# Kilclare Lower, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockmourne, barony of Kinatalloon, Co. Cork; in Irish Coill an Chláir Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 443,860 m² (44.39 ha, 109.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,041 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockmourne, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/knockmourne.md - Barony: Kinatalloon - Electoral division: Knockmourne, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10350 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 43332 - Centre: latitude 52.092905, longitude -8.131909 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilclare Lower, from 322 m² to 108,134 m² (10.81 ha, 26.72 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2329994: 108,134 m² (10.81 ha, 26.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329994.md - Parcel 2329995: 100,158 m² (10.02 ha, 24.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329995.md - Parcel 2153658: 92,634 m² (9.26 ha, 22.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153658.md - Parcel 2153656: 81,720 m² (8.17 ha, 20.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153656.md - Parcel 3352864: 69,031 m² (6.9 ha, 17.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3352864.md - Parcel 2153657: 41,889 m² (4.19 ha, 10.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153657.md - Parcel 3318355: 4,122 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3318355.md - Parcel 2153659: 3,079 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153659.md - Parcel 2329996: 3,004 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329996.md - Parcel 2153662: 1,178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153662.md - Parcel 2153660: 787 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153660.md - Parcel 2329998: 758 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329998.md - Parcel 2153661: 615 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153661.md - Parcel 2534887: 499 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2534887.md - Parcel 2153663: 464 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2153663.md - Parcel 2329997: 322 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2329997.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 20 Jan 2026, Cork County Council 26/0087: Grant with conditions. Permission for retention. Permission for retention of existing septic tank and percolation area serving existing dwelling house.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/0087 - 22 Dec 2023, Cork County Council 23/6609: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/6609 - 21 Mar 2019, Cork County Council 19/4695: Conditional. Retention. Retention of granny flat extension to dwelling and retention of domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/4695 - 17 Dec 2013, Cork County Council 13/6399: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/6399 - 18 Dec 2007, Cork County Council 07/13173: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/13173 - 5 Sept 2007, Cork County Council 07/10764: Incompleted application. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/10764 - 15 Aug 2007, Cork County Council 07/10301: Incompleted application. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/10301 - 26 May 2006, Cork County Council 06/7519: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of extension and construction of extension to dwelling and installation of biocycle unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/7519 - 2 May 2006, Cork County Council 06/6794: Incompleted application. Permission. Demolition of extension and construction of new extension to dwellinghouse and installation of biocycle treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/6794 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO045-151: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO045-151----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilclare Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilclare-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilclare-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilclare-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghern East: https://everytownland.com/cork/aghern-east.md - Ballybride Lower: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballybride-lower.md - Clashaganniv: https://everytownland.com/cork/clashaganniv.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/cork/glebe-42837.md - Kilclare Upper: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilclare-upper.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilclare-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/kilclare-lower