Knockfereen

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfereen, from 22 m² to 61,738 m² (6.17 ha, 15.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 63 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industry (General industry)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Services/Facilities (Community facilities)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Infrastructure & Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Jun 2026Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to the side of the existing building to act as an expansion of the existing storage room and to continue acting as an equipment store, along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26141

• 28 May 2026N/a

  Ground floor side extension (163m2) to existing Gym facility and all landscaping and boundary treatments, ancillary works and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660421

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  Retention planning permission to retain extension to existing machinery and plant maintenance building and full planning permission to construct an extension to the existing building comprising of an industrial building for the purpose of machinery storage only, along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25421

• 6 Feb 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: Construct a new window on the side of the existing dwelling to allow natural light into a living space within the house, new window will be 1.2m wide and 1.4m high

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2536

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM FURNITURE STORE TO FURNITURE, SMALL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, GARDEN WARE AND ACCESSORIES SUPERSTORE, RETAIN EXISTING STOREROOM TO REAR OF BUILDING, CONSTRUCT NEW GARDEN AND OUTDOOR DISPLAY AREA TO SIDE OF EXISTING BUILDING, AND CONSTRUCT MEZZANINE FLOOR OVER MAIN SHOP AREA OF EXISTING BUILDING, ERECT ASSOCIATED NEW SIGNAGE, AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCIILARY WORKS AN NECESSARY ON SITE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21661

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  Construct a building for the purposes of a meeting room facility to be used by the residents and members of the St. Vincent DePaul within the Knockfereen Residential complex, with connection to the public sewers along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21306

• 9 Mar 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STRUCTURES TO INCLUDE; PART OF VACUUM PACK CHILL STORE, ANCILLARY HUT, PART OF BONING HALL, ANCILLARY SHELTER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFICE, LIVESTOCK RECORD OFFICE, PAYMENTS OFFICE AND ANCILLARY STORES. 275 SQM EXTENSION TO AND RETENTION OF PART OF EXISTING VACUUM PACK AND CHILL STORES, 302 SQM EXTENSION TO AND RETENTION OF PART OF EXISTING BONING HALL AND CHILL STORES, 596 SQM EXTENSION TO EXISTING LAIRAGE BUILDING TO INCLUDE OFFICES, TOILETS, ARCHIVE STORE, UPGRADING AND EXTENSION OF LAIRAGE/DELIVERY AREA, 29 SQM EXTENSION TO AND RETENTION OF PART OF EXISTING OFFICE. RETENTION OF STOREROOMS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND EXTERNAL CHILL STORES AND SHEDS. EXTENSION OF CAR PARKING AREA, NEW LOADING BAY, ANCILLARY WORKS AND SERVICES. THIS DEVELOPMENT COMPRISES AN ACTIVITY REQUIRING AN INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL LICENCE NO. P0859-01. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT IS ALSO SUBMITTED

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21209

• 17 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SHED FOR THE PURPOSE OF MACHINERY STORAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20480

• 23 Apr 2020Conditional

  Construction of a new 2.4m high security fence for the purposes of enclosing an existing telecommunications container and ancillary equipment

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20275

• 5 Dec 2018Conditional

  Build an ESB MV Substation building for transformer

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18975

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  RENOVATION OF EXISTING BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING BUILDING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENTS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18803

• 8 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH OF THE EXISTING CONVENIENCE SHOP BUILDING (GROSS FLOOR AREA OF EXTENSION 88.50QM) TO INCLUDE CUSTOMER TOILETS, CUSTOMER SEATING AREA AND ADDITIONAL FOOD PREPARATION AREA, MINOR ALTERATIONS TO NORTHERN ELEVATION OF THE SHOP BUILDING AND MINOR INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 1871

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPING, SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 171047

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ELDERLY COMPRISING OF 6 NO. SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSES AND 8 NO. APARTMENTS IN 2 NO. TWO STOREY BLOCKS WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17181

• 13 Jan 2017Conditional

  RETAIN DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROOF SPACE OF THE ORIGINAL BUNGALOW DWELLING. THE DEVELOPMENT FOR WHICH RETENTION IS BEING SOUGHT OCCURRED WHOLLY WITHIN THE ORIGINAL BUILDING ENVELOPE, PROVIDED TWO NEW BEDROOMS, AND REQUIRED THE REMOVAL OF AN EXISITNG CHIMNEY AND THE PROVISION OF A NUMBER OF VELUX WINDOWS TO THE FRONT AND REAR

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 1713

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 Knockfereen.

Recorded monuments

• MA118-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing land. Roughly circular area (35.5m N-S; 41m E-W), enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.5m), levelled N to E. Two linear earthen mounds in interior. 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. 179. Date of upload: 14 November 2013

Architectural heritage

• Parkview House, house, 1841–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey house with dormer attic, extant 1894, on an L-shaped plan; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey return (east). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, 2000-1. Replacement hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with pressed iron ridges, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, paired rooflights to front (west) pitch, and uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed rubble limestone walls originally rendered on cut-limestone chamfered plinth with drag edged rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions on drag edged tooled cut-limestone step threshold supporting timber transom, and yellow brick block-and-start surround centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystone framing replacement timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and yellow brick block-and-start surrounds centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystones framing replacement six-over-six timber sash windows. Round-headed central window opening to rear (east) elevation with yellow brick block-and-start surround framing fixed-pane timber fitting. Set back from street with "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron railings to perimeter centred on "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed cast-iron gate.

• Ballinrobe Union Workhouse, workhouse, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of Union Workhouse complex, designed 1840; built 1840-2; dated 1841; opened 1841, including: Detached five-bay two-storey "Front Block" on a U-shaped plan with pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height returns (south). Partly occupied, 1911. Damaged, 1922. Closed, 1926. Renovated, 1993[?], to accommodate alternative use. Now disused[?]. Replacement pitched slate on a U-shaped plan incorporating gablets to window openings (first floor) with pressed ridges, lichen-covered drag edged tooled cut-limestone coping to gables on drag edged tooled cut-limestone thumbnail beaded kneelers, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters with replacement uPVC rainwater goods to rear (south) elevation on exposed timber rafters. Tuck pointed snecked limestone wall to front (north) elevation on drag edged tooled cut-limestone cushion course on plinth with lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone "Hollow" stringcourse (first floor); repointed coursed rubble limestone walls (remainder). Tudor-headed central door opening below drag edged cut-limestone date stone ("1841") with cut-limestone step threshold, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with "Hollow" hood moulding over framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with "Hollow" hood mouldings over framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber casement windows. Set in redeveloped grounds with tarmacadam footpath to front.

• Ballinrobe Railway Station, station master's house, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey railway station master's house, opened 1892; extant 1894; occupied 1901, with three-bay two-storey rear (north-east) elevation. Suspended, 1947. Closed, 1959. Renovated to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in fine roughcast chimney stacks having "Cavetto" capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement aluminium casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in own grounds with rear (north-east) elevation fronting on to street.

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 Knockfereen, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockfereen.

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 Knockfereen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Knockfereen · Cnoc Feirín

Area

322,543 m² (32.25 ha, 79.7 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

Ballinrobe Demesne, Cavanquarter, Cornaroya, Killosheheen

Placenames

Knockfereen 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.