Knockanoran
Knockanoran is a townland in the civil parish of Kilkerranmore, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Fhuaráin.
- Area
- 32.5 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 12,384 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanoran, from 366 m² to 203,053 m² (20.31 ha, 50.18 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 Knockanoran 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
9 Jun 2021Conditional
Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/389
24 Aug 2007Conditional
Dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/2272
29 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/1753
1 Dec 2006Refused
Dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/2582
4 Sept 2006Conditional
Extend and alter existing dwellinghouse and install solar panels; change of use, extend and alter part of outbuildings to granny flat and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1774
1 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1770
9 Aug 2000New application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/4855
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 Knockanoran.
Recorded monuments
- CO134-029 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (18.9m N-S; 18.5m E-W) enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank (H 1.6m). Breaks in bank to NE (Wth 1.4m) and NNW (Wth 1.8m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Knockanoran.
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 Knockanoran, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockanoran.
- 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 Knockanoran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockanoran · Cnoc an Fhuaráin
- Area
- 325,230 m² (32.52 ha, 80.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkerranmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Argideen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 382 people lived in 139 households in the Argideen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bealad East, Castleventry, Coolnagay, Coorleigh North, Woodfield
- Placenames
- Knockanoran 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.