Knockbrack

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrack, from 9 m² to 334,523 m² (33.45 ha, 82.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knockbrack 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.

• 12 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission to (a) Construct a new dwelling house, carport and domestic garage (b) Construct a new vehicular entrance, (c) Install a new bored well and (d) Install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4216

• 13 Mar 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, garage, on-site waste water treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4446

• 26 Sept 2022Conditional permission

  Retention of dwelling as constructed (change of plan and location from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. N/1627/87), attached domestic garage, basement conversion for storage, attic conversion for storage, gable windows, 3 no. out buildings for storage and entrance.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 22/6142

• 9 Aug 2022Incompleted application

  Retention of basement conversion for storage, attic conversion for storage, 2 no. windows on the gables of the dwelling (one on each gable), repositioning of dwelling on site from that granted under previous planning reference N/1627/87, attached domestic garage, 3 no. out buildings for storage and as constructed entrance. All the above works have been carried out to existing dwelling.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/5856

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  Demolition of existing side annex to dwelling, for alterations to elevations of dwelling, for construction of a single and 2-storey extensions to both sides of dwelling and for permission for retention for extension to rear as constructed (change of plan from that permitted under planning reference no. 14/4871) and for permission for retention of extensions to front and side of dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4654

• 18 Aug 2020Conditional

  Construction of a new single-storey extension to front of existing one and a half storey dwelling, alterations to elevations and associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5769

• 16 Jul 2020Incompleted application

  Construction of a new single-storey extension to front of existing one and a half storey dwelling, alterations to elevations and associated site boundary and site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5503

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  (A) Retention of an agricultural building to include milking facilities and an underground slatted tank. (B) Retention of an external livestock feeding area. (C) Construction of a roof over the external livestock feeding area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7031

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, garage, on-site waste water treatment unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5667

• 26 Mar 2019Withdrawn

  Construct a single storey dwelling with a site specific treatment unit and percolation area with associated site works and a new site entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4722

• 21 Feb 2019Incompleted application

  Construct a single storey dwelling with a site specific treatment unit and percolation area with associated site works and a new site entrance.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4407

• 4 Jul 2018Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, entrance, driveway, well, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5748

• 29 Jun 2018Conditional

  Extension and renovation of an existing derelict cottage/dwelling house, alterations to elevations and construction of a porch along with the provision of a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5689

• 6 Jun 2018Incompleted application

  The extension and renovation of an existing derelict cottage/dwellinghouse, along with the provision of a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5467

• 29 May 2018Refused

  Construct a single storey dwelling with garage, treatment unit and percolation area with associated site works and new site entrance.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5394

• 23 Apr 2018Incompleted application

  Construct a single storey dwelling with a garage, a treatment unit and percolation area with associated site works and a new site entrance.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5006

• 22 Feb 2017Conditional

  Retention of detached domestic garage as constructed and all associated site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/4406

• 29 Apr 2014Conditional

  Permission for retention of dwelling house, as built, garage and entrance permitted under Planning Ref. No. 03/404 and Permission for a new two-storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4871

• 15 Feb 2011Unconditional

  Completion of one and a half storey dwellinghouse and garage with games room over granted under reg. no. 06/9893

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/4283

• 23 Sept 2009Conditional

  Dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, entrance and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7132

• 11 May 2009Incompleted application

  Single storey dwelling house with septic tank & percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5507

• 20 Mar 2009Incompleted application

  Single-storey dwelling, septic tank and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4859

• 11 Feb 2009Refused

  Dwelling and wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4405

• 16 May 2008Conditional

  Bungalow and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6764

• 9 May 2008Conditional

  Dwelling, garage & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6629

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.

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

• CO042-061001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (31m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 2m) SE->SW with external fosse (D 1m); low rise elsewhere with slight external depression. Surviving bank SE->SW incorporated into field fence system; height of bank varies and may have had material dumped on its surface; fosse heavily overgrown. Interior slopes down to S; souterrain (CO042-06102-) in SE quadrant. 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

• CO042-061002 Souterrain
  Description

  In S half of ringfort (CO042-06101-). Recorded by Coleman (1947, 72), under Knuttery townland, as an 'irregular hollow' in S half of interior of ringfort. No visible surface trace. 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 Knockbrack.

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 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 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

5,214,308 m² (521.43 ha, 1,288.48 acres)

Civil parish

Rahan, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Rahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahan electoral division: 926 people in 320 households; 95% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortaneelig, Island, Knockacullata, Knockanannig, Knuttery, Monee East, Monee West, Toormore

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.