Knockacappul

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacappul, from 669 m² to 421,963 m² (42.2 ha, 104.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Knockacappul 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.

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  (1) For retention of existing front porch to existing dwelling (2) To demolish existing single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling and (3) For renovations to existing dwelling including the construction of a new 2-storey extension to the rear of same dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6489

• 15 Mar 2021Withdrawn

  To construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4658

• 10 Jul 2019Incompleted application

  Construction of part two storey/part single storey dwelling house with attached garage, wastewater treatment plant and associated services and site entrance.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5748

• 5 Jun 2019Incompleted application

  Development will consist of construction of a two storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment plant and associated services and site entrance.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5485

• 1 Mar 2013Conditional

  Retention of dormer type building used for domestic storage

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4335

• 15 Feb 2013Incompleted application

  Retention of dormer type building

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4252

• 1 Feb 2013Incompleted application

  Retention of garage to side of dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4167

• 4 May 2010Conditional

  Retention of existing sheep house, domestic carport, domestic garage, timber shed and ancillary works as constructed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5051

• 23 Apr 2010Incompleted application

  Retention of existing sheep house, domestic carport, domestic garage, timber shed & ancillary works as constructed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4975

• 2 Feb 2010Conditional

  Construction of a sheep housing shed, a farm machinery storage shed, an uncovered silage slab, an uncovered dungstead, an underground effluent storage tank, a hard surface passageway and entrance for agricultural purposes and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4171

• 25 Aug 2008Refused

  Dwelling & wastewater treatment unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/8546

• 27 Mar 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5702

• 30 Mar 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6704

• 14 Jul 2006Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8889

• 23 Nov 2005Conditional

  Loose house and underground effluent tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12625

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 Knockacappul.

Recorded monuments

• CO026-163 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Possible ringfort (CO026-168---) c. 200m to NE. 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

• CO026-164 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Enclosure (13777) c. 45m to NE. 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

• CO026-165 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of subcircular enclosure (c. 30m N-S) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); N side linear with trace of second outer fosse; curved elsewhere. Circular enclosure (13588) c. 45m to SW. 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

• CO026-167 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of D-shaped enclosure (straight side to N c. 40m E-W; projecting c. 40m to S) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). North end crossed by linear cropmark, probably field fence. 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

• CO026-168 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) visible in aerial photograph as cropmark of bank E->W; external fosse clearly visible c. E->N and barely visible elsewhere. 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 Knockacappul.

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 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 Knockacappul.

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

Name

Knockacappul · Cnoc an Chapaill

Area

750,599 m² (75.06 ha, 185.48 acres)

Civil parish

Wallstown, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Wallstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Wallstown electoral division: 270 people in 89 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annesgrove, Ballygriggan, Ballyhimock, Doonawanly, Loughquin

Placenames

Knockacappul 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.