Knocknaboul
Knocknaboul is a townland in the civil parish of Ballincuslane, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na bPoll.
- Area
- 516.8 ha
- 1,277 acres
- Land parcels
- 84
- registered freehold, median 3,880 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaboul, from 39 m² to 359,406 m² (35.94 ha, 88.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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
No zone of a development plan covers Knocknaboul 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Oct 2025Conditional
planning permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560969
22 Jul 2022Conditional
REMOVE THE EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH A 42M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LATTICE STURCTURE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22783
26 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERICES AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211213
22 Sept 2021N/a
CONSTRUCT DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211074
26 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21856
27 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING AND DETACHED SINGLE STOREY GARDEN STORE, THE INSTALLATION OF A DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND WALLS AND PIERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201018
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknaboul.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknaboul.
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 Knocknaboul, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknaboul.
- 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 Knocknaboul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknaboul · Cnoc na bPoll
- Area
- 5,168,013 m² (516.8 ha, 1,277.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballincuslane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Millbrook, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 487 people lived in 173 households in the Millbrook electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydesmond (Co. Cork), Ballynahulla, Carriganes (Co. Cork), Glanawaddra, Knockyeala, Tooreengarriv
- Placenames
- Knocknaboul 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.