Knockaskehane
Townland in the civil parish of Leitrim, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an Sceacháin
- Area
- 90.7 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 4,257 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaskehane, from 416 m² to 320,082 m² (32.01 ha, 79.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Knockaskehane 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
5 Mar 2026F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation
Animal House with Slatted tanks & Associated works. Works are within the curtilage of a protected structure RPS ID 1140.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0526
5 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed
Slatted unit & Associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0237
4 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission to erect a 2 storey dwelling house, detached domestic double garage, on site wastewater treatment system, bored well, entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5325
5 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct a cubicle house over existing slatted tank, calf shed and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5086
26 Jun 2018Conditional
Construct a cattle underpass and ancillary works on a public road, agricultural entrance.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5646
20 Jun 2018Conditional
Construct a cubicle house with slatted tanks, straw bedded house with slatted tanks, machinery shed, extension to silage slab, effluent tank and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5602
2 Feb 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted cubicle house and silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4700
19 Sept 2006Conditional
Demolition of haybarn and construction of calf house, cubicle house, straw bedded house, feeding passage with slatted tank, machinery shed and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10716
17 Feb 2006Withdrawn
Slatted cubicle house and silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4891
11 Aug 2005Conditional
Construction of new milking parlour with roofed collection yard and underground tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5760
29 May 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2575
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Araglin Valley 001029
Recorded monuments
- CO028-029 House - vernacular house
Description
On W side of road. Front (E) of 4 bays; off-centre door to N obscured by modern porch. Hipped roof with thatch; off-centre chimney to S. Additions to rear and on N side. 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
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having one-bay two-storey addition to north end and recent two-bay flat-roofed porch to front. Thatched roof, hipped to south and pitched to north, with rendered chimneystack. Pitched slate roof to addition. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, replacement uPVC windows and painted render sills. Only one window to rear wall of thatched part of house. Single-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-east having pitched corrugated-iron roof, painted coursed rubble stone walls, camber-headed window with timber louvered and square-headed corrugated-iron door with roughly dressed voussoirs. Square-profile piers to road entrance with metal gate, set to painted rendered boundary walls.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Knockaskehane.
- 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 Knockaskehane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockaskehane · Cnoc an Sceacháin
- Area
- 906,744 m² (90.67 ha, 224.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leitrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Leitrim, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Leitrim electoral division: 381 people in 119 households; 98% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynalacken, Knockatrasnane, Kylebeg, Leitrim, Macroney Lower
- Placenames
- Knockaskehane 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.