Knockavaddra
Knockavaddra is a townland in the civil parish of Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Mhadra.
- Area
- 404.8 ha
- 1,000 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 27,333 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockavaddra, from 343 m² to 349,596 m² (34.96 ha, 86.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockavaddra 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
4 Feb 2025Conditional permission
Permission for retention for the existing agricultural entrance and for permission for a new entrance to serve the existing dwelling house at the location of the existing agricultural entrance.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4126
13 Nov 2020Refused
The construction of a first floor extension onto existing single storey dwelling house, the alterations to elevations, the construction of a sun room onto the side of dwelling house and the alterations of site boundaries.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6516
31 May 2017Conditional
Construction of a single storey control house consisting of two rooms to house plant equipment, relocation of site entrance and all associated ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5350
10 May 2017Incompleted application
Construction of a single storey control house consisting of two rooms to house plant equipment and all associated ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5131
7 May 2015Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4953
23 Jul 2014Conditional
Permission for wind farm comprising the provision of a total of 14no. Wind turbines with a maximum overall blade tip height pf up to 136.5m, upgrading of existing and provision of new internal access roads, provision of a wind anemometry mast (height up to 90m), 4no. borrow pits, an electricity substation with control room and associated equipment, underground electricity connection cabling, 3no. temporary construction compounds, and all ancillary site works including the upgrading of site access junctions.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5602
11 Mar 2014Conditional
Construction of single storey wheelchair accessible bathroom extension to the northern side of existing dwelling house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4504
29 Oct 2013Conditional
Alterations and extension to existing dwelling for use as a separate dwelling unit and installation of a new sewerage treatment system and all associated services
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6053
21 Dec 2012Conditional
A single electricity generating wind turbine of hub height up to 60m and rotor diameter up to 48m, a hardstanding, control building, associated site roads, drainage & site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6636
22 Nov 2012Incompleted application
Erection of a single electricity generating wind turbine of hub height up to 60m and rotor diameter up to 48m, a hardstanding, control building, associated site roads, drainage and site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6396
5 Jun 2012Conditional
Two storey detached dwelling and a separate detached garage with a store area, a new site entrance, a new potable well, waste water treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5226
13 Jul 2010Conditional
Construction of a single storey extension & alterations to side of existing dwelling house & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5754
27 Feb 2009Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/4593
21 Dec 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/13422
21 Dec 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage & associated site works including new septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/13399
13 Jun 2007Withdrawn
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8631
26 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7295
12 Dec 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13229
23 Oct 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11654
22 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, installation of treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10830
5 Sept 2006Incompleted application
One and half storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10323
6 Jul 2006Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8677
22 Jun 2006Withdrawn
One and half storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8308
18 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6431
3 Apr 2006Refused
One and half storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6064
The 25 most recent of 33 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 Knockavaddra.
Recorded monuments
- CO041-114 Stone row
Description
On summit of S spur of Bweengduff mountain; standing stone pair (9848) c. 950m to SSW. Site is now under forest. Bowman (1934, 552) records 'stone alignment', aligned E-W, comprising seven stones. Five stones were then prostrate and remainder inclining. Landowner informed him that they had been broken. A group of large slabs now lie on site forming no apparent arrangement. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockavaddra.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Knockavaddra, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockavaddra.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockavaddra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockavaddra · Cnoc an Mhadra
- Area
- 4,048,242 m² (404.82 ha, 1,000.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilshannig, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Dromore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,061 people lived in 953 households in the Dromore electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboght, Beenalaght, Garrane, Glandine, Glannaharee East, Lackendarragh
- Placenames
- Knockavaddra 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.