Knockacullen
Townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an Chuilinn
- Area
- 155.1 ha
- 383 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 23,806 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockacullen, from 653 m² to 305,841 m² (30.58 ha, 75.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Knockacullen 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
8 Aug 2017Conditional
Construct a cattle house with two no. slatted slurry tanks and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/515
16 Apr 2015Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse and retention of 2no. storehouses
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/199
30 Oct 2012Unconditional
Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of a waste water treatment plant unit and associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/668
8 Oct 2012Conditional
A) Permission to construct dwelling and detached garage B) Retention and relocation of mobile home (to be removed upon completion of the proposed dwelling) C) Retention and relocation of septic tank and replacement of percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/631
11 Oct 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, installation of waste water treatment plant unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2621
9 Mar 2007Conditional
Construct cattle house with slatted slurry tank, feeding yard, concrete cow path, concrete apron, dry yard and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/646
3 Nov 2006Conditional
Construct calf house, concrete apron and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2303
6 Sept 2006Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1796
1 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Retention of dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1550
12 May 2006Conditional
Cattle house with slatted slurry tanks, concrete aprons and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/842
1 Mar 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1293
14 Nov 2003Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5645
20 Jun 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3040
17 Dec 2001Conditional
Construction of cattle house with slatted tanks and a silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6761
16 Nov 2001Conditional
Construction of cattle house with slatted tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6280
25 May 2001Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/2972
6 Apr 2001Conditional
Extension to dwelling & installation of septic tank & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1859
30 Mar 2000Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1806
11 Jan 2000Conditional
2 no. dwellinghouses
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/77
26 Feb 1999Conditional
Bungalow
Approval · Cork County Council, 99/911
24 Apr 1998Conditional
Construction of 4 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 98/1682
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockacullen.
Recorded monuments
- CO108-061 Enclosure
Description
In hilly pasture, on SW-facing slope. Hachured on O.S. map (1842) as square enclosure. Roughly circular area (48m N-S; 60m E-W) defined by eroded bank with trace of external fosse to NE; uneven surface SE->S; scarp (H 0.9m) elsewhere. Break in scarp (Wth 7m) to WNW. Levelled c. 1978. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO108-062 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop E-W ridge. Roughly circular area (42m N-S; 46m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m), stone-faced in parts; external fosse (D 0.4m) ESE->SSW. Break in bank to NNE (Wth 3m), ESE (Wth 3m), and W (Wth 3m). Two cairns of field clearance stones dumped in centre of interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Knockacullen.
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 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 Knockacullen.
- 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 Knockacullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockacullen · Cnoc an Chuilinn
- Area
- 1,550,708 m² (155.07 ha, 383.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Knocks, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knocks electoral division: 333 people in 111 households; 88% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carhoovauler, Currabeg, Currane, Kilbeloge, Kilvurra, Shanaway West
- Placenames
- Knockacullen 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.