Purple Mountain · 832 m · 26 km NNW

Mountain · Shehy Mountains · County Cork

Knockboy

706 m2,316 ft

Easiest route: 2.2 km+234 m · about 1 h
Prominence: 685 m2,247 ft
Tonight: 5°CHeavy rain · Wind 33 km/h SW

Knockboy is a 706 m (2,316 ft) mountain in the Shehy Mountains, County Cork, Ireland.

All facts

Elevation: 706 m · 2,316 ft
Range: Shehy Mountains
Region: County Cork, Ireland
Spanish name: An Cnoc Buí
Coordinates: 51.8024° N, 9.4435° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Knockboy

The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

From Road end, 2.1 km WSW of Knockboy

Distance: 2.2 kmone way
Climb: +234 m(768 ft up)
Time up: about 1 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Knockboy elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Knockboy 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.8 × 6.8 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Knockboy terrain and contours

25 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 125 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Knockboy weather

Tonight · Heavy rain · 5°C (41°F) · 14.5 mm · Wind 33 km/h SW

Knockboy forecast for the summit, about 706 m.

Tonight5°14.5 mm33 km/h SW
Sat5°11°24.9 mm41 km/h W
Sun5°8°12.5 mm32 km/h W
Mon5°11°22.9 mm37 km/h SW
Tue6°8°1.8 mm31 km/h W
Wed7°10°0.9 mm18 km/h W
Thu6°8°15.3 mm27 km/h SE
Fri1°9°4.0 mm16 km/h N
Sat-1°6°–19 km/h NW
Sun-2°6°0.2 mm13 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Knockboy

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Knockboy, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
6.1 km WNW
+2 more within 6.6 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Parking	6.1 km WNW
Parking	6.2 km WNW
Parking	6.6 km S

Slope

How steep is the route to Knockboy?

The easiest mapped route, 2.2 km from 463 m to 706 m. Steepest stretch: 19°.

0 km · 463 m2.2 km · 706 m

0–15°2.1 km
15–30°0.1 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 93.6%Trees 5.9%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.4 km, measured from the Knockboy summit.

Summit list 6

1Knockboy North Top649 m 0.6 km NNW
2Knockboy South Top533 m 1.5 km S
3Caoinkeen693 m 2.6 km NNE
4Coomhola Mountain472 m 2.8 km SSW
5Caoinkeen South-East Top554 m 2.9 km NE
6The Priest's Leap519 m 3.0 km WSW

Where it sits

Where Knockboy sits

Ranked in 1

#19 Treks and hikes in Ireland

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Muckross Lake24 km NNW

Downloads

Knockboy downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

Free files made in your browser from this page's terrain data. No sign-up; credit the sources below.

Print & wall

JPGKnockboy satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-04-29.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXKnockboy GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Free to use with credit: see the data sources

Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 702 m at the summit; the official height is 706 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	706 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	702 m	-4 m
Copernicus GLO-90	699 m	-7 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-04-29)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Knockboy

From Road end, 2.1 km WSW of Knockboy

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Data sources