Knocknaboha

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaboha, from 1,770 m² to 251,658 m² (25.17 ha, 62.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Knocknaboha 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

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenastar Wood 001431

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknaboha.

Architectural heritage

• Glenastar Lodge, hunting/fishing lodge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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

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

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 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.

No address of the register names Knocknaboha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knocknaboha · Cnoc na Boithe

Area

575,029 m² (57.5 ha, 142.09 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Rooskagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinloughane, Ballynabearna, Glenastar

Placenames

Knocknaboha 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.