Knocknacurra

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknacurra, from 1,950 m² to 2,102 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Sept 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct; 1) 2 no. new dwelling houses, 2) new site entrances, 3) new below and above ground services, 4) new rainwater soak pits, 5) ancillary works and associated site works to include new water and foul sewer connections to public mains.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5979

• 13 Mar 2023Conditional

  To demolish existing dwelling house and to construct a two-storey dwelling house over proposed basement with attic accommodation to first floor including the installation of renewable energy measures, a single storey flat roofed garage to rear, extending existing driveway to rear, parking at rear including new main entrance to dwelling at rear, retaining walls and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4447

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  Construction of an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling incorporating part raising of the ridgeline to incorporate development in the existing attic for use as habitable space and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5700

• 15 May 2019Incompleted application

  Construction of an extension to the side and rear, incorporating part raising of the ridge line to incorporate development in the existing attic and all ancillary site works at dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5230

• 7 Feb 2019Incompleted application

  Extension to the side and rear, incorporating part raising of the ridge line to incorporate development in the existing attic and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4266

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  Construction of a dwellinghouse incorporating a domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6317

• 11 Nov 2011Conditional

  Construction of a two storey extension and alterations, demolition of existing garage and retention of a single storey extension to existing single storey dwelling house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6390

• 13 Nov 2009Conditional

  Demolition of existing dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works including installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and sand polishing filter

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7639

• 13 Mar 2008Withdrawn

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/5411

• 22 Dec 2005Withdrawn

  Demolition of dwellinghouse and outhouse and construction of dwellinghouse and carport

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9672

• 16 Nov 2005Conditional

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/8425

• 7 Oct 2005Incompleted application

  2 no. dwellings

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/7328

• 25 Aug 2005Conditional

  Alterations to dwelling to include conversion of garage/carport to habitable use and construction of detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6144

• 4 Mar 2005Conditional

  2 no. dwelinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1291

• 10 Jul 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3429

• 1 Apr 2003Refused

  Construction of ground and first floor extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1481

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 Knocknacurra.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknacurra.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c.1920. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills to front (north-west) elevation, having rendered lintels and painted block-and-start brick surrounds. Two-over-two and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings with render sills to side (south-west, north-east) elevations having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash window (north-east) and timber casement window (south-west). Square-headed door opening to front elevation with raised render surround, having timber battened door and rendered stepped approach with wall. Dry stone boundary wall surmounted by hedge enclosing garden to front.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknacurra.

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.

No address of the register names Knocknacurra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Knocknacurra · Cnoc na Cora

Area

48,077 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kinsale, and its townlands

Barony

Kinsale

Electoral division

Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinsale Rural electoral division: 5,605 people in 1,855 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Commoge, Dromderrig

Placenames

Knocknacurra 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.