Pollboy or Knockatober
Pollboy or Knockatober is a townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Poll Buí nó Cnoc an Tobair.
Parcel 1962680
- Area
- 2,791 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 160 m².
- Zoning
- The zoning service did not answer.
- Townland
- Pollboy or Knockatober
Planning applications on this parcel
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Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
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Recorded monuments around it
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Architectural heritage
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 108.6 ha
- 268 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 40,586 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- service did not answer
- Planning
- —
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollboy or Knockatober, from 429 m² to 289,144 m² (28.91 ha, 71.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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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 Pollboy or Knockatober.
Recorded monuments
- GA071-074001 Burial ground
Description
On the roadside, 800m SW of Monivea village. On 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, a medium-sized earthwork (GA071-074002-) is labelled as 'Burial Ground'. However, by time of 3rd ed. (1931), the latter appears as a large irregular area (c. 70m by c. 65m), delimited by a broken line. The modern graveyard is rectangular in plan (E-W 90m, N-S 70m), and is enclosed by a stone wall which overlies an earthen bank along N side. The majority of the burials are of 20th-C date but a number of small undressed set stones are visible. The well shown on OS 6-inch maps to W of the graveyard is a spring enclosed by a modern wall; it is currently used for watering livestock. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 261) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA071-074002 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Associated with a graveyard (GA071-074001-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives: the modern graveyard now occupies the site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA071-074003 Well
Description
This well is enclosed by a subrectangular block and cement wall. Access is at E. It is used as a watering hole for cattle. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 October 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollboy or Knockatober.
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 Pollboy or Knockatober, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollboy or Knockatober.
- 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 Pollboy or Knockatober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Pollboy or Knockatober · An Poll Buí nó Cnoc an Tobair
- Area
- 1,086,427 m² (108.64 ha, 268.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monivea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Monivea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 794 people lived in 273 households in the Monivea electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyskeagh, Corralea, Glennagloghaun North, Glennagloghaun South, Nurserypark or Corrabaun, Pollavullaun, Roundfield
- Placenames
- Pollboy or Knockatober 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.