Knockbrack

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 301 m² to 86,891 m² (8.69 ha, 21.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Apr 2023Conditional

  (1) To demolish existing extensions to the front, sides and rear of existing dwelling and to construct a single storey extension to the southern side and rear of existing dwelling and to construct a 2-storey extension to the northern side of same dwelling and all associated site works and services. (2) Retention of alterations made to the existing domestic garage previously granted under Pl.Reg.No. 05/3005 consisting of relocated doors and windows, a mezzanine floor with first floor window and minor increase in ridge height and floor area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4688

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  To construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5413

• 20 Nov 2020Withdrawn

  To construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6585

• 2 Aug 2019Conditional

  (1) Permission to construct a new single storey side extension to existing dwellinghouse (2) Retention of revised site boundaries (3) Retention of porch as constructed on front elevation of dwellinghouse (4) Retention of minor alterations to elevations of dwellinghouse and (5) Retention of front boundary wall

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5953

• 26 Jun 2019Incompleted application

  (1.) Permission to construct a new single storey side extension (2.) Retention of revised site boundaries (3.) Retention of porch as constructed on front elevation (4.) Retention of minor alterations to elevations and (5.) Retention of front boundary wall.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5649

• 12 Jun 2017Refused

  Construct a single storey dwelling, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works at Knockbrack, Doneraile, Mallow, Co.Cork. The proposed site is within the vicinity of a thatched cottage which is a protected structure within the overall landholdings

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 17/5473

• 22 Sept 2006Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, site entrance and installation of bio-cycle treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10834

• 5 May 2005Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse and construction of domestic garage/store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3005

• 8 Apr 2005Refused

  Bungalow

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/2216

• 23 Mar 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1756

• 30 Jul 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/5906

• 4 Jun 2003Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2710

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 Knockbrack.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockbrack.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular house with attic, built c. 1800, having lean-to addition to south gable and recent glazed addition to rear. Hipped reed thatched roof with low brick chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows and replacement timber door. Interior retains traditional features and layout. Single-storey outbuildings in yard to rear, having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs and stone walls, one building being open-sided, having stone piers. Rendered boundary wall to garden at front of house, with pedestrian gate having rendered piers and wrought-iron gate.

• Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c. 1880, sited on grassy road verge, set on elevated semi-circular rubble limestone platform with limestone steps to south side. Pump having banded cylindrical shaft, curved cow's tail handle, fluted neck and cap and foliate decoration to base of spout. Set against rubble limestone wall with round coping stones.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Knockbrack · An Cnoc Breac

Area

420,732 m² (42.07 ha, 103.97 acres)

Civil parish

Doneraile, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Doneraile, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doneraile electoral division: 1,555 people in 599 households; 67% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardadam, Brough, Carkerbeg, Cloonbane, Kilvickanease, Newtown, Sycamore

Placenames

Knockbrack 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.