Knockeenbwee Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Dromdaleague, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Cnoicín Buí Íochtarach
- Area
- 85.4 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 5,745 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockeenbwee Lower, from 43 m² to 385,945 m² (38.59 ha, 95.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockeenbwee Lower 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
17 May 2010Conditional
Construct extension to dwelling and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/341
26 Oct 2007Conditional
Change location of proposed new easy feed cattle house complete with associated slatted tanks and construction of new concrete walled silage pit with effluent discharge as granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/1719
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2758
29 Jun 2007Conditional
(a) Demolition of complete existing farmyard layout, (b) construction of new easy feed cattle house complete with associated slatted slurry tanks, (c) Construction of new concrete walled silage pit with effluent discharge to slatted tank (d) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1719
1 May 2007Incompleted application
(a) Demolition of complete existing farmyard layout, (b) Construction of new easy feed cattle house complete with associated slatted slurry tank, (c) Construction of new concrete walled silage pit with effluent discharge to slatted tank and (d) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1148
20 Jul 2006Conditional
Detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1401
24 Apr 2006Conditional
Alterations and additions to previously granted file 05/8414 for: (1) Works to railway cottage:- Change of west facing front porch to sunroom/entrance lobby; Change of double doors on south elevation to window (2) Refurbishment of existing ticket office and change of use to ancillary dwelling/granny flat to railway cottage (3) Detached domestic garage/boat house
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/716
16 Nov 2005Conditional
Demolition of lean-to and porch, alterations and construction of porch, balcony and one and half storey extension to existing dwelling (Railway Cottage) and demolition of Ticket Office and construction of dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit to serve both dwellings
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8414
26 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3637
30 Mar 1999Conditional
Erection of an overhead 110kV transmission line
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1596
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 Knockeenbwee Lower.
Recorded monuments
- CO120-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
Circular area (21m E-W; 19m N-S) enclosed by overgrown bank (int. H to E 1m). Interior heavily overgrown; inaccessible. 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
- CO120-023 Structure
Description
In bog on N shore of Garranes Lake. Two parallel lines of upright oaken planks set less than 1m apart and extending N->S (UCC). Inaccessible. 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
- CO120-071 Souterrain
Description
Near the S edge of a ridge, overlooking Garranes Lake a short distance to the S. According to local information, there is an entrance to an underground passage, which extends to the N, at this location. It is currently inaccessible due to a dense cover of briars, ferns and bushes. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockeenbwee Lower.
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
- 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockeenbwee Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockeenbwee Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockeenbwee Lower · An Cnoicín Buí Íochtarach
- Area
- 853,883 m² (85.39 ha, 211 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromdaleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Garranes, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Garranes electoral division: 409 people in 141 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Acres, Clashnacrona West, Derreenaspeeg, Garranes, Kilnahera East, Knockeenbwee Upper, Loughcrot
- Placenames
- Knockeenbwee Lower 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.