Knocknaraha

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaraha, from 307 m² to 179,643 m² (17.96 ha, 44.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knocknaraha 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.

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for retention of alterations to dwelling house under construction permitted under planning reference no. 24-330 including revised floor level, also permission for domestic garage and revised wastewater treatment system along with all associated site development works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/440

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  Construction of a) 1 no. new single storey dwelling house, b) new vehicular entry and driveway, c) on site proprietary wastewater treatment system and D) all associated site and landscaped works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/330

• 27 May 2024Withdrawn

  To construct a dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/263

• 19 Apr 2024Incompleted application

  Construction of A) 1 no. new single storey dwelling house, B) new vehicular entry and driveway, C) on site proprietary wastewater treatment system and D) all associated site and landscaped works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/188

• 7 Sept 2020Refused

  Permission for change of use from dispensary to private dwelling also permission for rear extension to same, wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/474

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  Permission for retention of alterations and partial change of garage / store to ancillary dwelling unit for use as family accommodation

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/642

• 19 Sept 2019Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of alterations and partial change of garage / store to ancillary dwelling unit for use as family accommodation

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/597

• 9 Jun 2010Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/404

• 5 May 2010Incompleted application

  Construct a dwelling house and septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/314

• 24 Apr 2009Conditional

  Alterations & Extensions to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/475

• 29 Jun 2007Conditional

  Roof cattle yard between existing housing; roof existing dungstead; increase size of existing soiled water tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1749

• 23 Nov 2006Conditional

  Construct a dwellinghouse and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2481

• 11 Jul 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse with detached garage and outbuilding

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4937

• 2 Mar 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1324

• 14 Mar 2003Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1134

• 12 Nov 2002Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4989

• 2 Jun 2000Refused

  Change of use from dispensary to private dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/3335

• 10 Dec 1999New application

  Erection of 23m high antenna support structure

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/6784

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 Knocknaraha.

Recorded monuments

• CO141-105 Burial ground
  Description

  In scrub. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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

• St. Matthew’s Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Church of Ireland church, built c.1860, comprising three-bay nave with single-bay transepts (north and south) and single-bay chancel (east), having gable-fronted entrance porch (south) and vestry (east). Pitched artificial slate roofs having bellcote with trefoil opening (west) and cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Lean-to artificial slate roof to vestry. Rendered and coursed limestone walls with plinth and granite block-and-start quoins. Single and paired pointed arch openings to nave and transepts having quarry glazed and casement windows with dressed chamfered stone surrounds and sills. Pointed arch openings to transepts with plate tracery comprising paired pointed arch openings and oculus opening with quarry glazing and hood moulding with square stops. Pointed arch opening to west elevation with tracery comprising multi-pointed arch openings, double oculi and central multi-foil opening with chamfered stone surrounds, hood moulding and lattice work stained glass windows. Pointed arch opening to chancel comprising triple pointed arch openings, having cinquefoil flanked by oculus above, having stained glass windows and chamfered stone surround with hood moulding. Square-headed openings to vestry having fixed pane quarry glazed windows with chamfered block-and-start stone surrounds. Pointed arch door opening to entrance porch having double-leaf timber battened doors, wrought-iron strap hinges, chamfered and dressed stone surrounds and hood moulding with square stops. Square-headed door opening to vestry having timber battened door with wrought-iron strap hinges, stone surround and stone step. Set within graveyard and enclosed by rubble limestone boundary walls with piers and wrought-iron gates.

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 Knocknaraha, about 1 in 10 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 Knocknaraha.

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

Name

Knocknaraha · Cnoc na Rátha

Area

664,206 m² (66.42 ha, 164.13 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadown, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Aghadown South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

623 people lived in 252 households in the Aghadown South electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardraly, Bigmarsh, Goleenmarsh, Gurteenroe, Knockeen, Letterscanlan

Placenames

Knocknaraha 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.