Knockanenagark

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanenagark, from 654 m² to 327,231 m² (32.72 ha, 80.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knockanenagark 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.

• 24 Nov 2025Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission for; the recommencement of sand and gravel extraction within part of the previously authorised pit (Plan File Ref. No. 11/06269, now expired), over c. 5.6 ha within an overall application area of c. 8.7 ha; extraction will be undertaken on a dry-working basis only, at a rate of up to approximately 60,000 tonnes per annum for a period of 15 years, followed by an additional two years for site restoration purposes; works will include use of the existing access, wheelwash, processing plant and settlement lagoons, together with the provision of a site office and welfare facilities (portaloo); aggregate processing ( crushing, screening, washing), stockpiling and dispatch will be carried out on site; restoration will involve regrading, placement of soils and seeding to return lands to agricultural and biodiversity-led uses. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6571

• 31 Oct 2025Invalid - case closed

  A 15 Year Planning Permission for the recommencement of sand and gravel extraction within part of the previously authorised pit (Plan File Ref. no. 11/06269, now expired), over c. 5.6 ha within an overall application area of c. 8.7 ha. Extraction will be undertaken on a dry-working basis only, at a rate of approximately 60,000 tonnes per annum (c. 630,000 tonnes over 15 years), followed by two years of restoration. Works will include use of the existing access, wheelwash, processing plant and settlement lagoons, together with the provision of a site office and welfare facilities (portaloo). Aggregate processing (crushing, screening, washing), stockpiling and dispatch will be carried out on site. Restoration will involve regrading, placement of soils and seeding to return lands to agricultural and biodiversity led-uses. All for a period of 15 years and with an application area of 8.7 hectares. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will accompany the application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6354

• 28 Jan 2020Conditional

  To construct milking parlour complex, effluent tanks, grain feed bin, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4123

• 4 Dec 2017Incompleted application

  Resumption of extraction and processing of sand and gravel with mobile processing plant, and all ancillary operations within the existing site boundaries ( application area 11.7 HA ) at the existing sand and gravel pit, this will be followed by site restoration/rehabilitation to agricultural use together with ecological habitats. Extension of Duration of permission granted under Planning Ref 11/6269

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 17/7158

• 21 Oct 2011Conditional

  Development will consist of the resumption of extraction and processing of sand and gravel with mobile processing plant, and all ancillary operations within the existing site boundaries (application area 11.7ha) at the existing sand and gravel pit, this will be followed by site restoration/rehabilitation to agricultural use together with ecological habitats.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6269

• 30 Jul 2010Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, installation of a wastewater treatment unit and associated site works and replace existing septic tank with a wastewater treatment unit on adjoining site to serve existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5947

• 19 Dec 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13200

• 13 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9551

• 21 Mar 2007Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6251

• 23 Feb 2007Incompleted application

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5381

• 3 Jun 2003Conditional

  Extension to existing permitted sand and gravel operation (area of C.3.5 hectares)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2694

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 Knockanenagark.

Recorded monuments

• CO061-103001 Earthwork
  Description

  On gravel ridge, to N of and above Dripsey River. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Described by Gillman (1897, 1) as circular platform (diam. 48ft at top; diam. 63ft at base), raised ten feet above surrounding ground level; 'with traces of a fosse round the base'....'known locally as "the mote"....called also a "lios"'. Souterrain (8906) discovered during quarrying activity which had in 1896 already removed one third of platform (ibid., 2). Completely removed due to quarrying in 1937 (Hartnett 1939, 272). 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

• CO061-103002 Souterrain
  Description

  In N half of earthwork (9193). Discovered in 1896 during quarrying and described by Gillman (1897, 1-6). Two stone-built chambers joined by creepway. Chamber 1: wedge-shaped (L 11ft 4in; Wth 3ft-4ft 9in; L 5ft; long axis NW-SE); SE end, destroyed by workmen at time of discovery, had one stone lintel in place. Creepway at centre of NW wall to chamber 2 deliberately blocked at both ends. Chamber 2: (long axis N-S), blocked with sand and stone, not fully explored; S end curved, no stone lintels inplace. Walls in both chambers blackened due to burning; some charcoal and burnt clay found in chamber 2 and surrounding a flat flagstone which Gillman suggested was used as a hearth. Fragment of bone found in chamber 1. 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

• CO061-104 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  In overgrown area on W side of road. Rock (1.39m x 0.38m) with what appear to be shallow natural depressions on upper surface. According to local tradition, depressions are marks left by "St. Abbey", on her way to Ballyvourney. 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 Knockanenagark.

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).

No address of the register names Knockanenagark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Knockanenagark · Cnocán na gCearc

Area

669,285 m² (66.93 ha, 165.38 acres)

Civil parish

Magourney, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Magourney, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Clonmoyle East, Kilcolman, Oldcastle, Tullig More

Placenames

Knockanenagark on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.