Knockasturkeen
Townland in the civil parish of Cloyne, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an Storraicín
- Area
- 85.6 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,495 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockasturkeen, from 1,163 m² to 463,129 m² (46.31 ha, 114.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Knockasturkeen 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
8 Dec 2016Conditional
To construct new cheese production facility and a significant upgrade of the existing Dairygold Food Ingredients (DFI) facility. The proposed development consists of: 1. Construction of the following Buildings or structures and associated services and site works:- • Cheese Production Building – predominantly single-storey with 3-storey middle section and 2-storey administration block • Single storey part Open sided, roofed, Milk Intake Unit and piperack structure • Single storey Workshop • Single storey Box Store • 2-storey Reception and Staff Facilities Building • Single storey Boiler House • Single storey RO and Pasteurisation Building • Single storey Weighbridge Security Building • Single storey Water Treatment and Fire Pumphouse Building • Electrical Sub-station and Switchroom • 2-bay Loading Bay structure attached to the northern end of the existing cheese factory • 2 No. water storage tanks (12.6m and 9.6m high); 1 No. Salt Saturation Storage Tank (5.1m high) 2. Closure of 3 entrances and the construction of new entrance for HGV traffic off the L3627 on the northern site boundary. Closure of the existing HGV entrance and construction of new entrance for staff and visitor car traffic only off the L3805 Mogeely-Castlemartyr Road on the eastern site boundary 3. Demolition of the following Buildings or Structures and associated services: a) Dairy and Maintenance Workshop Building; b) Packaging Store; c) Boiler House and 3 No. stacks (33.9m high); d) Canteen; e) Reception and Office Building; f) Generator Building and removal of all associated Redundant Tankage. 4. Upgrade of an existing bund and construction of new adjoining bund to accommodate existing tanks and the following new tankage, (height listed in brackets) and all services associated with the tankage: 6 No. Milk Silos(14.0m), 2 No. Milk Silos(18.5m), 3 No. Cream Storage Tanks(5.8m), 5 No. Cleaning Tanks(8.0m),4 No. Cleaning Tanks(5.0m), 2 No. Whey Silos(12.7m), 2 No. Whey Silos(13.2m), 2 No. Bulk Chemical Tanks(5.45m) 5. Construction of a 124 space Car Park, Internal Roads accessing the site from the new Entrances / Exits, Covered Pedestrian Walkway and mounded Berms, Boundary Walls, Fencing and all Associated Landscaping Works. 6. Upgrade and expansion of the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant including new Balance Tank, Anaerobic and Aerobic Tanks, Clarifier, Picket Fence Thickener, Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Plant, Pumping Station, Control Room, Filters and Concrete Plinths. The propo
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7031
30 Nov 2016Incompleted application
1. Construction of the following Buildings or structures and associated services and site works:- • Cheese Production Building – predominantly single-storey with 3-storey middle section and 2-storey administration block • Single storey part Open sided, roofed, Milk Intake Unit and piperack structure • Single storey Workshop • Single storey Box Store • 2-storey Reception and Staff Facilities Building • Single storey Boiler House • Single storey RO and Pasteurisation Building • Single storey Weighbridge Security Building • Single storey Water Treatment and Fire Pumphouse Building • Electrical Sub-station and Switchroom • 2-bay Loading Bay structure attached to the northern end of the existing cheese factory • 2 No. water storage tanks (12.6m and 9.6m high); 1 No. Salt Saturation Storage Tank (5.1m high) 2. Closure of 3 entrances and the construction of new entrance for HGV traffic off the L3627 on the northern site boundary. Closure of the existing HGV entrance and construction of new entrance for staff and visitor car traffic only off the L3805 Mogeely-Castlemartyr Road on the eastern site boundary 3. Demolition of the following Buildings or Structures and associated services: a) Dairy and Maintenance Workshop Building; b) Packaging Store; c) Boiler House and 3 No. stacks (33.9m high); d) Canteen; e) Reception and Office Building; f) Generator Building and removal of all associated Redundant Tankage. 4. Upgrade of an existing bund and construction of new adjoining bund to accommodate existing tanks and the following new tankage, (height listed in brackets) and all services associated with the tankage: 6 No. Milk Silos(14.0m), 2 No. Milk Silos(18.5m), 3 No. Cream Storage Tanks(5.8m), 5 No. Cleaning Tanks(8.0m),4 No. Cleaning Tanks(5.0m), 2 No. Whey Silos(12.7m), 2 No. Whey Silos(13.2m), 2 No. Bulk Chemical Tanks(5.45m) 5. Construction of a 124 space Car Park, Internal Roads accessing the site from the new Entrances / Exits, Covered Pedestrian Walkway and mounded Berms, Boundary Walls, Fencing and all Associated Landscaping Works. 6. Upgrade and expansion of the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant including new Balance Tank, Anaerobic and Aerobic Tanks, Clarifier, Picket Fence Thickener, Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Plant, Pumping Station, Control Room, Filters and Concrete Plinths. The proposed upgrade will include the demolition of the existing works including the existing 9.5m high Biotower. 7. Installation of an underground Pipeline
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6979
19 Mar 2008Incompleted application
Retention of alteration to elevations of domestic garage, concrete surface and site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5523
19 Dec 2007Refused
Construction of entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13201
13 Mar 2007Withdrawn
Retention of alterations to elevations of domestic garage, concrete surfacing and site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5969
7 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Retention of elevational alterations to domestic garage, concrete surface and site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4824
13 Dec 2006Incompleted application
Retention of alterations to elevations to domestic garage, concrete surface and site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13233
3 Oct 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11143
5 Jul 2006Refused
Change of use of domestic garage to industrial unit and retention of elevation changes
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8631
11 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1481
15 Feb 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/813
5 Nov 2004Refused
Dwelling, domestic garage and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8217
18 Aug 2004Withdrawn
Dwelling, garage and wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6325
28 Jun 2004Conditional
Domestic garage (including 2 no. stables) and new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4747
13 Apr 2004Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2434
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 Knockasturkeen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockasturkeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockasturkeen.
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 high, 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 Knockasturkeen.
- 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 Knockasturkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockasturkeen · Cnoc an Storraicín
- Area
- 856,288 m² (85.63 ha, 211.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Cloyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloyne electoral division: 4,730 people in 1,639 households; 72% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigagour, Carrigatogher, Innygraga, Kilballycurrane, Kilbree, Knockgorm, Sculleen, Sheanliss, Tead More
- Placenames
- Knockasturkeen 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.