Kilboy

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilboy, from 3,224 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) to 158,827 m² (15.88 ha, 39.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Kilboy 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 Kilboy 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 Kilboy.

Recorded monuments

• TS054-038001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In grassland on an E-facing slope overlooking small stream to E with rising grassland to W, in upland region. Covered well located in overgrown bushes and trees which has been fenced off from the surrounding land which has resulted in the well becoming overgrown and difficult to examine. Well covered by a rectangular vaulted building (int. dims. 1.60m N-S; E-W 4.3m; wall T 1m; H 2m) roughly orientated E-W with a small window in the W gable. Unfortunately the building has been covered in a concrete pebble dash and the roof has been covered in concrete. Inside the building the underside of the vault has been partially covered in concrete. The interior is accessed via a doorway located at the W end of the N wall. Within there is a small water channel (Wth 0.7m; D 0.5m) running the length of the building. The roof of the chamber is barrel-vaulted with evidence of wicker centring on the underside of the vault. Immediately inside the doorway there is evidence of a cut stone with hammer-dressed surface contained within a drafted margin of 15th/16th century style. Known locally as Perry's Well named after the Perry family who lived in the area for many generations and possibly associated with an old abbey located in the area of which now there are no remains (Hassett 1990, 286-7, Hemphill 1912, 1912, 325-30). The well is supposed to have powers of curing and was once a place of pilgrimage for people to go for cures especially sores for their feet (ibid). According to Ó hÓgáin (1981, 71), cited in Ó Cearbhaill (2007, 76) of an account of the well in 1864, it states that 'the well is yet held sacred by the people, and there are several stone images inside the wall around it'. One of the stones at the well is decorated with three dancing figures in a folk art style. On the right hand the window in the gable there was a carved figure of the Blessed Virgin and on the left had side there was an iron figure of an old man with bare legs and arms, eyes shut and flowing beard dressed in a tunic which below the belt was a kilt (Hemphill 1912, 325-30). No remains visible of iron figure in the vicinity of the well or the building. A carved stone pieta from a 16th-century altar-tomb (TS054-038002-) was found lying prostrate on ground to W of gable. According to Hemphill large crowds of pilgrims gathered in front of the W gable and kneeled down in prayer in front of the figures (Hemphill 1912, 325-6). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 January 2023

• TS054-038002 Tomb - chest tomb
  Description

  In grassland on an E-facing slope overlooking small stream to E with rising grassland to W, in upland region. A carved stone pieta from a 16th-century chest tomb (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 227; vol.2, plate 320) lies on the ground to the W of the gable of a structure covering a holy well (TS54-038001-). The well is located in an area overgrown with bushes and trees which has been fenced off from the surrounding land. The sculpture is described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 227) as 'The Virgin is seated and she wears a flounced robe, the three flounces with the edge of each flounce forming a repetitive wavy pattern...Her head seems to be bare and her hair falls in waves upon her shoulders. The figure of Christ on her lap is mostly missing, the head and legs being broken away. On the sinister side one of the spandrels of the canopied niche under which Our Lady is seated has some leafage of gothic type carved in it. The date must be early sixteenth century'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 30 January 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilboy.

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 Kilboy, 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 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 Kilboy.

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 Kilboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Kilboy · An Chill Bhuí

Area

270,119 m² (27.01 ha, 66.75 acres)

Civil parish

Graystown, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Killenaule, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,223 people lived in 486 households in the Killenaule electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintogher, Dunguib, Graystown, Springhill

Placenames

Kilboy 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.