Knocknaganny

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaganny, from 217 m² to 215,401 m² (21.54 ha, 53.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Knocknaganny 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knocknaganny 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Kilglassan/Caheravoostia Turlough Complex SAC 000504
• Special Area of Conservation: Ardkill Turlough SAC 000461
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ardkill Turlough 000461
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilglassan/Caheravoostia Turlough Complex 000504

Recorded monuments

• MA119-040001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located on an elevation at W end of a small E−W ridge, in rolling limestone grassland, broken in parts by expanses of karst and high rock-outcropping. A seam of natural rock outcropping along the top of the ridge on its N edge marks the break of slope. From here ground falls into a small, narrow valley, with a modern field wall built along the top of the N limits of the valley. There are excellent views in all directions. A wet area/possible turlough is evident to S, marked ‘Liable to flood’ on the OS 6-inch map. This cashel is recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: CUPAP AYR 87 & 88 & 89). Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a wall which is reduced now to a broad, low grass-covered stone bank (Wth c. 3m). The enclosing wall coincides on its N arc with the break of slope of the ridge where ground falls into the small valley. A wall (H c. 0.8m) dating to the modern era overlies the cashel wall; it is roughly-built of limestone boulders, one boulder wide. It is built along the inner edge of the cashel wall on the E half of the circuit and on the outer edge of the cashel wall on the W half. The interior of the cashel is densely planted with conifers, making inspection difficult. The interior surface is uneven with several rises and dips, occasional boulders and small heaps of loose stones, all covered with a thick carpet of pine needles. In the NW quadrant is rectilinear depression (6m NW−SE; c. 3m NE−SW; D 0.4m), possibly the remains of a house (MA119-040002-). The CUCAP photograph also recorded a field system (MA119-040003-) surrounding the cashel and extending to E and S of it, associated with a cluster of rectangular vernacular houses. The field walls and houses were subsequently levelled during reclamation works. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 August 2023

• MA119-040002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of a cashel (MA119-040001-). A rectangular feature is recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: CUPAP AYR 87 & 88 & 89). At ground level it is evident as a rectilinear depression (6m NW−SE; c. 3m NE−SW; D 0.4m), but is difficult to examine as the cashel interior is densely planted with conifers. It may be the remains of a house. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 August 2023

• MA119-040003 Field system
  Description

  In the vicinity of a cashel (MA119-040001-), in rolling limestone grassland, broken by expanses of karst and high rock-outcropping. An aerial photograph (SMR file: CUPAP AYR 87 & 88 & 89) records a field system of subrectangular walled fields, in which cultivation ridges are visible. It surrounds the cashel and extending to E and S of it, but post-dates it. It is most likely associated with a cluster of ruined rectangular vernacular houses visible in the CUCAP photograph at a distance of c. 55m to SE of the cashel. This settlement is recorded on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, where five houses/buildings are shown, with an access road approaching from S and E; it is not shown on later map editions. Almost all trace of the settlement, field walls and cultivation ridges -bar a few slight surface undulations -were removed during reclamation works. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 August 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknaganny.

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 Knocknaganny, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_427 (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 Knocknaganny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Knocknaganny · Cnoc na Gainimhe

Area

540,733 m² (54.07 ha, 133.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilcommon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annefield, Ardkill, Ballymangan, Carrowkeel South

Placenames

Knocknaganny 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.