Knocknaloman
Townland in the civil parish of Drishane, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc na Luman
- Area
- 264 ha
- 652 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 2,348 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaloman, from 107 m² to 312,281 m² (31.23 ha, 77.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Knocknaloman 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
16 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house served by mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0958
9 Aug 2024Conditional
a) Permission for retention of existing domestic shed/garage, b) Permission to construct an extension and make elevational changes to existing dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5506
19 Jul 2024Incompleted application
Permission for (a) Retention Permission to retain existing domestic shed/garage. (b) Permission to construct an extension and make elevational changes to existing dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5372
27 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by septic tank and percolation area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4526
6 Apr 2021Conditional
To construct a new dwelling, installation of a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4864
6 Aug 2020Withdrawn
To construct an extension to an existing dwellinghouse to be used as a separate dwelling unit, incorporation of part of the existing dwelling (garage and bedroom) into same alterations to elevations of existing dwelling and installation of a septic tank and percolation area to serve both the existing and proposed dwelling units and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5682
7 Jun 2017Conditional
Construct an extension to an existing livestock house to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5410
22 May 2017Conditional
Retention of dormer windows at dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5258
29 Mar 2017Incompleted application
Retention of dormer windows in dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/4734
3 Feb 2017Conditional
(A) Construct a new easy feed slatted unit incorporating cubicles and associated underground slurry storage tank with 4 external agitation points (B) Demolish an existing shed ruin and construct in its place a new loose livestock house (C) Construct a walled manure pit and partially walled silage slab with associated underground soiled water tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4226
31 Jan 2017Incompleted application
Retention of dormer windows at our dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/4173
23 Dec 2016Incompleted application
The development will consist of (A) Construct a new easy feed slatted unit incorporating cubicles & associated underground slurry storage tanks with 4 external agitation points (B)Demolish an existing shed ruin & construct in its place a new loose livestock house (C) Construct a walled manure pit & partially walled silage slab with associated underground soiled water tank. To be carried out with associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7308
11 Nov 2015Conditional
(1) Alterations and renovations to existing dwelling house to include internal modifications to the existing layout. (2) Minor changes to elevations throughout the existing dwelling. (3) Construct single storey extensions to the rear, side and front of existing dwelling. (4) Construct a stand-alone domestic garage. (5) Install a new secondary wastewater treatment system. The proposed installation will include a Tricel mechanical treatment unit, followed by a Tricel Sandcell on a polishing filter. (6) Construct a new front boundary wall with splayed entrance walls, including all associated ancillary site works. (7) Permission to retain the existing rear extension as constructed.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6539
11 Mar 2015Conditional
Construct a traditional style single storey dwellinghouse with attic accommodation, install a septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4480
14 Oct 2014Conditional
Construction of (a) a two-storey dwelling house and domestic garage, (b) septic tank and percolation area, (c) new access roadway to site and all site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6198
18 Aug 2014Conditional
Permission for alterations to west elevation and ground and first floor extensions to existing dwellinghouse, construction of boiler house attached to side and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5754
29 Jul 2014Incompleted application
Construction of extension onto existing dwelling house and all site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5628
22 Apr 2014Conditional
Construction of a new dwelling, detached garage, waste water treatment system, and a new vehicular entrance with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4792
19 Dec 2013Refused
Construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6429
20 Dec 2010Incompleted application
Retention of extension to dwellinghouse as constructed
Retention · Cork County Council, 10/8743
31 May 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted cubicle house, dungstead and holding yard wall
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8308
4 May 2007Conditional
Construction of agricultural building for the housing of calves, soiled water tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7531
15 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Construction of agricultural building and soiled water tank and site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6056
23 Aug 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10005
23 May 2006Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7392
The 25 most recent of 33 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO038-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; circular area (26.3m E-W; 26m N-S) raised 0.4m above level of surrounding field survives. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknaloman.
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 moderately low, 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 Knocknaloman.
- 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 Knocknaloman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknaloman · Cnoc na Luman
- Area
- 2,639,796 m² (263.98 ha, 652.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drishane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Caherbarnagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caherbarnagh electoral division: 534 people in 197 households; 91% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherbarnagh, Inches, Knockagallane, Rathduane, Shinnagh (Co. Kerry)
- Placenames
- Knocknaloman 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.