Knockboy

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockboy, from 594,546 m² (59.45 ha, 146.92 acres) to 1,297,829 m² (129.78 ha, 320.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Knockboy 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 Knockboy 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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

• GA063-009 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In N part of Loch Buaile. A small subcircular artificial island (NW-SE 19m; NE-SW 16m) in fair condition, defined by a dry stone wall best preserved from N to NE (H 1.5m). Traces of a quay exist at E. The W part of the interior has been eroded by wave action and is permanently flooded, while E portion is overgrown. (Layard 189.7, 373-4; Killanin 1954, 102; Robinson 1985, 15, 21) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA063-010 Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
  Description

  In bogland on NE shore of Loch Buaile. It consists of a bed of flat granite stones (Wth 1-1.5m, H 1m) traceable intermittently for c. 70m from the lake shore, curving towards NE. A lake dwelling (GA063-009----) lies c. 180m to SW. (Robinson 1985, 21) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA063-011 Kiln - lime
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA064-003 Memorial stone
  Description

  In a small tree plantation in bogland. This inscribed plaque was recorded by Robinson (1985, 20-21) who noted it below a pigeon loft in one of the gable walls of a building that had formerly been stables but was subsequently converted into an L-shaped house. The inscription reads: 'Remember as you pass Cecil Coulter and Louisa Alice his wife who in this place 1918-1946 met sorrow and adversity with fortitude and all who came their way with loving kindness and who in their day by their vision and their labours made this wilderness a place of beauty.' Their memorial tablet in Roundstone Protestant church (GA050-024001-), which mentions their son, Conrad Coryton, who was killed in World War I aged nineteen, may explain their sorrow (ibid.). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 February 2023 Robinson, T. 1985 Mapping South Connemara, parts 1-29, Cashal, Carna, Cill Chiarain. Roundstone.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockboy · An Cnoc Buí

Area

3,721,519 m² (372.15 ha, 919.61 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Knockboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockboy electoral division: 875 people in 319 households; 81% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Callancruck, Carna, Cuilleen, Dooletter West, Glinsk, Letterdeskert, Moyrus

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Knockboy 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.