Knockfobole

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfobole, from 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) to 152,129 m² (15.21 ha, 37.59 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 Knockfobole 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.

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561185

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

  (1) demolish exising side and rear extension (2) construct new side and rear extension (3) re-orientate existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211606

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 Knockfobole.

Recorded monuments

• TS067-033 Mound
  Description

  In an elevated position on the western end of a gravel ridge (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.4m; long axis c. WNW-ESE) surrounded by level pasture with a land drain to the S. Enclosure (TS067-034---) located c. 180m to SE. Horseshoe-shaped area (dims c. 17m N-S; c. 12m E-W) defined by low earthen bank. Interior slopes downwards to S where it has been eroded from N downwards. The monument is possibly a mound which was partially quarried into at some stage. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS067-034 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (dims c. 18m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by earthen scarp (H c. 0.4m) with very slight remains of a bank at NE (Wth c. 4m; H c. 0.2m). Interior level. Earthwork (TS067-033----) located c. 180m to NW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS067-116 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In improved level pasture, wet area to N and drain to N and S. Horseshoe shaped mound (c. 18m WNW-ESE; c. 9m ENE-WSW) open to NNW. Slight lip across opening of trough area. Rear of mound (H 0.9m; Wth 3.5m) at SSE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockfobole, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Knockfobole · Cnocán an Phobóil

Area

572,507 m² (57.25 ha, 141.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshane, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilfeakle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

500 people lived in 175 households in the Kilfeakle electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhusty, Cleghile, Dromline, Springhouse

Placenames

Knockfobole 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.