Knockardrahan
Knockardrahan is a townland in the civil parish of Dromtarriff, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Ard Raithin.
- Area
- 193.3 ha
- 478 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 5,624 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockardrahan, from 95 m² to 564,552 m² (56.46 ha, 139.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Knockardrahan 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
27 Jul 2020Conditional
Extension to dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5589
11 Sept 2019Conditional
Construct new entrance and access road (on the site of existing entrance) into existing forestry plantation.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6231
18 Jun 2015Conditional
Permission to retain as constructed domestic garage and permission to construct a fuel store at side of dwelling and permission to relocate existing entrance to north western side of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5320
4 Jun 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and installation of sewage treatment unit and associated site services
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5825
18 May 2009Conditional
Construction of porch extension to front of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5599
28 Apr 2009Incompleted application
Dwelling house, domestic garage, associated sewage treatment unit & associated site services
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5323
22 Apr 2009Incompleted application
Construction of porch extension to front of property
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5267
16 Jul 2008Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, garage and wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7920
21 Apr 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse,garage, treatment unit & associated site services
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6195
3 Apr 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5818
22 Feb 2006Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5011
24 Jan 2006Incompleted application
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4270
24 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3541
5 May 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2993
18 Mar 2005Conditional
Farm buildings to include silage base, effluent tank, milking parlour, dairy, collecting yard, cattle crush, extension to cubicle house to contain cubicles and loose cattle area, geomembrane lined lagoon, slatted beef house and retention of cow cubicle house and feeding passage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1646
24 Feb 2005Incompleted application
Farm buildings
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1047
21 Feb 2005Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/948
11 Jun 2004Conditional
Bungalow and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4263
11 Jun 2004Refused
Bungalow and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4255
19 Mar 2004Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1853
9 Dec 2003Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6293
24 Jan 2003Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/252
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 Knockardrahan.
Recorded monuments
- CO030-067 Fulacht fia
Description
Bowman (1934, 323) recorded a fulacht fiadh on M. Byrne's land noting that 'the burned stones on the surface have been removed'. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO031-118 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, adjacent to spring (now drained) and c. 30m N of stream. According to local information, burnt material noted here. No visible surface trace. Possibly one of two fulachta fiadh (see 11146) recorded by Bowman (1934, 323) on C. Smith's land. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Ardrahan House, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, facing south and having slightly lower two-bay return to rear with two-bay lean-to addition to north gable. Hipped slate roof to main block, pithced and having decoratively carved timber bargeboards to return gable, with rendered chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered plinth course to front and side elevations of main block, with cast-iron floor vents. Square-headed window openings having uPVC windows, and some one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to return and rear elevation, with painted sills. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door with decorative cast-iron door furniture, and overlight, formerly having gabled porch to front. Outbuildings to rear forming two sides of rectangular courtyard, comprising multiple-bay single-storey and four-bay two-storey buildings, latter converted to domestic accommodation, having pitched slate roofs, sandstone rubble walls, and mainly square-headed openings. Two-storey building also having replacement uPVC windows and doors, one in segmental-arched former vehicular entrance. Curved entrance having painted rendered walls with inner and outer square-plan piers with render string courses, pyramidal caps and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gate.
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 Knockardrahan, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_561 (ZIP).
- 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 Knockardrahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockardrahan · Cnoc Ard Raithin
- Area
- 1,933,265 m² (193.33 ha, 477.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromtarriff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Coolclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 399 people lived in 139 households in the Coolclogh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolclogh, Garranbaun, Killeenleagh, Killinane, Knockaneroe, Lisnacon
- Placenames
- Knockardrahan 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.