, Drumminnamuckla North, Laughil, Woodford

Placenames

Knockauncarragh 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.