# Knockboy, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish An Cnoc Buí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,721,519 m² (372.15 ha, 919.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 946,188 m² (94.62 ha, 233.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moyrus, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moyrus.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Knockboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18271 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62836 - Centre: latitude 53.349718, longitude -9.832369 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2074410: 1,297,829 m² (129.78 ha, 320.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2074410.md - Parcel 2026801: 594,546 m² (59.45 ha, 146.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2026801.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Knockboy in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA063-009: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA063-009----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA063-010----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA063-011----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA064-003----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockboy. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockboy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockboy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockboy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Callancruck: https://everytownland.com/galway/callancruck.md - Carna: https://everytownland.com/galway/carna.md - Cuilleen: https://everytownland.com/galway/cuilleen-61623.md - Dooletter West: https://everytownland.com/galway/dooletter-west.md - Glinsk: https://everytownland.com/galway/glinsk-62202.md - Letterdeskert: https://everytownland.com/galway/letterdeskert.md - Moyrus: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyrus.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockboy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/knockboy