Knockalohert
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbrin, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an Lóthairt
- Area
- 123.8 ha
- 306 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,868 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockalohert, from 223 m² to 492,316 m² (49.23 ha, 121.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Knockalohert 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
26 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for Retention of :- 1) First floor extension and alterations to the existing dwelling granted permission under Pl.Reg.No. 93/990, 2) Single storey extension built to rear of the dwelling, 3) Detached domestic garage/study, 4) Detached domestic shed, and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1403
10 May 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4848
9 Apr 2021Conditional
To construct a dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4905
28 Sept 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11302
14 Aug 2007Conditional
Conversion of atttic and installation of dormer windows and rooflights to dwellinghouse and construction of detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10257
20 Jul 2007Incompleted application
Attic conversion of and installation of gable, dormer windows and rooflights to dwelling and construction of detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9747
23 Oct 2006Conditional
Retention of sunroom extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11645
26 Jan 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4345
5 Oct 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7246
31 Aug 2005Incompleted application
Dormer bungalow, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6279
23 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3487
16 Feb 2005Conditional
Bungalow
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/822
25 Nov 2004Conditional
Underground cattle pass
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8672
20 Apr 2004Conditional
2 no. dwellings
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/2622
27 May 2003Conditional
Dormer bungalow, garage and biocycle treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2519
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 Knockalohert.
Recorded monuments
- CO015-210 Burnt mound
Description
On a gentle N-facing slope, in the corner of a field recently planted with trees. An oval mound (diam. 9m; H c. 0.5m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil covered with overgrowth. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO015-211 Burnt mound
Description
In boggy ground which has been recently planted with trees, on a gentle SE-facing slope. A spread of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil covered with grass and rushes. The extent of this spread could not be determined. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO015-212 Burnt mound
Description
In marshy ground, recently planted with trees, on a gentle SE-facing slope. A spread of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil densely covered with grass and rushes. The extent of the spread could not be determined. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
- House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular house, built c. 1810, with two-bay single-storey addition to rear, and gabled porch to front elevation. Hipped roof, thatched to front and corrugated-iron to rear, with rendered rubble limestone chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window and door openings having replacement uPVC fittings. Recent corrugated-iron built open-sided barn to north. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched corrugated-iron roof, corrugated-iron walls and square-headed corrugated-iron and timber battened doors. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate to west of house, and painted rendered piers to south.
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 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 Knockalohert.
- 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 Knockalohert with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockalohert · Cnoc an Lóthairt
- Area
- 1,238,148 m² (123.81 ha, 305.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbrin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Kilbrin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbrin electoral division: 365 people in 132 households; 85% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygrady North, Ballygrady South, Castlecor Demesne, Kilbarry, Knockballymartin, Lackeel, Mahanagh, Rathnagard
- Placenames
- Knockalohert 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.