Knockadoon

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockadoon, from 51 m² to 55,818 m² (5.58 ha, 13.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Knockadoon 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.

• 15 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to demolish existing detached garage and to erect a single storey side and rear extension, new front porch, including alterations to the front elevation of existing dwelling, also to erect a new detached domestic garage & all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0943

• 11 Mar 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission to demolish existing detached garage and to erect a single storey side and rear extension, new front porch, including alterations to the front elevation of existing dwelling, new detached domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0594

• 1 Jul 2022Conditional

  planning permission to construct a new dwelling house (change of layout and design from that granted under planning ref 20/5807)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5554

• 21 Aug 2020Conditional

  To construct a storey and a half style dwellinghouse, single storey domestic garage, recessed site entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5807

• 14 May 2019Conditional

  The construction of single storey detached dwelling with associated single storey detached garage and including all associated site works, drainage works and associated landscaping.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5205

• 21 Dec 2015Conditional

  To demolish existing two storey dwelling and ancillary sheds and to construct a storey and a half style dwelling along with single storey garage and a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6928

• 22 May 2014Conditional

  Demolition of existing games hall and its replacement with a new building, for use as part of an existing youth group facility, incorporating games hall with living and accommodation areas and ancillary office and shop and mezzanine storage area, alterations to existing adjacent chapel building and associated site works and services including landscaping and courtyard area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5077

• 18 Jan 2010Refused

  Dwelling, entrance and wastewater treatment system

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 10/4071

• 11 Mar 2009Conditional

  Construction of single storey extension to rear of existing cottage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4769

• 10 Feb 2009Conditional

  Demolition of existing fishermen's storage units and construction of 11 no. single storey fishermen's storage units

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4393

• 28 May 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6980

• 11 Oct 2007Conditional

  Single storey garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11603

• 9 Mar 2007Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/5888

• 14 Jul 2006Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of one and a half storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8920

• 16 Jun 2006Incompleted application

  Demolition of cottage and construction of one and half storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8155

• 31 May 2006Conditional

  Construction of attached granny flat and retention of extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7703

• 26 Apr 2006Incompleted application

  Retention of extension to dwellinghouse and construction of granny flat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6652

• 11 Oct 2005Conditional

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7425

• 7 Oct 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/7333

• 23 May 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/3513

• 16 Mar 2005Conditional

  Restoration and extension to derelict cottage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1595

• 1 Jun 2004Conditional

  Construction of general purpose hall

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3931

• 26 May 2004Conditional

  Dwelling and waste water treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3671

• 16 Apr 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2545

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Capel Island And Knockadoon Head 000083

Recorded monuments

• CO078-015 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated at the base of a small short promontory\peninsula jutting out to the S side of Knockadoon Head, c. 785m SW of the tip of Knockadoon Head (OD c. 41m). Located c. 128m NNW of the coastline at its closest point. Set at the top of a gentle slope that leads down to the coastline to the S, W and SW with level terrain to the N. The surrounding area consists of unenclosed rough pasture to the immediate S, SW and E (between this site and the coastline) with pastureland and arable fields to the N defined by linear field boundaries. The adjacent stations in the signal station\tower chain were located at Ballymacotter (CO089-048----), located c. 15.1kms to the WSW, which survives in good condition and is now incorporated into a modern dwelling, and at Ardmore, Waterford (WA040-024----), located c. 13.15kms to the ENE, where a heavily modified structure survives extant. The signal station\tower at Knockadoon. Is located c. 445m WSW of a coastal promontory fort (CO078-042----) located a short distance to the S tip of Knockadoon Head, and c. 3.5kms ESE of a church (CO78-004002-) set in an associated graveyard (CO78-004001-) at Ballymacoda. An early-nineteenth-century (c. 1804-5) two-storey over partial raised basement square-plan signal station\tower (ext. dims. c. 5.7m NW-SE x c. 5.8m NE-SW; int. dims. c. 4.2m NW-SE x c. 4.2m NE-SW), built with roughly coursed rubble stone masonry. The walls of the signal tower face to the NE, SE, SW, and NW. The signal tower is well-preserved and survives to its original full height (H. c. 9m). Exterior elevations are lime rendered with extensive sections of weather-slating still insitu, particularly to the upper levels. Cut stone coping survives over most sections of the parapet walls. The doorway is located to the centre of the SE elevation at first floor level, and would have been accessed via a retractable ladder. The doorway retains a cut stone sill\threshold to the base. The doorway is protected by a brick rectangular machicolation over supported on three angle stone corbels. The NE and SW elevations each feature two square-headed window openings at both ground and first floor levels, some of which retain cut stone sills. The window opening to the SE end of the NE elevation has been subsequently opened up to form a doorway. A chimneystack rose from the centre of the rear (NW) elevation, now collapsed; this may have been built of brick as the upper level of the chimney flue are partially constructed of brick. Brick bartizans are located on the corners of the rear elevation (NW) each supported on three cut stone corbels. Unusually (for a building of its type and date) the walls of the machicolation and the bartizans over the corners are constructed of red brick; this may reflect a period of repair or it may be original. Lime render survives to some sections of the interior walls; central fireplaces to the NW elevation. Kerrigan established that a signal mast and the signal station\tower were completed in 1804 (Kerrigan 1995, 277). It is unclear whether the signal station was originally enclosed; it is depicted on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2, as being located within a small rectangular-plan enclosure (ext. dims c. 42m NW-SE x c. 29m SW-NE) but subsequent maps show the enclosure may have been part of an evolving field system. Some sections of rubble stone walling surrounding the structure are remnants of these field boundaries. The Ordnance Survey twenty-five inch map of the site, c. 1901, shows the structure within a rectangular-plan enclosure (ext. dims c. 105m NW-SE x c. 24m SW-NE) that widens to the NW end (max ext. dims. c. 42m SW-NE) and has a rounded end to the SE; this rounded end to the seaward side is a feature of many of the enclosures surrounding signal station sites. A well-preserved World War II-era reinforced concrete Lookout Post (LOP 21) is located c. 30m SE of the signal station\tower and a recently restored ’21 Eire’ sign, dating to the same period, is located to the SW of the site. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 27/09/22

• CO078-031 House - vernacular house
  Description

  Roadside. Front (N) of 3 bays. Gable-ended thatched roof; chimneys on gables. Sash windows with glazing bars, attic window in W gable. Central porch entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO078-032 House - vernacular house
  Description

  Roadside. Front (W) of 4 bays; off-centre doorway to right. Hipped roof; thatched; off-centre chimney to left. Window in N and S end walls. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO078-042 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors to front (north) and rear (south) elevations. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to front yard, single-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear yard, both with pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings.

• House, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1750, having two-bay lean-to extension to rear (north-east) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Battered rendered walls. Square-headed openings throughout, with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation and to north-west elevation, four-pane fixed window to rear elevation, and replacement timber pivoting windows and uPVC door to front (south-west) elevation. Three single-bay single-storey outbuildings to yard to rear, having pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Metal double-leaf vehicular gate to yard entrance, metal pedestrian gate and rendered garden wall to front of house. Metal double-leaf vehicular gate to field, flanked by square-profile rendered piers.

• House, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic accommodation thatched house, built c. 1750, having single-bay flat-roofed porch to front (north) elevation, and two-bay lean-to extension to rear (south) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Battered rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window, timber casement window and fixed-pane windows to front elevation, replacement timber pivoting window to east gable. Square-headed opening with replacement uPVC door to front porch. Square-headed openings with replacement aluminium windows and door to rear elevation. Single-bay and three-bay single-storey outbuildings to yard to rear, having corrugated metal roofs, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber battened half-doors.

• Signal tower, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ruinous remains of square-profile two-stage signal tower, built c. 1805, having red brick machicolation on rubble stone corbelled brackets to front (south) elevation and red brick bartizans on rubble stone corbelled brackets to north-east and north-west corners. Recent flat roof covering set within walls. Rubble stone walls with weather slating. Square-headed door opening to first floor of front elevation with rubble stone voussoirs. Square-headed window openings to east and west elevations and square-headed door opening to east elevation. Length of rubble stone boundary wall to north. Single-bay single-storey concrete look-out post, built c. 1940, to south having canted front (south) elevation. Comprising flat roof, concrete walls and square-headed openings.

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 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 Knockadoon.

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

Name

Knockadoon · Cnoc an Dúin

Area

1,018,700 m² (101.87 ha, 251.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacdonogh, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Kilmacdonogh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmacdonogh electoral division: 1,034 people in 370 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyskibbole, Glenawilling

Placenames

Knockadoon 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.