# Knocknaboha, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cnoc na Boithe. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 575,029 m² (57.5 ha, 142.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 42,795 m² (4.28 ha, 10.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardagh, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ardagh.md - Barony: Shanid - Electoral division: Rooskagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 289 people lived in 109 households in the Rooskagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31927 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121415 - Centre: latitude 52.489333, longitude -9.124632 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaboha, from 1,770 m² to 251,658 m² (25.17 ha, 62.19 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1630084: 251,658 m² (25.17 ha, 62.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630084.md - Parcel 1653873: 113,244 m² (11.32 ha, 27.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653873.md - Parcel 1607999: 106,428 m² (10.64 ha, 26.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607999.md - Parcel 1601713: 71,503 m² (7.15 ha, 17.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601713.md - Parcel 5621210: 14,086 m² (1.41 ha, 3.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5621210.md - Parcel 1589884: 2,768 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589884.md - Parcel 1630086: 1,918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630086.md - Parcel 1658433: 1,770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658433.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knocknaboha 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 Knocknaboha in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA, site code 004161, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004161 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenastar Wood, site code 001431 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknaboha. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Glenastar Lodge, hunting/fishing lodge, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 21902801, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21902801. Detached three-bay two-storey former hunting lodge, built c. 1800, now in use as house. Having single-storey extension incorporating porch and verandah to south (front) elevation. Extensions to east, west and north elevations. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, roof lights, and render eaves course. Flat roofs to north extension with render coping. Metal parapet to flat roof of front extension. Rendered walls with render plinth course, render quoins to first floor, south elevation. Cast-iron weathervane adjoining east wall of north extension. Square-headed openings throughout. Openings to first floor, front elevation with timber casement windows, cut stone sills, render surrounds and cornices and decorative external louvered shutters. Openings to ground floor with concrete sills and timber casement windows. Opening to first floor, west elevation with concrete sill and timber casement window. Openings to west extension with decorative render surround incorporating fluted pilasters and cornices, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Openings to rear with concrete sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical-headed opening to front elevation with timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors and fanlight. Square-headed opening to rear with timber battened half-glazed door. Cast-iron water pump mounted on timber pole to north-east of house. Pair of wrought-iron square-profile piers with wrought-iron sweep fence flanking pair of wrought-iron double-leaf gates to south of building. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Knocknaboha, about 1 in 10 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: 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 Knocknaboha. - 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/limerick/knocknaboha.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knocknaboha.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knocknaboha.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knocknaboha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinloughane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinloughane-120113.md - Ballynabearna: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynabearna.md - Glenastar: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenastar.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/limerick/knocknaboha - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/knocknaboha