Curraboy (Knox)

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraboy (Knox), from 533 m² to 100,257 m² (10.03 ha, 24.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Curraboy (Knox) 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Curraboy (Knox) in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Curraboy (Knox).

Recorded monuments

• MA118-066 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Listed in the RMP (1997) as a mound based on its depiction as a small circular hachured feature on the 1929 OS 6-inch map. An inspection in 2010 recorded it as the remains of a house consisting of a circular area (5.6m N-S; 5m E-W) enclosed by a ruined stone wall (H 0.4m; Wth 1.4m), best preserved N to W (pers. comm. Richard Crumlish). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 December 2013

• MA118-141 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Recorded in 1989 as ‘Circular area (5.6m N-S; 5m E-W), enclosed by ruined stone wall (H 0.4m; Wth 1.4m), best preserved N to W’ (Lavelle 1994). In an inspection in 2010, no trace of the monument was visible (pers. comm. R. Crumlish). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 February 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraboy (Knox).

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_370 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Curraboy (Knox) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Curraboy (Knox) · An Chora Bhuí (Knox)

Area

958,123 m² (95.81 ha, 236.76 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinrobe, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Ballinrobe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinrobe electoral division: 4,118 people in 1,517 households; 62% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahercroobeen, Carrowmore, Cavan, Cornaroya, Curraboy (Kilmaine), Killosheheen

Placenames

Curraboy (Knox) 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.