Knockmoynagh

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmoynagh, from 1,593 m² to 176,853 m² (17.69 ha, 43.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockmoynagh 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.

• 23 Mar 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of construction of a dwelling house, garage, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2094

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 Knockmoynagh.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-106001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a slight SW-facing slope. A raised circular area (22m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.65m) WSW-ENE and by a scarp elsewhere. The interior is level and the SW portion is raised to compensate for the natural slope. There is a standing stone (SL033-106002-) against the internal face of the bank at NNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-106002 Standing stone
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a rath (SL033-106001-), standing against the internal face of the bank at NNE. An upright weathered limestone stone (H 1.8m; L 1.85m; T 0.45m), triangular in shape and rectangular in plan. It is thought to be 'one of the idols of the Druids of Corran' (MacDonagh, 1936, 199). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-107 Crannog
  Description

  In a wet meadow which was formerly a lake. Views are restricted due to the surrounding drumlins; the summit of Kesh Corann, however, is visible to the S. A circular low-mound crannog (23.5m N-S; 22m E-W; H 1.3m), the surface of which consists of soil mixed with stones firmly set in the ground. The N half of the mound (10m N-S; 22m E-W; H 0.7m) is raised slightly above the less stony S half (H c. 0.3m). The perimeter of the crannog is distinct in form and material. It is overgrown with grass and flowers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Knockmoynagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knockmoynagh · Cnoc Maoineach

Area

1,665,282 m² (166.53 ha, 411.5 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmorgan, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Drumfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumfin electoral division: 412 people in 151 households; 92% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Cloonlurg, Doobeg, Doomore, Doonmeegin, Kilmorgan, Newpark, Turlaghyraun

Placenames

Knockmoynagh 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.