Knockardfree
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbrin, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc Ard Fraoigh
- Area
- 151.7 ha
- 375 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 6,031 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockardfree, from 587 m² to 378,331 m² (37.83 ha, 93.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Knockardfree 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
12 Feb 2019Conditional
To construct a dwelling house and garage with related site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority in relation to this application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4314
22 Nov 2016Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6903
18 Oct 2011Unconditional
Completion of hay shed as permitted under Planning Reg. No. 07/7988
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6226
25 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of 2 no. mono pitched agricultural cattle sheds with slatted slurry tanks, extension to existing lean-to, construction of uncovered slatted slurry tank, silage slab, manure slab and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8976
21 May 2007Conditional
Construction of hay shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7988
20 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Construction of a hay shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7184
26 May 2006Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7540
12 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6325
31 May 2005Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3743
4 Feb 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/547
29 Nov 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8755
15 Apr 2004Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2511
13 Apr 2004Conditional
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/2412
13 Jun 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/2911
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockardfree.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockardfree.
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 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 Knockardfree.
- 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 Knockardfree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockardfree · Cnoc Ard Fraoigh
- Area
- 1,517,253 m² (151.73 ha, 374.92 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
- Ballybahallagh, Bawnmore South, Cloghboola, Coolageela East, Curraghs, Garrison
- Placenames
- Knockardfree 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.