Knockbody | |
Settlement Type: | Townland |
Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Knockbody within County Westmeath in the Republic of Ireland |
Coordinates: | 53.6169°N -7.3189°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Leinster |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | County Westmeath |
Blank Name: | Irish grid reference |
Blank Info: | N451632 |
Knockbody [1] is a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about 10.37km (06.44miles) north of Mullingar.
Knockbody is one of 11 townlands of the civil parish of Stonehall in the barony of Corkaree in the Province of Leinster. The townland covers 350.44acres.
The neighbouring townlands are: Monintown to the north, Martinstown to the south, Blackmiles to the south–west and Stonehall to the west. Knockbody borders the southern end of Lough Derravaragh.[2] [3]
In the 1911 census of Ireland there were 3 houses[4] and 22 inhabitants[5] in the townland.