Knockglass

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockglass, from 1,450 m² to 72,045 m² (7.2 ha, 17.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Knockglass 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.

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SLATTED SHED FOR TEH PURPOSES OF HOUSING LIVESTOCK, CALF CREEP AREA, FEEDING AREAS AND SLURRY STORAGE FACILITIES AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDING CONSISTING OF A SLATTED SHED FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOUSING LIVESTOCK, FEEDING AREAS AND SLURRY STORAGE FACILITIES STORAGE SHED, FODDER STORAGE AND WORKSHOP AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING MACHINERY STORAGE SHED ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20183

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19180

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18434

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 Knockglass.

Recorded monuments

• MA110-042001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Circular area (32m N-S; 30m E-W), defined by low earthen bank (H 0.2m). Souterrain (MA110-042002-) inaccessible. 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. 180. Date of upload: 28 October 2013 .

• MA110-042002 Souterrain
  Description

  In interior of ringfort (MA110-042001-). Inaccessible at time of survey. 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. 523. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockglass, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knockglass · An Cnoc Glas

Area

1,259,747 m² (125.97 ha, 311.29 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

Cloonee, Knockadoon, Knocklahard, Rathredmond, Rocksborough South

Placenames

Knockglass 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.