Knockatlowig

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatlowig, from 1,949 m² to 250,818 m² (25.08 ha, 61.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockatlowig 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.

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional permission

  Construction of extensions and alterations to existing dwelling and permission to upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/310

• 24 Aug 2007Conditional

  Construct cattle house with slatted tank, milking parlour and dairy, effluent tank and make alterations to existing dairy/stall

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2261

• 11 Jun 2007Incompleted application

  Construct (1) cattle house with slatted tank, (2) milking parlour and dairy, (3) effluent tank and (4) make alterations to existing dairy/stall

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1521

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockatlowig.

Recorded monuments

• CO121-075 Stone row
  Description

  On N-facing slope overlooking Argideen and Ihernagh rivers. Two upright stones, aligned NE-SW, and one prostrate slab. NE stone is 0.7m L, 0.5m T and 0.9m H. Next stone, 1.1m to SW, is 1m L, 0.7m T and 1.2m H. Prostrate slab lies 3.6m to W; it measures 3.55m x 1.2m and is 0.7m T. Beside this at E is stone leaning markedly to S. It is 0.7m L, 0.4m T and, if erect, would have stood 0.8m H; its function is unclear. (O Nualláin 1988, 237, no. 51) 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

• CO121-076 Mass-rock
  Description

  In level pasture. Field named 'Parknakilla' on both editions of OS 6-inch maps; field fences now removed. According to local tradition mass rock once stood here. 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 Knockatlowig.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Knockatlowig, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockatlowig.

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.

No address of the register names Knockatlowig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Knockatlowig · Cnoc an tSluaigh

Area

1,260,163 m² (126.02 ha, 311.39 acres)

Civil parish

Castleventry, and its townlands

Barony

Ibane and Barryroe

Electoral division

Argideen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

382 people lived in 139 households in the Argideen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bealad West, Bohona, Clasharusheen, Derryvreen, Gearagh, Knocks

Placenames

Knockatlowig 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.