Knockfeen
Knockfeen is a townland in the civil parish of Castleventry, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Fionn.
- Area
- 76.9 ha
- 190 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 59,799 m² (5.98 ha, 14.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockfeen, from 443 m² to 245,226 m² (24.52 ha, 60.6 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 Knockfeen 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
3 Dec 2021Conditional
Single storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, provision of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/844
29 Jun 2015Conditional
Permission for alterations to plan for which permission was granted under Planning Reg No 14/00567 including alterations to site boundary, relocation of proposed cattle house, increase in height of proposed cattle house, reduction in floor area of proposed cattle house, reduction in slurry storage capacity of proposed building and increase size of proposed concrete apron
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/365
2 Oct 2014Conditional
Permission to demolish existing two no. cubicle houses, permission to construct a cattle house with five no. slatted slurry tanks, concrete apron, installation of surface water collecting channels and drains in existing holding yard and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/567
8 Apr 2003Refused
Dwelling and domestic garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/1607
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 Knockfeen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockfeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockfeen.
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 Knockfeen, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 Knockfeen.
- 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 Knockfeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockfeen · Cnoc Fionn
- Area
- 769,074 m² (76.91 ha, 190.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleventry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Castleventry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 278 people lived in 94 households in the Castleventry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherbeg, Coolcraheen, Coolnagay, Killeigh, Tullyneasky West, Woodfield
- Placenames
- Knockfeen 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.