Knockaun

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaun, from 59 m² to 118,189 m² (11.82 ha, 29.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Knockaun 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.

• 29 Jun 2024Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 217.70 sqm (house) & 51.50 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460806

• 16 Feb 2024Conditional

  to construct a three bay double sheep shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 212sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2458

• 10 Aug 2023Conditional

  for the following development: (a) to construct a dormer extension to the rear of an existing dormer dwelling (b) raise wall plate level of existing dwelling to provide for increased habitable accommodation at first floor level (c) elevational alterations to existing dwelling & (d) all associated external site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23321

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  for proposed domestic dwelling incl. domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 264.82 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212487

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 230 sqm, Garage 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211654

• 6 Jul 2021Conditional

  for a 3 bay double slatted shed, creep area, cattle crush, concrete apron plus retention planning for an existing yard entrance / access road & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 250sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211209

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 Knockaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA107-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 55m) defined by a bank and external fosse from SW through W to N. From N through E to SW the bank has been levelled and all that survives is degraded scarp. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2018

• GA107-124 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (41m NW-SE; 37.5m NE-SW) defined by a bank and external fosse. A field bank cuts through the enclosing elements from NE to SE, to E of which a vegetation band indicates the limits of the monument. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockaun, about 1 in 10 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 Knockaun.

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

Name

Knockaun · An Cnocán

Area

999,654 m² (99.97 ha, 247.02 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 162 households in the Abbeygormacan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeygormacan, Corbally (Hogan), Corbally Beg, Culnagore, Gortalough, Gortavoher, Gortknappagh, Walshtown

Placenames

Knockaun 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.