Knockanotish
Knockanotish is a townland in the civil parish of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Fhótais.
Parcel 5069416
- Area
- 251 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 164 m².
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential (Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
- Townland
- Knockanotish
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 21 recorded monuments.
- MA118-006 Enclosure
Description
In backyard, used as lawn. Circular area (diam. c. 32m), enclosed by remains of low earthen bank. Undulations of land make interpretation difficult. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 459. Date of upload: 11 November 2013
- MA118-022 Historic town
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA118-022001 Castle - unclassified
Description
In undulating pasture, with River Robe 100m N. According to Knox (1908, 36) a Norman castle was erected here in the 1230's. It changed ownership many times. Transformed into a manor house before being levelled to build a military barracks in late eighteenth century, the ruins of which now occupy the site. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 681. Date of upload: 14 November 2013
- MA118-022002 Religious house - Augustinian friars
Description
On slightly raised ground, just above former flood plains of River Robe. Founded c. 1312, probably by Elizabeth de Clare; first Augustinian house in Connaught. Buildings repaired in 1400 and 1431. Friars in occupation in 1574 and again after rebellion of 1641 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 296). Had its own seal (now in the British Museum). Excavated prior to restoration and conservation (1990-1994) by FAS/LMLCTA. Church (7.1m N-S; 34.6m E-W) consists of a nave and chancel; parts of W doorway with rope fluting are original while window overhead was retrieved from E gable. E tracery window not original; reconstructed based on original fragments. On S wall are two piscinia and a sedilia. Also on S wall, splayed windows contain two distinct mason marks. Building of unknown function on NE external corner of church; accessed through doorway and steps in N wall. Much of S aisle surviving with narrow doorway connecting it to nave; contains piscina. Narrow doorway on N wall gives access to square side chapel with widely splayed embrasure containing narrow light. Cross slab (MA118-022012-) found beneath W doorway during excavations. Surrounded by graveyard (MA118-022003-). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 638. Date of upload: 14 November 2013
- MA118-022003 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA118-022004 Graveslab
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA118-022005 Earthwork
Description
On the E bank of the Robe River, adjacent to Ballinrobe abbey (MA118-022002-), on the northern outskirts of Ballinrobe town. Earthworks were noted here in the 1980's by Bradley and Dunne (1989, 24) who recorded them as follows: 'There are numerous undulations in terrain in the field immediately to the west and north of the abbey [Ballinrobe abbey (MA118-022002)] but these form no coherent pattern.' This location is now overlain by modern housing. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 June 2022
- MA118-022006 Church
Description
In NE corner of large graveyard. Ruins of heavily overgrown rectangular church (7.5m N-S; 31.3m E-W), built with roughly coursed limestone rubble on protruding plinth. Poorly preserved remains of N wall contains remains of at least two narrow lights in splayed embrasures; and lintelled niche near E end. S wall (H 3.4m) contains three narrow single-light windows; niche near E end; and blocked up arched feature at E end. Opening in W wall may have been doorway. Original E window altered for insertion of later window which has subsequently been blocked. Interior filled with gravestones. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 606. Date of upload: 14 November 2013
- MA118-022007 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA118-022008 Church
Description
In a graveyard (MA118-022013-) located to S of the River Robe in Ballinrobe town. There are no visible remains of the medieval parish church which stood at this location. The current church, St Mary’s Church of Ireland (NIAH reg. no. 31215049), built in the early 1800’s with funding from the Board of First Fruits, stands on the site of the earlier church and appears to incorporate remnants of it within its fabric. The date of construction of the medieval church is unknown. The medieval borough of Ballinrobe was established following the conquest of Connaught by the Anglo-Normans sometime after 1237. By the early 1400’s it had become the main stronghold of the Mac Willam Íochtar, chief of the Burke clan. The first documentary reference to the parish church is in a papal letter of 1413. Bradley and Dunne (1989, 20-21) record it as follows: ‘The first reference to this church occurs in 1413 when one Henry was vicar of the church of St Mary and Holy Cross (Twemlow 1904, 387). He had been driven out by 1414, however, when the church is described as without a cure and having no rents to support a rector; accordingly a relaxation of penance was granted to those who visited and gave alms on certain days (ibid., 421). Two parish churches are mentioned in the later fourteenth century, one in Conkule or Conmacnecule, south of the river and the other in Roba in Kera, north of the river in 1484, 1485 and 1487 (Twemlow 1960, 70, 215, 270). By this time the church of Roba in Kera, presumably Carrownaleckna Church [MA118-022006-] had been canonically annexed to the church of Conmacnecule.’ In 1655, following the Cromwellian conquest, Ballinrobe was granted to James Cuff. The church and graveyard at this stage became a place of Protestant worship and burial. A wall monument (MA118-022009-) dated to 1668 now set in the exterior N wall of the church must have been removed from the earlier church during the programme of rebuilding in the early 1800’s. Two graveslabs, dating to 1718 and 1719, also now on display outside the church, were removed from the floor of the church during the 1993-94 renovations (Dolan 2010, 87-88). These memorials and other 18th-century memorials in the graveyard indicate that the earlier church and graveyard continued in use until the building of the current church. There are hints that the current church may incorporate fragments of the earlier church. Dolan (2010, 47-50) noted that the outline of a gothic arch, infilled with later masonry, is visible in the N wall of the church in a photograph taken of the church interior during the 1993 renovations; it is not now visible. She also records a piscina (ibid, 47-48) carved into a square block of limestone (0.45m x 0.45m; D 0.2m) which was removed from the church. Unusually the central bowl-shaped hollow had five drainage holes instead of the standard single hole. The whereabouts of the piscina are now unknown. St Mary’s church was deconsecrated in 1993 when the interior was remodelled and it now serves as a public library. Attached image: MA118-022008-_01.JPG St Mary's 19th-century church viewed from NW MA118-022008-_02.JPG St Mary's 19th-century church viewed from SE Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 June 2022
And 11 more.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 118 ha
- 291 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 5,327 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanotish, from 55 m² to 118,663 m² (11.87 ha, 29.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserver Tier I (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserver Tier II (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 0 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
8 Aug 2024Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated works at the above address
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460492
27 Jul 2023Conditional
construct extensions and alterations to existing private dwelling house and provide a new entrance to the dwelling house from the public road along with all associated services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23431
11 Jun 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19449
8 Dec 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, REVISED ENTRANCE AND BOUNDARY ONTO THE L1607 ROAD ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17975
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 Knockanotish.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockanotish.
Architectural heritage
- Unknown, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cut-limestone date stone, dated 1782. Set in cement rendered wall.
- Robe Villa, house, 1735–1745 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey over part raised basement house, begun 1739; built 1740; dated 1741, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey with single-bay (three-bay deep) full-height central return (north). Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Vacated, 1982. Sold, 1992. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan on timber construction with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined chimney stacks off-centred on rendered, ruled and lined chimney stack having dragged cut-limestone stringcourse below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal or tapered pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on dragged cut-limestone eaves retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered; fine roughcast surface finish to rear (north) elevation. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of five dragged cut-limestone steps between spear head-detailed flat iron railings, dragged cut-limestone doorcase with panelled pilasters centred on three quarter-engaged Ionic columns supporting "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice, and red brick voussoirs framing timber panelled door with sidelights below fanlight now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone or red brick voussoirs with one-over-one timber sash windows now boarded-up. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber Classical-style surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Street fronted with spear head-detailed flat iron railings to perimeter.
- Robe Villa, miller's house, 1735–1818 · Regional interest
Description
Attached five-bay two-storey mill manager's house, extant 1818, on a symmetrical plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered cut-limestone coping to gable (east) with rendered, ruled and lined chimney stack to apex having cut-limestone stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, central rooflight to front (south) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening with drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing remains of timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Street fronted with wrought iron railings to perimeter centred on wrought iron gate.
- Robe Villa, mill (water), 1735–1818 · Regional interest
Description
Mill complex, extant 1818, including (east): Attached four-bay six-storey mill on a rectangular plan with two-bay full-height side elevations. Decommissioned, 1884. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered roughcast coursed or snecked limestone walls with drag edged tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs framing remains of ten-over-fifteen or ten-over-ten (upper floors) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Knockanotish, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockanotish.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockanotish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knockanotish · Cnoc an Fhótais
- Area
- 1,179,595 m² (117.96 ha, 291.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinrobe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Ballinrobe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,118 people lived in 1,517 households in the Ballinrobe electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrownalecka, Cloongowla, Cornaroya, Friarsquarter West, Rathkelly
- Placenames
- Knockanotish 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.