Knockaneleigh
Knockaneleigh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbonane, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Cnocán Liath.
- Area
- 115.4 ha
- 285 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 4,116 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaneleigh, from 346 m² to 350,043 m² (35 ha, 86.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockaneleigh 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
22 Apr 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4724
2 Sept 2022Conditional
Partially convert and extend existing domestic garage for use as a granny flat adjacent to existing dwelling, and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5991
29 Jul 2022Incompleted application
Partially convert and extend existing domestic garage for use as a granny flat adjacent to existing dwelling, and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5796
15 Oct 2021Conditional
Construct (A) a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, on-site sewerage treatment and (B) an agricultural shed incorporating a farm machinery storage area and a straw storage area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6816
24 Jan 2019Conditional
To construct a cattle underpass with an effluent tank and ancillary works on a public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4126
12 Jun 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5941
20 May 2009Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling house, garage & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5624
30 Mar 2007Conditional
Bungalow and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6633
8 Nov 2005Refused
Dwelling and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8207
6 Jul 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/4794
8 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1381
23 Aug 2004Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6411
11 Aug 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6132
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 Knockaneleigh.
Recorded monuments
- CO084-106 Fulacht fia
Description
In reclaimed pasture. Shown on 1943 OS 6-inch map as mound. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockaneleigh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Knockaneleigh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockaneleigh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockaneleigh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockaneleigh · An Cnocán Liath
- Area
- 1,154,250 m² (115.43 ha, 285.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbonane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Kilbonane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,344 people lived in 415 households in the Kilbonane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymountain, Knockaphreaghane, Knocknahilan, Rearour, Scart Upper
- Placenames
- Knockaneleigh 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.