Knockaloura East

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaloura East, from 388 m² to 218,421 m² (21.84 ha, 53.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Knockaloura East 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.

• 10 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct a children's playground, walking track complete with lighting, carparking facilities, full-size sports playing field including ball stop netting, match standard lighting to sports playing field, score board, spectator stand, Astro turf all weather playing field including practice wall & associated lighting, changing room facilities with gym. Full planning permission also sought to install a waste-water treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561645

• 13 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct a dairy, milking parlour, collection yard and cubicle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 600.7sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171490

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 Knockaloura East.

Recorded monuments

• GA030-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in rolling grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 22m, E-W 16m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present intermittently from E through S to SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from NW through N to NNE. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at NW. In N sector of the interior is a well-preserved circular house (D 5.4m) defined by a grassed-over bank of stone with opposing entrance gaps at E and W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA030-078001 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA030-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in hilly grassland. Well- preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W 36.5m, N-S 34m) defined by two stone-lined earthen banks and an intervening fosse. Well-defined entrance at SE. Within the interior is an oval-shaped hollow (L 7m), long axis running NW-SE, the remains of a possible souterrain. Immediately to SE are the grassed-over foundation lines of a square stone structure (L/Wth 4m), possibly a house. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SSE. Two ringforts (GA030-080----, GA030-081----) lie c. 100m and c. 200m to W respectively. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA030-079001 Souterrain
  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.

• GA030-079002 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA030-080 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Some 100m W of a ringfort (GA030-079----). Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 27m) defined by a drystone wall, overlain by a field wall from SE through S to SW. Gaps at ESE appear modern. A ringfort (GA030-081----) lies c. 100m to W The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA030-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Circa 100m W of a ringfort (GA030-081----). Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W 41m, N-S 39m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from SE through W to N and is overlain by a field wall from SE to SW. A scarp forms the enclosing element from N to SE. Traces of outer stone-facing survive at S. The fosse and outer bank are visible intermittently throughout. Within the interior is a subrectangular mound of earth and stone (N-S; L 7m, Wth 6m) with a central depression (D 2m), probably a house. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA030-081001 House - indeterminate date
  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.

• GA030-082 Enclosure
  Description

  On S-facing slope in reclaimed pastureland. According to local information, this is the site of a 'lios' which was levelled some years ago. What is visible is a slightly raised subcircular area (E-W 31.3m, N-S 29m) in the centre of which is a small low circular mound (D 11m, H 0.5m). The surviving morphology is reminiscent of a barrow. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA030-133 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (c. 72m E-W; c. 64m N-S) is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2014 and it is also faintly visible on OSi digitalglobe imagery (2011-2013). Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA030-133----_01.jpg Google Earth image (March 2014) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockaloura East, 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 Knockaloura East.

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

Name

Knockaloura East · Cnoc Mhaolobhra Thoir

Area

875,761 m² (87.58 ha, 216.41 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Carrowrevagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

485 people lived in 162 households in the Carrowrevagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamona, Brockagh, Carrowntanlis, Carrowroe West, Cartron, Drumbulcaun, Knockaloura West

Placenames

Knockaloura East 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.