Knocknamuck
Townland in the civil parish of Brigown, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc na Muc
- Area
- 104.2 ha
- 257 acres
- Land parcels
- 55
- registered freehold, median 2,064 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknamuck, from 274 m² to 222,935 m² (22.29 ha, 55.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Aug 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of livestock underpass with effluent holding tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5618
10 Jul 2025Incompleted application
Permission for construction of a livestock underpass with effluent holding tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5384
1 Apr 2025Conditional permission
1) Construct an extension to their existing storage warehouse on the northern elevation. 2) Construction of a forklift charging room on the western elevation of the existing warehouse. 3) Installation of a new sectional door on the northern elevation of the existing facility. 4) Associated siteworks all at their existing facility.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4559
27 Jun 2022Conditional
(1) Minor modifications to the external façade (granted under Planning Reg. No. 21/5252) which includes one emergency exit door and one window on the northern elevation, one emergency exit door on the western elevation and using Kingspan RW Panel in lieu of Kingspan Cold Store Panel on the northern and western elevations (2) Installation of a new freezer container connected to the existing warehouse on the northern elevation and retention on completion for enclosing the walls around the existing external canopy to the north east of the site (granted under Planning Reg. No. 21/5252), including forming an emergency exit door on the eastern elevation and a roller shutter door on the north eastern elevation.
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/5506
22 Dec 2021Conditional
Part demolition of a single storey detached house and construction of extensions and alterations including new road boundary hedgerow and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7484
10 May 2021Conditional
(1) Extension to their existing storage warehouse (2) Construction of an external canopy to the rear of the facility and (3) Associated siteworks at their existing facility.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5252
16 Jul 2020Conditional
To install a fire water holding tank with palisade fence surround and to construct an associated pumphouse.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5500
8 Sept 2017Conditional
Construction of a new detached dwelling, new detached garage with store area, new biofiltration treatment unit, new potable well, new vehicular entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6332
6 Mar 2017Refused
The construction of a detached dwelling, new biofiltration treatment unit, new potable well, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4509
3 May 2016Incompleted application
Construction of detached dwelling, detached garage with store area, new biofiltration treatment unit, new potable well, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5025
1 Apr 2016Incompleted application
The construction of a new detached dwelling, detached garage with store area, new biofiltration treatment unit, new portable well, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4738
31 May 2012Conditional
Retention of domestic garage with attached domestic storeroom
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5192
22 Jun 2010Conditional
Two storey detached dwelling with attached garage and car port, packaged waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5534
6 Nov 2009Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7556
13 Oct 2009Incompleted application
Dwelling house, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7317
12 Oct 2009Application finalised
Dwelling, garage, entrance, proprietary treatment system, soil polising filter and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7305
23 Dec 2008Conditional
Removal of existing septic tank and installation of proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10328
23 Dec 2008Refused
Dwelling, garage, entrance, proprietary treatment system, soil polishing filter and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10371
23 Jan 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/4290
20 Nov 2007Conditional
Construction of agricultural shed for housing of cattle and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12487
25 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Construction of agricultural shed for housing of cattle
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11933
5 Oct 2007Conditional
Construction of dry goods storage building, above ground water storage tank, pump house, diesel sound attenuation three phase generator and retention of extension to existing car park and extension to existing cold storage building
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11481
27 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Construction of agricultural shed for housing of cattle
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11271
11 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Construction of dry goods storage building, above ground water storage tank, pump house, diesel sound attenuated three phase generator and retention of extension to existing car park and retention of extension to existing building
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10920
30 Mar 2007Withdrawn
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/6626
The 25 most recent of 28 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocknamuck.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknamuck.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknamuck.
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 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 Knocknamuck.
- 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 Knocknamuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknamuck · Cnoc na Muc
- Area
- 1,041,772 m² (104.18 ha, 257.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brigown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Mitchelstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mitchelstown electoral division: 5,219 people in 2,034 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardglare, Carrigane, Garryleagh, Gurteennaboul, Kildrum
- Placenames
- Knocknamuck 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.