Knocknagapple

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagapple, from 16 m² to 204,004 m² (20.4 ha, 50.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knocknagapple 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.

• 3 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a new 151m2 two storey extension to the western elevation of the existing single storey dwelling house with minor alterations to the existing dwelling required to facilitate the proposed extension. Permission is also sought for a new vehicular entrance at the north west corner of the site including new entrance piers and gates, with a new driveway to be formed to connect to the existing dwelling house including landscaping and all site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4006

• 9 Dec 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for the construction of a new 151m2, 2 storey extension to the south western elevation of the single storey dwelling house, with minor alterations to the existing dwelling required to facilitate the proposed extension. Permission is also sought for a new vehicular entrance at the north west corner of the site, including new entrance piers and gates, with new driveway formed to connect to the existing dwelling house, including landscaping and all site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6345

• 3 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission to complete construction of and to indefinitely retain the combined garage and storage shed and all associated site development works. The garage and storage shed will be used solely for purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the associated dwelling.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4005

• 19 Dec 2019Unconditional

  The renovation of an existing waterwheel and wheelhouse, provision of a rock ramp fishpass, remedial works to an existing weir and associated infrastructure. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No 14/04882.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/7018

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  Construct a dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4776

• 22 Aug 2018Conditional

  Construction of extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6218

• 12 Feb 2018Refused

  Erect a dormer style dwelling house, with detached domestic garage, on site waste water treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4361

• 10 Oct 2017Incompleted application

  To erect a dormer style dwelling house, with detached domestic garage on site waste water treatment system entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6636

• 2 Jun 2015Refused

  Dormer style dwelling house, with 4 no. detached stables, on-site waste water treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5157

• 15 May 2014Unconditional

  Construction of 4 no. detached dwellinghouses, 4 no. garages and proprietary treatment systems, bored well and water storage facilities, upgrading of existing agricultural entrance to vehicular entrance, new agricultural entrance, green areas and ancillary site works and boundary treatments - Extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 08/10376

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/4996

• 30 Apr 2014Conditional

  The renovation of an existing waterwheel and wheelhouse, provision of a rock ramp fishpass, remedial works to an existing weir and associated infrastructure.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4882

• 29 Aug 2013Conditional

  Retention of dwelling house, vehicular entrance as constructed, installation of septic tank and altered site boundaries (alteration to dwelling, site layout and site boundaries permitted under Planning Ref. No. 03/3355), and permission for installation of a sand polishing filter to serve existing septic tank and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5687

• 26 Jul 2013Incompleted application

  Renovation of an existing waterwheel, provision of a rock ramp fishpass, remedial works to an existing weir and associated infrastructure. This development consists of works to a structure within the curtilage of a protected structure.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5458

• 23 Dec 2008Conditional

  Construction of 4 no. detached dwellinghouses, 4 no. garages and proprietary treatment systems,bored well and water storage facilities, upgrading of existing agricultural entrance to vehicular entrance, new agricultural entrance, green areas and ancillary site works and boundary treatments

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10376

• 20 Feb 2008Conditional

  Construction of single storey dwelling, detached garage and installation of proprietary treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4871

• 11 Sept 2007Refused

  Residential development of 8 no. dwellinghouses and installation of treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10921

• 8 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Residential development of 8 no. dwellinghouses, treatment plant and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10145

• 4 Jul 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8572

• 1 Mar 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5189

• 21 Feb 2006Incompleted application

  Site development works for 11 no. dwellinghouses

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4950

• 23 Jan 2006Incompleted application

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4253

• 23 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Site development works for 11 no. serviced sites and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9823

• 14 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Bungalow and workshop

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9286

• 21 Apr 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2590

• 30 Aug 2004Conditional

  Demolition of outbuilding, construction of garage and alterations and extensions to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6577

The 25 most recent of 31 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO045-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m); S->N trackway follows line of enclosure. Levelled; low raised area visible; field fences curve to respect site SW->NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO045-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on level area on N-facing slope overlooking Aghern to N. At junction of four fields. Roughly circular area (22m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by simple bank; lower 0.7m of original bank survives to E; elsewhere replaced by stone wall or refaced. Planted with trees. Gaps to NNE, SE. Interior used for feeding cattle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO045-121 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Built against natural slope. Front (H 6m; Wth 6.5m) N-facing; arched recess, now filled with rubbish. Top of kiln overgrown. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO045-132 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Symbol on Bateman map (1716-1717, no. 58) for three ringforts in townland, two of which are known (4920 and 4569); third depicted in centre of townland; exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO045-143 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope. Indicated on a 1773-4 map (no. 23) by B. Scalé (NLI MSS 7216-18). A barely discernible ridge extends in a slight arc (L 14m E-W), which may be the N sector remnants of the bank of the possible rath. A field boundary indicated on the 1935 OS 6-inch map immediately to the NW has been removed and there is a farm roadway running roughly E-W across the levelled S half of the monument. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO045-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In an overgrown fallow area of a field at the edge of a steep precipice. Indicated as a circular 'Danish Fort' a 1773-4 map (no. 23) by B. Scalé (NLI MSS 7216-18). The remains consist of a raised D-shaped area (12.5m N-S), with the straight side at N (L 19m), defined by a scarp E-W. The height of the scarp varies between 0.35m and c. 2m, being highest towards the E. On the straight N side the rath is defined by a steep precipice (H c. 6m) that drops down to a valley floor. The interior slopes gently down to the N. There is a N-S farm roadway immediately to the E of the rath. 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

• Brideweir House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey former rectory, built c. 1825, having two-bay end elevations, that to east having entrance doorway, three-bay side elevations, and two-bay single-storey lean-to extension to north with recent conservatory to west side. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, those to ground floor set within shallow round-headed recesses. Timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-nine pane to ground floor and six-over-six pane to first floor, all with painted render sills and first floor windows having render surrounds. Round-headed doorway set within shallow elliptical-headed recess, having spoked fanlight, moulded timber cornice and timber panelled door, latter flanked by fluted timber Doric-style pilasters and approached by flight of limestone steps. Square-profile roughcast rendered piers with acorn finials, leading to area around house, and roughly dressed square-profile sandstone piers to road entrance with render caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates set to rubble sandstone boundary walls with render copings.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knocknagapple, 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 Knocknagapple.

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.

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

Name

Knocknagapple · Cnoc na gCapall

Area

1,186,846 m² (118.68 ha, 293.28 acres)

Civil parish

Aghern, and its townlands

Barony

Kinatalloon

Electoral division

Aghern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

239 people lived in 84 households in the Aghern electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghern East, Aghern West, Ballylusky, Ballynella, Ballyrobert, Garryantaggart, Grange, Park, Pellick

Placenames

Knocknagapple 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.