Knockacluggin
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an Chloiginn
- Area
- 299.8 ha
- 741 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 55,312 m² (5.53 ha, 13.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacluggin, from 755 m² to 530,829 m² (53.08 ha, 131.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockacluggin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jun 2011Conditional
The development will consist of amendments to the permitted Knockacummer Windfarm (PL.Reg. Reg. 04/8354; Pl.04.210685 and Pl.Reg.10/5211) to comprise of modifications to the permitted internal access road network including a)omission of sections of previously permitted internal road, b) upgrade and change of use of existing forestry roads and c) construction of new sections of road; modifications to underground internal cable route; extension of and modifications to permitted on-site substation compound (to consist of 2 no. separate control buildings for ESB and BGE and electrical equipment etc.) and provision of on-site water and wastewater storage tanks and associated infrastructure.
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5246
16 Jun 2010Refused
Construction of additional site access road, adjoining spur road & associated works for the purpose of turbine delivery to the south of the permitted Knockacummer Windfarm (Ref.No. 04/8354 & ABP Ref.NO. 04.210685)
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5496
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
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
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockacluggin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockacluggin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Knockacluggin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockacluggin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockacluggin · Cnoc an Chloiginn
- Area
- 2,997,620 m² (299.76 ha, 740.73 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
- Inchantotane, Knockacummer, Meentinny West, Taurbeg, Taurmore, Tooreendermot
- Placenames
- Knockacluggin 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.