Knocknabooly Middle
Knocknabooly Middle is a townland in the civil parish of Loghill, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na Buaile Láir.
- Area
- 91.2 ha
- 225 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 4,071 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknabooly Middle, from 39 m² to 355,700 m² (35.57 ha, 87.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Knocknabooly Middle 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
6 May 2026Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, entrance, boundary walls, wastewater treatment and disposal system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660509
27 Nov 2025Conditional
the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, wate water treatment system with polishing filter together with associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561241
5 Nov 2025Refused
a Dwelling House, Garage, Entrance, boundary walls, wastewater treatment and disposal system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561134
16 Oct 2025Conditional
renovation of existing cottage and the construction of a new two storey extension to the east of the existing cottage, domestic garage, the installation a wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561050
9 Jun 2022Conditional
agricultural buildings which include calf rearing housing, cubicle sheds, slatted shed and hay/straw storage shed and also a silage slab and walls, and permission for a new dung stead and all associated works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 22657
14 Mar 2022Conditional
1) The restoration work to the original house, including the re-pointing and repair of all internal and external walls and chimney stack, repair to all rainwater goods, and to repair the existing roof structure. 2) The construction of a new extension to the rear of the original house. 3) The installation of a new wastewater percolation system on the site. 4) The deconstruction of the exiting shed and construction of a new shed. 5) The installation of a new private well and 6) Undertaking all associated site works and provision of services
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22291
28 Jun 2021Conditional
construction of a poultry house, concrete apron, clean & soiled water storage tanks, and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21909
10 Jan 2017Conditional
construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage with associated wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and related site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 1710
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocknabooly Middle.
Recorded monuments
- LI009-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed NNW->SSE by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.8m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 3.5m), and bounded SSE->NNW by field boundary. Bank is overgrown with briars and bushes, and fosse covered by rushes. Causeway entrance at E (Wth 3.4m). Interior slopes down gently to S and is poorly drained with stands of rushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI018-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Outline of enclosure can now be traced as slightly raised oval area (35.8m N-S; 30.7m E-W) enclosed by distinct band of darker grass (Wth c. 3m). On S side slight profile of enclosing element discernible with low bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.35m) and external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.1m). On E side of interior is depression which is irregular in outline (12m N-S; 6.5m E-W; max. D 1.05m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknabooly Middle.
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 Knocknabooly Middle, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknabooly Middle.
- 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 Knocknabooly Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknabooly Middle · Cnoc na Buaile Láir
- Area
- 912,055 m² (91.21 ha, 225.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loghill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Loghill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 664 people lived in 253 households in the Loghill electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knocknabooly East, Knocknabooly West, Mounttrenchard
- Placenames
- Knocknabooly Middle 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.