Knockburden
Knockburden is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnaglory, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na mBurdúnach.
- Area
- 93.6 ha
- 231 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 3,758 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockburden, from 261 m² to 393,218 m² (39.32 ha, 97.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Knockburden 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 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission for Retention for the following: 1) Prefabricated building as constructed for use as an office/staff facilities ; 2) Regrading of agricultural lands to form a level hard standing area for the expansion of the gas bottling facility for the storage of gas bottle/tanks ; 3) Use of hard standing area as constructed for the parking of vehicles; 4) The construction of a fire retention pond; and 5) All associated site development works. The proposed development comprises the provision of an establishment to which the Major Accident Directive (SEVESO) applies.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/5256
9 Feb 2024Conditional
Permission for retention of shed for the storage of motor vehicles and all associated site development works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4212
13 Dec 2022Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house, garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6746
5 Apr 2022Refused
The construction of a dwelling house, garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4745
10 Mar 2022Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated with works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4534
24 Aug 2021Conditional
(A) Construction of a milking parlour, drafting and handling area, dairy and ancillary rooms (B) Erection of a meal bin and water storage tank (C) Construction of a silage slab (D) Construction of a cubicle shed with underground slatted slurry storage and soiled water tanks along with all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6327
26 Apr 2016Conditional
Permission to revise site boundaries previously permitted under Planning Reg. No. 14/6685
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4955
18 Sept 2015Conditional
Construction of a two-storey style dwelling and garage serviced by a septic tank, proprietary intermittent filter system and soil polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6094
23 Feb 2015Conditional
Retention of first floor extension, alteration to roofline, addition of roof lights and 2 dormer windows to an existing dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4336
15 Dec 2014Conditional
Construction of a two-storey dwelling house and detached garage including wastewater treatment system with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6685
20 Nov 2014Incompleted application
Construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse and detached garage including waste water treatment system, with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6487
22 Aug 2013Conditional
Construction of a dwelling and installation of a septic tank and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5635
7 Aug 2013Incompleted application
The construction of a dwelling and installation of a septic tank and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5550
27 May 2008Conditional
Construction of milking parlour and dairy and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6943
21 May 2008Conditional
Demolition of two storey dwelling and construction of one and half storey dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6839
30 Mar 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6640
30 Mar 2007Conditional
Erect a modular, circular steel, overground slurry store on a new concrete base, demolish existing shed and replace it with a new larger calf house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6733
7 Jun 2006Refused
Two storey dwellinghouse and conversion of existing dwelling to garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7845
25 Mar 2004Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1983
10 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/714
23 Dec 2003Withdrawn
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6859
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 Knockburden.
Recorded monuments
- CO085-017 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on W side of stream. Shown on 1940 OS 6-inch map as mound. No visible surface trace. 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
- CO085-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), with quarry outside N bank and possible outer bank as solid line S->NW on 1842 OS 6-inch map; N bank missing but second solid line S->W exists outside first on 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; band of dark green grass enclosing circular area (diam. 23.5m) clearly visible. Hartnett (1939, 260) recorded single rampart enclosing circular area (diam. 91ft), with second and third bank surviving in SW quadrant. 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
- CO085-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam c. 35m) on 1842, 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; differential grass colour defines circular area (diam. 31m). Hartnett (1939, 259) recorded rampart '7 feet in height', causewayed entrance to SW and two other 'gaps made to facilitate agricultural operations'. 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 Knockburden.
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 Knockburden, 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 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 Knockburden.
- 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 Knockburden with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockburden · Cnoc na mBurdúnach
- Area
- 936,299 m² (93.63 ha, 231.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnaglory, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Ballincollig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,428 people lived in 425 households in the Ballincollig electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinguilly, Grange, Killumney, Mylane, Windsor
- Placenames
- Knockburden 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.