Knockea
Knockea is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmeen (Clonakilty Ra), barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Aodha.
- Area
- 221.1 ha
- 546 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 3,817 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 30
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockea, from 54 m² to 428,540 m² (42.85 ha, 105.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Knockea 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
1 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
Construct a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, roofed cattle holding yard with slatted soiled water tank, roofed cattle handling yard with slatted slurry tank, feed storage bin, rainwater harvesting tank, concrete apron, earth walled bund to existing overground slurry storage tank and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1455
21 Jan 2026Grant with conditions
Construct a one room extension to the side of the existing dwelling house and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0093
21 Nov 2025Grant permission
Construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 25/6536
18 Jan 2023Conditional
Permission is sought for A) Construction of a 800m sand harness training track with retained embankment on Northern end and associated parking B) Construction of a stable and storage building with associated parking area C) Construction of external manure storage area and soiled water storage D) Install a septic tank and percolation area E) Construct a new vehicular entrance to replace existing entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/13
29 Nov 2022Incompleted application
Permission is sought for A) Construction of a 800m sand harness training track with retained embankment on Northern end and associated parking B) Construction of a stable and storage building with associated parking area C) Construction of external manure storage area and soiled water storage D) Install a septic tank and percolation area E) Construct a new vehicular entrance to replace existing entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/733
10 Oct 2022Conditional
Permission to (a) renovate and extend existing dwelling house including the construction of a two storey extension to the south side of said dwelling house, (b) construct a domestic garage, (c) construct a new site entrance, (d) installation of septic tank and percolation area, (e) permission to demolish entrance porch of existing dwelling house and two no. out house stores, and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/632
10 Feb 2021Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/97
21 Dec 2020Conditional
Construct a single storey extension to the side of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/767
5 Aug 2020Conditional
Permission to (a) demolish rear section of existing dwelling house and store, (b) renovate and extend existing dwelling house, (c) installation of septic tank and percolation area, (d) construct a new bore hole water supply well, (e) alterations to existing site entrance, and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/425
21 Jul 2020Incompleted application
Permission to (a) renovate and extend existing dwelling house, (b) installation of septic tank and percolation area, (c) construct a neew bore hole water supply well, (d) alterations to existing site entrance, and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/397
16 Oct 2019Conditional
Permission to erect a 2 storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system, bored well, entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/666
25 Jun 2018Conditional
To construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, a roofed feeding passage and a concrete cow path. To construct an extension with slatted slurry tank to existing cattle house and to extend existing machinery shed and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/373
2 Dec 2011Conditional
construct a milking parlour with slatted tank and dairy washing tank, cattle holding yard, calf house and slatted cattle shed with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/734
30 Mar 2010Conditional
Construct dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/223
28 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of a new farm building complex to include milking parlour,dairy store house, holding area, drafting area, cubicle house, slatted reception tank, circular slurry storage tank and all associated concrete aprons, roadways and site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1704
23 Apr 2007Conditional
Construction of new slatted house, calf house, cow house, open manure pit, concrete apron and associated site works; re-roof existing slatted house; retention of effluent storage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1074
23 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Construction of new slatted house, calf house, cow house, open manure pit, concrete apron and associated site works; retention of effluent storage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/825
13 Oct 2006Conditional
Dwelling and domestic garage
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/2119
7 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted unit extension to existing agricultural shed and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1798
10 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwelling and domestic garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/624
28 Sept 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7058
9 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6854
26 Apr 2004Conditional
Demlition of former dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2763
22 Dec 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6704
1 Sept 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4363
The 25 most recent of 30 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 Knockea.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockea.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockea.
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 Knockea, 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 Knockea.
- 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 Knockea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockea · Cnoc Aodha
- Area
- 2,211,417 m² (221.14 ha, 546.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeen (Clonakilty Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Rossmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 370 people lived in 131 households in the Rossmore electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caher, Carhoovauler, Derryvreen, Knocks, Knockskagh, Letter, Liscubba, Lisroe
- Placenames
- Knockea 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.