Knock

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knock, from 19 m² to 300,014 m² (30 ha, 74.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knock 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.

• 27 Sept 2010Conditional

  A wind farm consisting of 38 no. wind turbines with a maximum ground to top blade tip height of up to 136.5 metres with ancillary structures, 4 borrow pits, 1 no. permanent meteorological mast, 1 no. substation, upgrading of existing roads/access trakcs, underground cabling and provision of new access track and new entrances onto public roads and all associated infrastructure (at the Boggeragh Mountains in the townlands of Ballynagree East, Carrigagulla, Annagannihy, Knocknagoun, Kilcullen North, Barrahaurin, Commeenaplaw, Meenahony, Gowlane North, Carrigduff, Crinaloo South, Inchamay South, Glenaneatnagh South, Nadanuller Beg and Knock)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8067

• 22 Jan 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary treatment unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/4261

• 3 Dec 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary treatment unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/12805

• 21 Dec 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted cattle house with 3 no. underground slurry tanks and silage slab

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13644

• 30 Nov 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of slatted cattle house with slurry tanks and silage slab

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12844

• 15 Aug 2003Conditional

  Demolition of extension, construction of alterations, extensions, raising roof of dwelling and conversion of garage to self contained unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4113

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knock.

Recorded monuments

• CO040-109 Standing stone
  Description

  On SE-facing slope, on W side of Glen River valley. Bowman (1934, 250) recorded two 'dallans', aligned E-W, seven feet apart. East stone was '5ft 9in by 3ft 1in by 1ft 10in'; W stone was '5ft 8in by 2ft 2in by 1ft 5in'. According to local information, two stones formerly set parallel either side of gap; removed in 1970s. No visible surface trace. (pers. comm. Paul Walsh) 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

• CO049-001 Standing stone
  Description

  In uneven scrub beside townland boundary. Removed. May be stone (L 2.5m; 0.7m x 0.7m) now lying beside field fence. Recorded in OS Field Books of 1838 and 1840 as 'Cloughbawn "White Stone"...about 6 feet high' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 221). According to Bowman (1934, 250), 'Cloch Bhan' referred to c. 40 acres on SE of townland, in which stood the stone; he also noted standing stone as 'broken and removed'. 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 Knock.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knock, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Knock · An Cnoc

Area

930,749 m² (93.07 ha, 229.99 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmeen, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Nad, the unit of the census

Census 2022

98 people lived in 39 households in the Nad electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenaknockane, Glentaneatnagh South, Monanveel, Nadanuller Beg, Nadanuller More

Placenames

Knock 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.