Knocknaboola

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaboola, from 141 m² to 228,901 m² (22.89 ha, 56.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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 Knocknaboola 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.

• 24 Mar 2025Refused

  PERMISSION TO (1) DEMOLISH EXISTING HOUSE AT KNOCKNABOOLA, KILLORGLIN and (2) CONSTRUCT REPLACEMENT FAMILY DWELLING WITH MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT/POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AT KNOCKNABOOLA, KILLORGLIN

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560214

• 26 Apr 2024Conditional

  (a) to retain his house within revised boundaries and (b) retain the unauthorised sheds as constructed within revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460257

• 23 Oct 2023Refused

  Permission to (1) demolish existing house at Knocknaboola, Killorglin and (2) construct a replacement family dwelling with mechanical treatment unit/polishing filter and all associated services also at Knocknaboola, Killorglin, Co. Kerry

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360255

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, ALL COMPLETE WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211186

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN ANIMAL HOUSE WITH SLATTED TANKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS ON THEIR LANDS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211136

• 4 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21478

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH A SITE ENTRANCE, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201152

• 18 Feb 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH A SITE ENTRANCE, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20146

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19231

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING-HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18902

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 Knocknaboola.

Recorded monuments

• KE056-036 Standing stone
  Description

  This regularly shaped standing stone is located in a farmyard, about 100m SE of Lough Y Keel. It stands 2m high, and measures 1.4m x .75m at base; NE-SW. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 195. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE056-038 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure is marked at this location on both editions of the OS maps. It was levelled in the 1950s and no visible surface trace remains. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 826. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE056-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure on both editions of the OS maps, this site was levelled in the mid-1970s when the fields in its immediate vicinity were amalgamated. The site had previously been used as a cattle enclosure (local information). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 827. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE056-039001 Enclosure
  Description

  In a possible rath (KE056-039----). Depicted on the 1894 OS 6-inch map, as an oval enclosure (c. 15m E-W; c. 10m N-S) in the interior of the rath just off-centre to S. The rath was levelled during land reclamation in the mid-1970s and both the rath and enclosure are not visible at ground level (SMR file). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocknaboola, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_65 (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.

No address of the register names Knocknaboola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Knocknaboola · Cnoc na Buaile

Area

3,166,286 m² (316.63 ha, 782.41 acres)

Civil parish

Killorglin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Kilgobnet, the unit of the census

Census 2022

984 people lived in 325 households in the Kilgobnet electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmoneel, Coomnafanida, Garrahadoo, Gortloughra, Groin, Ownagarry, Rangue

Placenames

Knocknaboola 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.