Knockaraha West
Townland in the civil parish of Oughaval, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cnoc an Rátha Thiar
Parcel 4913331
- Area
- 3,583 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 189 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- P1 Agriculture (Westport Local Area Plan) The objective
- Townland
- Knockaraha West
Planning applications on this parcel
23 Jan 2023Conditional
The installation of approximately 15Km of 250mm OD water Trunk Main, which will extend from a position approximately 1Km from Westport at the junction of Pound Road and the R355 in the townland of Carrownalurgan to Kilsallagh Lower at the road junction between the R355 and the L1826 road to Drummin and the installation of approximately 29.3Km of a mains distribution network to supply water to 473 No Consumers along the route of the Trunk Main and in the area to the Townlands to the West of Croagh Patrick. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and any other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings. The watermain pipeline is located within the townlands of Cloghan, Clooneen, Knockfin, Ardoley, Churchfield, Knockaraha East, Knockaraha West, Streamstown, Belclare, Killadangan, Deerpark West, Murrisknaboll, Carrowkeeran, Bellataleen, Carrowkeel, Murrisk Demesne, Meermihil, Glaspatrick, Thornhill, Carrowmacloughlin, Leckanvy, Killsallagh Lower, Killsallagh Upper, Kinknock, Kilgeever, Cuilleen, Mullagh, Cartoor, Glenbaun, Glencally, Furgill, Cregganroe and Boheh in County Mayo.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360016
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_190 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 21.1 ha
- 52 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 3,054 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaraha West, from 35 m² to 68,272 m² (6.83 ha, 16.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1Agriculture
Westport Local Area Plan, Mayo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Jan 2023Conditional
The installation of approximately 15Km of 250mm OD water Trunk Main, which will extend from a position approximately 1Km from Westport at the junction of Pound Road and the R355 in the townland of Carrownalurgan to Kilsallagh Lower at the road junction between the R355 and the L1826 road to Drummin and the installation of approximately 29.3Km of a mains distribution network to supply water to 473 No Consumers along the route of the Trunk Main and in the area to the Townlands to the West of Croagh Patrick. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and any other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings. The watermain pipeline is located within the townlands of Cloghan, Clooneen, Knockfin, Ardoley, Churchfield, Knockaraha East, Knockaraha West, Streamstown, Belclare, Killadangan, Deerpark West, Murrisknaboll, Carrowkeeran, Bellataleen, Carrowkeel, Murrisk Demesne, Meermihil, Glaspatrick, Thornhill, Carrowmacloughlin, Leckanvy, Killsallagh Lower, Killsallagh Upper, Kinknock, Kilgeever, Cuilleen, Mullagh, Cartoor, Glenbaun, Glencally, Furgill, Cregganroe and Boheh in County Mayo.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360016
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockaraha West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockaraha West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaraha West.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_190 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockaraha West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knockaraha West · Cnoc an Rátha Thiar
- Area
- 211,166 m² (21.12 ha, 52.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Westport Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Westport Rural electoral division: 1,739 people in 619 households; 88% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belclare, Cloonagh, Knockaraha East, Streamstown
- Placenames
- Knockaraha West 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.