Glennaknockane

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glennaknockane, from 321 m² to 436,257 m² (43.63 ha, 107.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Glennaknockane 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 Oct 2012Incompleted application

  Amend the permission granted under An Bord Pleanala Decision PL04.217191 (Planning Reg no. 06/4439) for 5 no. wind turbines. The amendments to consist of an increase in heights of turbines from 121m to 126.5m (ground to tip height), realignment of the permitted road layout, relocation of the electrical substation, realignment of hardstanding to Turbine no. 1 and associated site development works. The application also involves the installation of an 80m Permanent Meteorological Mast with access road.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6194

• 24 Feb 2011Unconditional

  Completion of windfarm consisting of 5 no. wind turbines, electrical control building, new internal site tracks, extension to existing tracks, storage compound and associated site works granted under reg. no. 06/4439

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/4361

• 18 May 2010Unconditional

  Completion of construction of 29 no. wind turbines, 2 no. meteorological masts, electrical substation, construction and upgrading of internal site tracks and associated works granted under pl.reg.no. 04/8354 (New permission to expire on 22/12/2014)

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/5211

• 13 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of steel slurry tower, reception tank, flow channel, automatic scrapers, cubicles and easy feed unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8627

• 23 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted house with underground tank, silage slab and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5390

• 31 Jan 2006Conditional

  Construction of windfarm comprising of 6 no. wind turbines (80m hub height and 82m blade diameter), an electrical control building, new internal site tracks and extension to existing site tracks, storage compound and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4439

• 23 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Windfarm comprising of 6 no. wind turbines (hub height 80m, blade diameter 82m), electrical control building, construction of new site tracks and extension to existing site tracks and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9872

• 11 Nov 2004Conditional

  29 no. wind turbines (hub height 80 m, blade diameter 90 m), electrical sub station with control building, 2 no. 80 m high meteorological masts, construction and extension of internal site tracks and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8354

• 30 Jun 2003Conditional

  Windfarm including 29 no. wind turbines (80m high),electrical substation with control building, 2 no. 60m meteorlog- ical masts & assoc works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3220

• 13 Jan 2003New application

  Slatted house, milking parlour, dairy & covered collection yard

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/80

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• CO013-021001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on WSW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Oval area (29.6m NE-SW; 22.2m SE-NW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.1m); external fosse (D 0.3m) W->NNE. Break in bank to ESE (Wth 2.3m) and W (Wth 2m). Rushes growing in interior which slopes down to WSW. Souterrain (CO013-02102-) a short distance to W of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO013-021002 Souterrain
  Description

  Bowman (1934, 107) noted a souterrain 'c. 10 yards west of fort [CO013-02101-], (and outside it) found c. 15 years ago. It was again closed'. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Glennaknockane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Glennaknockane · Gleann an Chnocáin

Area

2,700,077 m² (270.01 ha, 667.2 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Clonfert East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonfert East electoral division: 355 people in 137 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Foiladaun, Glenacarney, Meentinny West, Taurbeg, Tooreennagrena

Placenames

Glennaknockane 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.