Knockanare
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish An Coinigéar
- Area
- 133.9 ha
- 331 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 2,214 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 53
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanare, from 469 m² to 281,483 m² (28.15 ha, 69.56 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 Knockanare 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
19 Jun 2026F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation
Permission to construct a domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1635
21 Dec 2022Conditional
Installation of a cattle underpass and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6832
22 Apr 2021Conditional
To construct domestic shed.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5055
16 Apr 2021Conditional
The construction of a two storey detached dwelling house, single storey detached garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary site works. Access to the proposed development will be provided via an existing entrance from the L-2752 local road.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4999
31 Mar 2021Incompleted application
To construct domestic shed.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4820
10 Mar 2021Incompleted application
To construct domestic shed.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4604
10 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission to retain 1. Cubicle house No 2, with existing underground effluent storage tank 2. Extension to existing silage slab and permission to extend cubicle house No 1, with a proposed underground storage effluent tank including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4616
21 Nov 2019Withdrawn
The construction of a two storey detached dwelling house, single storey detached garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary site works. Access to the proposed development will be provided via an existing entrance from the L-2752 local road.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6780
2 Aug 2019Conditional
Construction of single storey extension to front of dwelling, associated elevational treatment and site works (change of plan to part of development permitted under Planning Reg. No. 17/5904)
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5956
17 Jun 2019Incompleted application
Alterations to permitted planning application reference number 17/5904 which will consist of the construction of a revised single storey extension to replace the permitted storey and a half extension and all associated elevational treatment and site works in accordance with plans and documents submitted.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5587
12 Nov 2018Conditional
Construct dwellinghouse, garage with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6976
23 Aug 2018Conditional
Retain dwellinghouse and domestic garage with all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6224
23 Jul 2018Withdrawn
Construct a dwellinghouse, garage with associate site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5926
1 Jun 2018Conditional
Retention permission for the removal of a road boundary and permission for the construction of a 2 storey detached dwellinghouse with private well, single storey detached garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary site works. The development proposes the reinstatement of the roadside boundary and access will be provided via an existing entrance from the public road.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5434
24 Aug 2017Refused
Retention for the removal of a road boundary and Permission for the construction of a 2 storey detached dwelling house with private well, single storey detached garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6201
24 Jul 2017Conditional
Retention of as built rear extension, Permission for alterations to existing dwelling house including demolition of part of existing dwellinghouse and construction of new one and half storey extension to existing dwelling house in lieu thereof together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5904
26 Jun 2017Incompleted application
The construction of a 2 storey detached dwellinghouse with private well, single storey detached garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5610
23 Sept 2016Withdrawn
Alterations to existing dwellinghouse, demolition of part of existing dwellinghouse and construction of new one and a half storey extension to existing dwellinghouse together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6353
7 Sept 2016Incompleted application
Alterations to existing dwellinghouse, demolition of part of existing dwellinghouse and construction of new extension to existing dwellinghouse together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6236
24 Jun 2014Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5344
3 Apr 2013Conditional
Extension to front of house, provision of balcony to side elevation, conversion of attic space and alterations to existing roof
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4584
6 Mar 2013Incompleted application
Extension to front of house, conversion of attic space and alterations to existing roof
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4366
1 Aug 2012Unconditional
Construction of dwellinghouse - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/5742
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5673
22 Feb 2012Unconditional
dormer dwelling house, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/6202
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/4298
6 Aug 2010Conditional
Alterations and extension to rear of existing cottage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5987
The 25 most recent of 53 applications.
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 Knockanare.
Recorded monuments
- CO061-047 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on S side of stream. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 14m; Wth 14m; H 1.2m); opening faces NNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO061-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough grazing land, on N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m). Interior partially overgrown with ferns. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO061-049 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. Beside farm laneway. Stone (H 0.82m; 0.33m x 0.22m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis N-S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO061-050 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Circular area (diam. 30m) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.9m) with external fosse (D 1.2m). Break in bank to W. Hartnett (1939, 198) noted 'traces of an outer rampart'; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO061-052 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured D-shaped area; straight axis E-W (25m), projecting to S (30m); limekiln inside SW bank. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Hartnett (1939, 198) '...ringfort....levelled, but traces of the rampart can still be seen; diameter about 100 feet'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Knockanare.
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 Knockanare.
- 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 Knockanare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockanare · An Coinigéar
- Area
- 1,339,464 m² (133.95 ha, 330.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Kilcullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcullen electoral division: 888 people in 285 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycunningham, Ballygirriha, Derry, Reagrellagh
- Placenames
- Knockanare 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.