Knockboy

Area

150,171 m² (15.02 ha, 37.11 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Knockboy

Planning applications on this parcel

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, secondary treatment system & soil polishing filter, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360132

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 6 recorded monuments.

• CW004-012001 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 16 December 2009 Revised by: J. Farrelly Historic Monument No. HM003511, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 22 December 1980. Foundations of rectangular structure (12.2m x 7.3m) visible in uncultivated area (c. 14m E-W x 8m N-S) built against slope at SE. Two crosses and holed stone stand on summit of natural mound - see CW004-012003-, CW004-012004- and CW004-012005-. See also ogham stone (CW004-011----) and holy well (CW004-010----). Associated with a graveyard (CW004-012002-).

• CW004-012002 Graveyard
  Description

  Depicted on the 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as a rectangular area (map dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 35m N-S) with outline of church (CW004-012001-) indicated in eastern half. The 1908 OS '6-inch map' depicts it as a sub-circular raised area and notes that it is 'disused'. Two crosses and holed stone stand on summit (see CW004-012003-, CW004-012004- and CW004-012005-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW004-012003 Cross - High cross
  Description

  Historic Monument No. HM003511, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 22 December 1980. A granite, undecorated, solid-wheeled cross (H 1.92m; Wth across arms 0.87m) with edge mouldings and slightly projecting arms, set in rectangular base (L 0.71m; Wth 0.6m). (Harbison 1992, 184 (entry 232)) Reference: Harbison, P. 1992 The high crosses of Ireland; An iconographical and photographic survey 3 vols. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH, Bonn. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW004-012004 Cross
  Description

  Historic Monument No. HM003511, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 22 December 1980. A late medieval limestone cross with solid wheel and arms broken. A gothic Christ is depicted on E face. Probably originally stood in cross base (CW004-013----) beside road to NE, now stands in large earthfast granite boulder. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW004-012005 Cross
  Description

  Comerford (1886, 343) refers to a cross base here. It may be the same cross base as that set into the wall to the NE (CW004-013----). Reference: Comerford, Rev. M. 1886 Collections relating to the dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin, 3 vols. James Duffy & Sons, Dublin. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW004-013 Cross - Wayside cross
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Apparently rectangular granite block, with flat upper surface and rectangular socket (L 0.25m; Wth 0.19; D 0.18m), set in wall. Probably base of figured cross at Waterstown (CW004-012----).

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

At the centre of this parcel, 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

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.

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.