Knockshangarry

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockshangarry, from 4,747 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres) to 124,329 m² (12.43 ha, 30.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Knockshangarry 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.

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  for: lateral extension of the existing permitted quarry area (Plan File Ref. No. 46752) over an area of c.10.2 ha. area to a final floor level of c. 100 mOD; All related ancillary development and associated site works including processing (crushing and screening) and stockpiling of materials; provision of landscaped screening berm and all other related activities; Rehabilitation of the application area to natural habitat after uses following completion of extraction; The proposed development is within an overall application area of c. 24.7 hectares and is for a total period of 25 years. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560906

• 22 Jun 2022Conditional

  for partial demolition of existing dwelling, construction of single storey extension to south-west & north-west elevations, extension at first floor level to the rear (north-east elevation) , changes to existing dwelling elevations and ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 77.77 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 360.2 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 4.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22796

• 16 May 2019Conditional

  for the installation of a new effluent treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19735

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 Knockshangarry.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-109 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 15 July 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockshangarry, 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 Knockshangarry.

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

Name

Knockshangarry · Cnoc an tSeangharraí

Area

206,910 m² (20.69 ha, 51.13 acres)

Civil parish

Loughrea, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

898 people lived in 307 households in the Loughrea Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore, Knockadikeen, Knockshangarry, Moanmore

Placenames

Knockshangarry 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.