Knockakeery
Knockakeery is a townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Uí Chaoirí.
Parcel 980260
- Area
- 35,582 m² (3.56 ha, 8.79 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- M4 Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
- Townland
- Knockakeery
Planning applications on this parcel
11 Dec 2025N/a
Permission to construct 8no. residential units comprising of 2 number 2 bed detached single storey houses, 3 number 3 bedroom detached storey and a half houses, 1 number 3 bedroom dormer detached house and 2 number 4 bedroom detached two storey houses, along with all relevant private amenity infrastructure, connection to public services and all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560912
29 Oct 2025N/a
Permission to construct 8no. residential units comprising of 2 number 2 bed detached single storey houses, 3 number 3 bedroom detached storey and a half houses, 1 number 3 bedroom dormer detached house and 2 number 4 bedroom detached two storey houses, along with all relevant private amenity infrastructure, connection to public services and all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560756
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_270 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 29.2 ha
- 72 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 10,117 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Village Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockakeery, from 627 m² to 69,411 m² (6.94 ha, 17.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 4 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
11 Dec 2025N/a
Permission to construct 8no. residential units comprising of 2 number 2 bed detached single storey houses, 3 number 3 bedroom detached storey and a half houses, 1 number 3 bedroom dormer detached house and 2 number 4 bedroom detached two storey houses, along with all relevant private amenity infrastructure, connection to public services and all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560912
29 Oct 2025N/a
Permission to construct 8no. residential units comprising of 2 number 2 bed detached single storey houses, 3 number 3 bedroom detached storey and a half houses, 1 number 3 bedroom dormer detached house and 2 number 4 bedroom detached two storey houses, along with all relevant private amenity infrastructure, connection to public services and all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560756
1 Dec 2022Refused
Construct 28 residential units comprising of 5 number 2 bed detached single storey houses, 19 number 3 bedroom detached two storey dormer houses and 4 number 4 bedroom detached two storey houses, along with all relevant private amenity infrastructure, connection to public services and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 221062
26 Sept 2022Conditional
Construct dwellinghouse, garage and ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22840
11 Nov 2019Conditional
RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19907
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 Knockakeery.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockakeery.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockakeery.
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 Knockakeery, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_270 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockakeery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knockakeery · Cnoc Uí Chaoirí
- Area
- 292,331 m² (29.23 ha, 72.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghagower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Aghagower North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,070 people lived in 354 households in the Aghagower North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghagower, Creggannaseer, Deerpark, Gorteen, Tawnagh
- Placenames
- Knockakeery 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.