Fountainhill or Knockavilra

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fountainhill or Knockavilra, from 139 m² to 53,393 m² (5.34 ha, 13.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Fountainhill or Knockavilra 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.

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 188.80 sqm (house) & 28.60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461269

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  For development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360510

• 10 May 2018Conditional

  for the extension and refurbishment of the existing cottage to provide a four bedroom dwelling, comprising a new two storey extension to the east, single storey extension to the south, refurbishment of the existing cottage, installation of new treatment plant, percolation area and all associated services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 361 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 107 sqm., demolition 53sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18603

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Omey Island Machair SAC 001309
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Leagaun Machair 001289

Recorded monuments

• GA022-039 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On sandy pasture c. 25m NW of point where the td. boundary meets the shore. An unenclosed roughly rectangular area (L 17m, Wth 13.5m), within which small set stones are visible, some outlining small rectangular grave-plots (L 1.1-2.2m, Wth c. 0.65m) aligned E-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fountainhill or Knockavilra.

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 Fountainhill or Knockavilra, 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 Fountainhill or Knockavilra.

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

Name

Fountainhill or Knockavilra · Cnoc an Bhiolra

Area

591,220 m² (59.12 ha, 146.09 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Sillerna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

466 people lived in 191 households in the Sillerna electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Claddaghduff, Grallagh

Placenames

Fountainhill or Knockavilra 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.