Knockauncoura

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockauncoura, from 89 m² to 57,816 m² (5.78 ha, 14.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Knockauncoura 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.

• 18 Dec 2023Conditional

  for the demolition of existing dwelling house ruin and the construction of a new Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 147.60sqm (house) & 42sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 50.40sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361523

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  for (a) changes to existing dwelling house which was granted planning permission under planning reference number 02/2398 (b) the construction of a fuel/storage store, (c) retain the dwelling house, garage, fuel store, septic tank, percolation area & all associated site services on revised site boundaries (d) planning permission to remove condition no. 10 from the grant of planning permission ref. no. 02/2398 which relates to an enurement clause

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360610

• 22 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works is; House 261.6 sqm & Garage 59.5 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211329

• 24 Nov 2020Conditional

  to add dormer windows to existing dwelling house.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201770

• 21 Jul 2020Conditional

  for upgrading and decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area to new proposed wastewater treatment system and soil polishing unit filter and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20985

• 12 Oct 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, sewage treatment plant system, domestic garage and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (house) 224 sqm, (garage) 49 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181442

• 16 Aug 2018N/a

  for the construction of a dwelling house, sewage treatment plant system, domestic garage and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 224 sqm. (garage) 49 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181170

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  of 1) an additional first floor study room, 2) a newly constructed chimney. Permission is also sought to remove the constraints of condition No. 9 of the previous grant of permission Ref. No. 01/4869 which restricts the sale of the dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained 12.25 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181060

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  for (a) Alterations to approved garage (increased height and window) and (b) Extension to garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained 72.5sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171847

• 24 Jul 2017N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment Plant system, domestic garage and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works House 224sqm, Garage 49.29sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171094

• 16 May 2017Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 324.4 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17687

• 5 May 2017Conditional

  for (1) Alterations to elevation's / window arrangement's, (2) Rear extension and rear balcony added, (3) Sunroom added to side of dwellinghouse, (4) Alterations to garage elevations / roof style (5) Entrance and driveway relocation, (6) Revised site boundaries and reduction in site area previously granted under pl ref no. 96/2482. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 230.8 sqm.)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17630

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 Knockauncoura.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-142 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1929 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1982 to be to be a disused sand pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_968 (ZIP).

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

Name

Knockauncoura · Cnocán Cobhra

Area

651,579 m² (65.16 ha, 161.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconickny, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilconickny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

678 people lived in 217 households in the Kilconickny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamucka, Cloonoo East, Cloonoo West, Conicar, Cuscarrick, Glenatallan, Raheen Eighter, Raheen Oughter, Tullagh Upper

Placenames

Knockauncoura 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.