Knockataggart
Townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an tSagairt
- Area
- 54.2 ha
- 134 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 4,023 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockataggart, from 73 m² to 91,606 m² (9.16 ha, 22.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Sept 2008Conditional
Erection of domestic garage and of extension to side of dwellinghouse, conversion of attic to living accommodation incorporating 3no. dormer windows on front elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1678
17 Jul 2008Incompleted application
Erect domestic garage and extension to side of dwellinghouse, conversion of attic to living accommodation incorporating 3no. dormer windows on front elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1339
23 Jul 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5702
16 Jun 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4376
4 Mar 1998Conditional
Dwelling
Approval · Cork County Council, 98/779
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 Knockataggart.
Recorded monuments
- CO141-123 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a hillock in pasture. Sub-circular area (27m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m) forming townland boundaries W->SE; levelled bank (H 0.2m) SE->W. Shallow external fosse (D c. 0.35m) to W. 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
- CO150-011 Burial ground
Description
In pasture on N-facing slope. Marked 'Kiel' on OS 6-inch map (1842). Rectangular area (6.6m NE-SW; 3.1m SE-NW) cut into hillside on SE side; defined by scarp (H 0.75m) on NW side; other 2 sides defined by overgrowth. One burial marker noted. 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 Knockataggart.
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 Knockataggart.
- 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 Knockataggart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockataggart · Cnoc an tSagairt
- Area
- 541,536 m² (54.15 ha, 133.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Skibbereen Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Skibbereen Rural electoral division: 1,400 people in 484 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curravally, Gortshanecrone, Lahernathee, Licknavar, Munnig North
- Placenames
- Knockataggart 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.