Curraboy (Knox)
Curraboy (Knox) is a townland in the civil parish of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Chora Bhuí (Knox).
Parcel 938899
- Area
- 68,867 m² (6.89 ha, 17.02 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
- Curraboy (Knox)
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
- 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, partly inferred.
- 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
- 95.8 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 14,191 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraboy (Knox), from 533 m² to 100,257 m² (10.03 ha, 24.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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
No zone of a development plan covers Curraboy (Knox) 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Curraboy (Knox) 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.
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 Curraboy (Knox).
Recorded monuments
- MA118-066 House - indeterminate date
Description
Listed in the RMP (1997) as a mound based on its depiction as a small circular hachured feature on the 1929 OS 6-inch map. An inspection in 2010 recorded it as the remains of a house consisting of a circular area (5.6m N-S; 5m E-W) enclosed by a ruined stone wall (H 0.4m; Wth 1.4m), best preserved N to W (pers. comm. Richard Crumlish). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 December 2013
- MA118-141 House - indeterminate date
Description
Recorded in 1989 as ‘Circular area (5.6m N-S; 5m E-W), enclosed by ruined stone wall (H 0.4m; Wth 1.4m), best preserved N to W’ (Lavelle 1994). In an inspection in 2010, no trace of the monument was visible (pers. comm. R. Crumlish). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 February 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curraboy (Knox).
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 Curraboy (Knox), 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_370 (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 Curraboy (Knox) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Curraboy (Knox) · An Chora Bhuí (Knox)
- Area
- 958,123 m² (95.81 ha, 236.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinrobe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Ballinrobe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,118 people lived in 1,517 households in the Ballinrobe electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahercroobeen, Carrowmore, Cavan, Cornaroya, Curraboy (Kilmaine), Killosheheen
- Placenames
- Curraboy (Knox) 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.