Kilclare Lower

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilclare Lower, from 322 m² to 108,134 m² (10.81 ha, 26.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Kilclare Lower 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.

• 20 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention of existing septic tank and percolation area serving existing dwelling house.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0087

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention of the following; single storey extension to rear of dwelling house, conversion of garage space incorporated into ground floor of existing dwelling to habitable accommodation, alteration to external fenestration, detached garage, all as constructed and permission for new treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6609

• 21 Mar 2019Conditional

  Retention of granny flat extension to dwelling and retention of domestic garage

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4695

• 17 Dec 2013Conditional

  Demolition of the existing rear porch and construction of a new two-storey extension to an existing dwellinghouse with a new single storey detached garage including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6399

• 18 Dec 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13173

• 5 Sept 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10764

• 15 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10301

• 26 May 2006Conditional

  Demolition of extension and construction of extension to dwelling and installation of biocycle unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7519

• 2 May 2006Incompleted application

  Demolition of extension and construction of new extension to dwellinghouse and installation of biocycle treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6794

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO045-151 Souterrain
  Description

  In the back garden of a private dwelling, a subterranean structure, possibly a souterrain, was discovered under a flower bed by the owner. The structure is not accessible and only visible through a roughly circular opening (0.70m EW; 0.80m NS) obstructed by a metal sheet strongly embedded within the top soil to the NW and SE of the opening. Other debris were found when the monument was first discovered, suggesting that those and the metal sheet were used to cover up the underground chamber, perhaps when it was first discovered in the past. The current house used to be part of a blacksmith's forge marked ‘Smithy’ on the 25-inch OS map, and while it is not indicated to be a forge on the 1st edition 6-inch map, a longer E-W building is represented, which may have stood over the souterrain.    A number of flat stones embedded around the opening c. 0.27m down from the current ground level may represent the lintel stones (T c. 0.07m) that would have roofed the souterrain. Despite the obstruction created by the metal sheet, it was possible to take some photographs of walled surfaces which may represent the S and W walls of a subterranean chamber. The chamber appears to be oriented E-W (L c. 1.10m, Wth c. 0.95; D c. 0.55m). Based on the photographs that could be taken, there appeared to be roughly four to five courses of stones on the S and W sides of the chamber.  There is no recorded ringfort or early monument recorded in the direct vicinity of the souterrain, but the remains of the medieval parish church of Knockmourne and its associated graveyard are located c. 75m to the south (CO045-031002- and CO045-031001-).   Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye    Date of upload: 24 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilclare Lower.

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 Kilclare Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Kilclare Lower · Coill an Chláir Íochtarach

Area

443,860 m² (44.39 ha, 109.68 acres)

Civil parish

Knockmourne, and its townlands

Barony

Kinatalloon

Electoral division

Knockmourne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockmourne electoral division: 1,415 people in 481 households; 78% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghern East, Ballybride Lower, Clashaganniv, Glebe, Kilclare Upper

Placenames

Kilclare Lower 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.