Knockakeo

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockakeo, from 4,197 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) to 182,848 m² (18.28 ha, 45.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Knockakeo 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.

• 12 Jul 2022Conditional

  Construction of detached family apartment in association with existing detached cottage and family home, including improved site-entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5626

• 25 Apr 2006Incompleted application

  36m high telecommunications structure with 3 no. panel antennae and 2 no. 0.6m link dishes with ancillary equipment container, pallisade fencing and access track

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6637

• 8 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Erection of 36m high telecommunications structure with 3 no. panel antennae and 2 no. 0.6m link dishes with ancillary equipment container, pallisade fencing and access track

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9062

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 Knockakeo.

Recorded monuments

• CO055-016001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At edge of forest with good view of Galtee Mountains to N. Spring enclosed by clochan-type structure; crowned with wooden cross. Still in holy use. 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

• CO055-016002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Outside NE wall of holy well (CO055-016001-). Sandstone block embedded in ground with central depression (L 0.45m; Wth 0.4m; D 0.1m). 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockakeo.

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 Knockakeo, 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 high, 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 Knockakeo.

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

Name

Knockakeo · Cnoc an Cheo

Area

1,195,610 m² (119.56 ha, 295.44 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynoe, and its townlands

Barony

Kinatalloon

Electoral division

Ballynoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

778 people lived in 261 households in the Ballynoe electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock, Ballynattin, Clonmult, Condonstown, Garraneribbeen, Garryduff, Shanaboola

Placenames

Knockakeo 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.