Knockatreenane
Townland in the civil parish of Desertmore, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc an Traonáin
- Area
- 96.1 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 2,587 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 54
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockatreenane, from 72 m² to 373,255 m² (37.33 ha, 92.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Knockatreenane 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
18 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for Retention of single storey stable building for recreational use, site entrance and access laneway and Permission for stable manure enclosure with soiled water tank and all associated works
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1619
24 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
1) The Retention of the office building (building 3), service building (building 4), the connection link between office and services buildings, the storage container (building 5), the pump house (building 6) and the machinery shed (building 7), all for uses ancillary to the horticultural nursery and; 2) Retention of the change of use of the existing agricultural shed to principally include light horticultural activities, storage with ancillary staff welfare facilities (building 1). 3) Permission is sought for the installation of a wastewater treatment system and pump, upgrades to the existing yard including staff car parking and loading bay, the erection of new gates at the site entrance, decorative walls, extensions of the existing internal access track, site landscaping and all other ancillary site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6284
3 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for the construction of a detached garage for use in connection with the existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4582
29 Jan 2025Incompleted application
Permission for: 1) the retention of the office building (building 3), services building (building 4), the connection link between office and services buildings, the pump house (building 6), the storage container (building 5), the machinery shed (building 7), all for uses ancillary to the horticultural nursery and 2) retention of change of use of the existing agricultural shed to principally include light horticultural activities, storage with ancillary staff welfare facilities (building 1). 3) Permission is sought for the installation of a wastewater treatment system and pump, upgrades to the existing yard including staff car parking and loading bay, the erection of new gates at the site entrance, decorative walls, extension of the existing internal access track, site landscaping and all other associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4098
28 Jan 2025Application invalid
Permission for the construction of a detached garage for use in connection with existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4089
27 Mar 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the retention of 1) The existing office building, services building, connection link, pump house and storage container, and 2) Installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, and permission 1) The construction of a lean-to shed 2) Upgrades to the existing yard, 3) Staff car parking and loading bay, 4) Erection of new gates at the site entrance, 5) Extension of the existing internal access track to the east of the site, 6) Site landscaping and levelling works, and 7) All other associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4529
24 Jul 2023Conditional
Permission for the proposed construction of a new detached dwelling house and garage (for the change of detached dwelling house plans and garage design from that permitted under planning reg no. 21/7389) and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5502
29 Aug 2022Conditional
Construction of a domestic garage at south eastern side of dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5960
22 Jul 2022Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a domestic garage at south eastern side of dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5733
17 Dec 2021Conditional
Construction of two-storey style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7389
26 Nov 2021Incompleted application
Construction of two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7195
4 Nov 2020Refused
The construction of a two storey dwelling, waste water treatment unit and percolation area, upgrade works to existing entrance gates, associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6426
11 Sept 2020Incompleted application
The construction of two storey dwelling, waste water treatment unit and percolation area, upgrade works to existing entrance gates, associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5975
31 Jul 2020Incompleted application
The construction of two storey dwelling, waste water treatment unit and percolation area, upgrade works to existing entrance gates, associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5644
9 Jul 2020Incompleted application
Two deatched two-storeyed dwellinghouses, along with ancillary residential facilities.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5435
26 Jul 2019Conditional
To construct a dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5888
25 Jun 2018Conditional
Construction of a detached two storey dwelling with detached garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5629
26 Sept 2017Conditional
Permission to erect agricultural shed for the storage of vegetables and farm machinery.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6484
16 Jan 2017Conditional
Construct a new farm entrance gate and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4051
19 Jan 2016Conditional
Construction of a 2-storey dwelling, detached garage, associated waste water treatment system and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4060
5 Nov 2015Conditional
Construction of dormer style dwelling house, waste water treatment unit/percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6477
12 Oct 2015Conditional
Retention of 4 no rooflights and stone work to south east elevation of existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6272
10 Jul 2015Conditional
Construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5514
3 Nov 2014Conditional
Construction of two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, detached games room and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6340
22 Feb 2013Unconditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse with granny flat, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 08/4232
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4292
The 25 most recent of 54 applications.
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 Knockatreenane.
Recorded monuments
- CO084-062 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In pasture. Arc (diam. 8.5m) S->N, formed by earthen bank (max. H 2m) with depression on inside; no visible surface trace of E half. Locally known as 'lios' (Hartnett 1939, 168). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Knockatreenane.
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 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 Knockatreenane.
- 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 Knockatreenane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockatreenane · Cnoc an Traonáin
- Area
- 960,908 m² (96.09 ha, 237.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Ballygroman, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballygroman electoral division: 1,789 people in 594 households; 86% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincourneenig, Ballygroman Upper, Ballymountain, Clashanaffrin, Kilbane
- Placenames
- Knockatreenane 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.