Knockbrown

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbrown, from 80 m² to 797,421 m² (79.74 ha, 197.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Knockbrown 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.

• 18 May 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct an agricultural shed for the purpose of hay/straw and fodder storage and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1313

• 13 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention of 1) dwelling house as constructed, 2) garage with overhead balcony on top, 3) garden shed & block house, 4) storage shed incorporating home office for use ancillary to dwelling house & all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0344

• 21 Mar 2025Conditional

  Permission for retention of altered boundaries and relocated septic tank from those granted in planning ref. 05/3076.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4500

• 17 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, and wastewater treatment system, along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6291

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission for the construction of 2 no. livestock underpasses, 2 no. effluent holding tanks, and all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6095

• 2 Oct 2019Unconditional

  Agricultural development consisting of 4 no. broiler houses to house 50,000 broilers per house, waste storage shed incorporating biomass burner, office and changing facilities, service yard and storage shed, staff accommodation with waste water treatment system and all associated site works. An Environmental Impact Statement accompanies this application. This application relates to development which comprises or is for the purposed of an activity requiring an Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Licence. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Ref: 14/4342 and An Bord Pleanála Appeal Ref: 04.244440.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/6379

• 23 Dec 2015Withdrawn

  The construction of two-storey dwellinghouse, domestic waste treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6996

• 14 Nov 2014Unconditional

  Dwelling and associated landscaping and drainage including wastewater treatment system, Extension of Duration to permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 09/7161

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/6433

• 21 Feb 2014Conditional

  Agricultural development consisting of 4 no. broiler houses to house 50,000 broilers per house, waste storage shed incorporating biomass burner, office and changing facilities, service yard and storage shed, staff accommodation with waste water treatment system and all associated site works. An Environmental Impact Statement accompanies this application. This application relates to development which comprises or is for the purposed of an activity requiring an Integrayed Pollution Prevention and Control Licence.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4342

• 24 Jan 2014Incompleted application

  Agricultural development consisting of 4 no. broiler houses to house 50,000 broilers per house, waste storage shed incorporating biomass burner, office & changing facilities, service yard & storage shed, staff accommodation with waste water treatment system & all associated site works. An Environmental Impact Statement accompanies this application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4127

• 19 Apr 2013Conditional

  Alterations to house and domestic garage previously granted permission under Planning Ref. No. 99/2690. Alterations include addition of 1no. dormer window to dwelling house, increase in height of domestic garage and additional windows to domestic garage

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4712

• 3 Apr 2013Incompleted application

  Alterations to house and domestic garage previously granted permission under Planning Reg. No. 99/2690. Alterations include addition of 1 dormer window to dwellinghouse, increase in height of domestic garage and additional windows to domestic garage

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4570

• 22 Nov 2010Unconditional

  Completion of dwelling permitted under planning reg. no. 05/6521

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/8541

• 25 Sept 2009Conditional

  Dwelling with associated landscaping & drainage including wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7161

• 14 Sept 2009Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7112

• 7 Jul 2009Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse and garage (change of layout and alterations to elevations), relocation of septic tank, alterations to site boundaries from that permitted under planning Reg. No. 01/2491 and permission for demolition of conservatory and construction of two storey extension to south eastern side of dwelling, installation of patio door to north western side of dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6260

• 15 Jun 2009Incompleted application

  Demolition of conservatory and construction of two storey extension to south eastern side of dwelling, installation of patio door to north western side of dwelling and associated site works and retention of alterations to site boundaries, minor alterations to location of dwellinghouse and garage permitted under planning register no. 01/2491 and retention of alterations to front and south eastern side elevations of same dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5954

• 25 Mar 2008Conditional

  Construction of domestic garage with double roller doors

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5616

• 29 Jun 2007Conditional

  Demolition of existing shed, construction of shed over existing slurry tank, calf/calving shed and dairy washings tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9192

• 19 Dec 2006Conditional

  Construction of shed to include cubicle and straw bedded livestock housing, easy feed passage and slatted slurry tank, milking parlour with waiting yard and associated drafting facilities and slurry flow channel, overground slurry tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13503

• 21 Nov 2005Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8536

• 9 Sept 2005Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6521

• 6 May 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3076

• 27 May 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3725

• 18 Aug 2003Conditional

  Granny flat extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4152

The 25 most recent of 27 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 Knockbrown.

Recorded monuments

• CO123-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope; extensive view to S. Marked as circular enclosure on OS 6-inch map (1842). Levelled during field fence removal; no visible surface trace. 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 Knockbrown.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Knockbrown.

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.

• Knockbrown, Bandon5 sales

Name

Knockbrown · Cnoc an Bhrúnaigh

Area

3,335,508 m² (333.55 ha, 824.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmaloda, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Baurleigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Baurleigh electoral division: 401 people in 125 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baurleigh, Dangan More, Garryndruig, Kilshinahan, Knocknagallagh, Skeaf, Skeaf East

Placenames

Knockbrown 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.