Knockboy
Townland in the civil parish of Drum, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Cnoc Buí
- Area
- 69.5 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 4,762 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockboy, from 113 m² to 152,252 m² (15.23 ha, 37.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockboy 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
7 May 2026N/a
construct an astro turf multi use games area with a 2.4 meter high perimeter fence, together with all associated ancillary site works and services, in accordance with the plans and particulars submitted
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26100
16 Mar 2026Conditional
planning permission to construct a modular unit within the school grounds to accommodate preschool and afterschool facilities, including connection to existing services, together with all associated ancillary site works and services, in accordance with the plans and particulars submitted.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660207
24 Nov 2025Conditional
Permission to Construct a New Dwelling House, Garage, Septic Tank/Sewerage Treatment System and Associated Siteworks and Services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560851
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
3 Mar 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A MACHINERY/STORAGE SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20154
29 Nov 2019Refused
Renovation of existing derelict dwelling house and installation of septic tank and percolation area together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19949
30 Oct 2019Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, RENOVATION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19862
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 Knockboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockboy.
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
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockboy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Knockboy · An Cnoc Buí
- Area
- 694,611 m² (69.46 ha, 171.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Clogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clogher electoral division: 618 people in 213 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Catfort, Cloonboorhy, Drum or Knockatemple, Killeen, Lisrobert, Pollalena, Rusheen or Thomastown
- Placenames
- Knockboy 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.