Knockboy
Knockboy is a townland in the civil parish of Dungarvan, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is An Cnoc Buí.
Parcel 4298322
- Area
- 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G3 HA (WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028) The objective
- Townland
- Knockboy
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1887 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 11.1 ha
- 28 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 2,156 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockboy, from 331 m² to 54,492 m² (5.45 ha, 13.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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
- G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Oct 2023Conditional
to retain indefinitely openings for new windows to the existing dwelling house. Planning permission is also required for the construction of a one and a half storey extension with balcony to the rear of the existing dwelling house, alterations to existing entrance driveway and entrance walls, alterations to existing dwelling house and all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360477
2 Oct 2023N/a
to retain indefinitely openings for new windows to the existing dwelling house. Planning permission is also required for the construction of a one and a half storey extension with balcony to the rear of the existing dwelling house, alterations to existing entrance driveway and entrance walls, alterations to existing dwelling house and all ancillary works
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2360458
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1887 (ZIP).
- 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 Knockboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Knockboy · An Cnoc Buí
- Area
- 111,394 m² (11.14 ha, 27.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dungarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Dungarvan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,096 people lived in 699 households in the Dungarvan Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Burgery, Curraheenaris, Knocknasalla, Lacken, Loughanunna, Tournore
- 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.