Knockloughra

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockloughra, from 54 m² to 35,762 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Knockloughra 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.

• 7 Apr 2026Conditional

  The construction of a dormer type dwelling house, a detached single storey domestic garage/store, on-site wastewater treatment system, site access and boundary treatment, together with associated and ancillary site development works and the provision of ancillary services above and below ground.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660258

• 11 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT MACHINERY/HANDLING SHED FOR OYSTER FARMING TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17977

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 Knockloughra.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockloughra.

Architectural heritage

• Knockloughra National School, school, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey national school, dated 1884; extant 1897, on a U-shaped plan originally three-bay[?] single-storey on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower end bays. Extended, 1958-9, producing present composition. Closed, 1984. Renovated to accommodate continued occasional residential use. Replacement pitched artificial slate roofs on a U-shaped plan including pitched (gabled) artificial slate roofs with clay ridge tiles terminating in repointed chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening below drag edged rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("1884") with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Knockloughra, about 1 in 10 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 the townland of Knockloughra.

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

Name

Knockloughra · Cnoc Luachra

Area

266,196 m² (26.62 ha, 65.78 acres)

Civil parish

Burrishoole, and its townlands

Barony

Burrishoole

Electoral division

Newport West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

799 people lived in 290 households in the Newport West electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbeg (Fergus), Carrowbeg North, Knockbreaga, Roskeen North

Placenames

Knockloughra 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.