Knocknahilan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknahilan, from 36 m² to 399,134 m² (39.91 ha, 98.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knocknahilan 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.

• 26 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for the construction of a two-storey detached dwelling house, the construction of a detached domestic garage with first floor storage space, the construction of a site entrance, the installation of a private well, the installation of a wastewater treatment unit and associated soil polishing filter, and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6598

• 6 Nov 2024Incompleted application

  Permission to demolish existing haybarn & leanto shed and permission to construct storage shed/workshop

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6095

• 10 Aug 2023Conditional

  The construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5628

• 23 Jul 2020Conditional

  Permission for a) the retention of an extension to an existing agricultural building consisting of a dry store, b) the retention of an existing agricultural building consisting of livestock cubicle housing, slatted slurry storage tank and feeding area, c) the construction of an extension to an agricultural building comprising of livestock cubicle housing, slatted slurry storage and covered feeding area, d) the demolition of an existing silage slab, e) the construction of an agricultural building comprising of loose straw bed calf housing, f) the construction of three silage pits and associated silage apron, g) the construction of a silage effluent storage tank, h) the construction of three meal bins, i) the construction of ancillary concrete and j) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5566

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  a) The construction of a cattle underpass beneath a public road incorporating a soiled water storage tank, b) the construction of 2 No. new agricultural entrances to replace the 2 No. agricultural entrances required to be closed to facilitate the construction of the cattle underpass and c) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7413

• 8 May 2018Incompleted application

  Demolish existing storage shed and the construction of extension to the back elevation of existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5148

• 26 Mar 2018Incompleted application

  Demolish an existing small storage shed and the construction of a new extension to the back elevation of existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4738

• 31 Oct 2017Conditional

  Construction of a private dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6817

• 9 Oct 2017Incompleted application

  New dwelling, garage and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6632

• 3 Oct 2016Conditional

  Construct a milking parlour, roofed holding yard with slatted slurry tank, dairy, plant room, office, slatted cow path with slatted slurry tank, silage slab, soiled water tank, feed storage bin, extension to existing cattle house and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6444

• 31 Aug 2015Conditional permission

  Single storey side extension to existing dwelling, and alterations to existing dwelling together with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5934

• 5 Jun 2014Conditional

  Retention of (a) garage incorporating first floor storage area in attic space, and (b) front roadside boundary wall and entrance gates

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5199

• 23 Apr 2014Incompleted application

  Retention of (a) garage incorporating first floor storage area in attic space and (b) front roadside boundary wall and entrance gates

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/4826

• 3 Dec 2012Conditional

  Construction of extension to dwellinghouse, installation of treatment unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6462

• 12 Nov 2012Incompleted application

  Construction of extension to dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6317

• 24 Aug 2011Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/5827

• 10 Aug 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of alterations to elevations and size of dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/5716

• 17 Nov 2010Conditional

  Retention of 2 no. vacant shed structures to be used for the accommodation of livestock. Permission for minor alterations to the structures in order to enable this use, to include the installation of roof vents, and for the installation of a new slurry storage tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8493

• 5 May 2010Refused

  Construction of single storey extension to dwellinghouse and alterations to existing elevations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5078

• 7 Apr 2010Incompleted application

  Single storey extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4798

• 10 Sept 2009Conditional

  Installation of 1no. waste water treatment system & percolation area. Retention of 4no. shed structures (Blocks A,B,C & D) & 1no. toilet block. Blocks A & B are to be retained for agricultural storage use ( dry goods and/or machinery), while Blocks C & D are to be retained for their existing commercial storage use (storage of shopfitting materials)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7007

• 4 Dec 2008Conditional

  Construction of two-storey dormer style extension including raising part of existing roof to allow for additional living space and single storey extension to single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage and retention of effluent treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9966

• 14 Nov 2008Incompleted application

  Extension to dwellinghouse, construction of domestic garage and retention of effluent treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9682

• 10 Apr 2008Conditional

  Dormer style dwellinghouse and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5969

• 11 Feb 2008Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4672

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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocknahilan.

Recorded monuments

• CO084-058 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture. Spread of burnt material noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Knocknahilian House, house, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1908, with recent glazed porch to rear (south). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls with incised render date plaque above door to front (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Square-headed door openings with replacement glazed aluminium door to front elevation and timber panelled door to interior of porch, having sidelights and margined overlight. Rendered square-profile piers to front of site with wrought-iron gate. Two-storey outbuilding to east having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber casement windows and timber battened doors. Set within own grounds.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Knocknahilan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Knocknahilan · Cnoc na hAidhleann

Area

1,438,424 m² (143.84 ha, 355.44 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbonane, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Kilbonane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbonane electoral division: 1,344 people in 415 households; 89% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aherla More, Ballymountain, Kilbane, Kilcrea, Knockaneleigh, Rathard, Scart Upper

Placenames

Knocknahilan 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.