Knockanour

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanour, from 154 m² to 149,685 m² (14.97 ha, 36.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Knockanour 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.

• 4 Jul 2026N/a

  The construction of a single two-storey detached dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660537

• 10 Jun 2025Conditional

  planning permission for the installation of a proposed foul water pumping station, rising main, and all other associated site development works above and below ground level and all other development works as set out in the planning application documentation. All services connections are to existing services on the public road. All of the above is proposed at Horkans Garden Centre, Turlough Rd, Turlough (Turlach) TD. and Knockanour TD., Castlebar, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560364

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, RELOCATION OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, NEW TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS TO INCLUDE HORSE STABLES, STORAGE AREAS, EXERCISE RING INCLUDING EXTERNAL SAND ARENA, PADDOCKS AND ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22786

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING KITCHEN AND DINING FACILITIES AT THE GARDEN CENTRE, TOGETHER WITH A NEW HORTICULTURAL COVERED STRUCTURE OVER EXISTING OUT DOOR PLANT CENTRE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20806

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 Knockanour.

Recorded monuments

• MA070-148001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on the top of a prominent knoll, with a steep fall of ground at E, S and W. The base of the knoll on the S side has been scarped where a roughly E-W road lies. The location provides good views in all directions. Raised circular area (int. dims. 29m N−S; 27m E−W) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone, which has a steep external slope (H 2m at N), but is very low internally. The bank is topped by clearly defined wall footings (Wth c. 0.5m). The enclosing bank is best preserved on the W half, but it less clearly defined on the E half, and has been broken down at E. There is a possible fosse, evident as a shallow depression (Wth 1m), outside the inner bank at NW−N, with a low external stone bank (H 0.5m) of stone. There is possible rectangular house (MA070-148002-) in the SW quadrant of the interior. Immediately to N, there is a roughly trapezoidal depression (c. 5m N−S; 5m E−W at S, c. 3m at N; D 0.5m). To W of this, there is poorly defined rectangular feature (6m E−W; 3m N−S), open to E. In the E half of the interior there is a mound of loose stone, most likely the result of relatively recent field clearance activity. The perimeter and interior of the rath are covered in overgrowth. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 January 2018

• MA070-148002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Located in the SW quadrant of a rath (MA070-148001-). This consists of a roughly rectangular area (6m E−W; 3m N−S) bordered on the S, W and N sides by a low stony rise/possible wall (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.3m); it is open on the E side. Immediately to N, there is a roughly trapezoidal depression (c. 5m N−S; 5m E−W at S, c. 3m at N; D 0.5m). To W of that, there is poorly defined rectangular feature (6m E−W; 3m N−S). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Bypassed, 1990. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or semi-coursed rubble limestone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (south-west) elevation having domed pyramidal capping with lichen-covered rounded coping to parapets. Series of three segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning Castlebar River with unkempt banks to river.

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 Knockanour, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_368 (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 Knockanour with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Knockanour · Cnoc an Fhobhair

Area

554,585 m² (55.46 ha, 137.04 acres)

Civil parish

Turlough, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Turlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,560 people lived in 531 households in the Turlough electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Capparanny, Carrowkeel, Drumdaff, Gortnafolla, Turlough

Placenames

Knockanour 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.