Knocknaskagh
Townland in the civil parish of Britway, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc na Sceach
- Area
- 34 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 24,156 m² (2.42 ha, 5.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknaskagh, from 2,638 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 98,919 m² (9.89 ha, 24.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Knocknaskagh 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
17 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to erect hay and straw storage shed and widen existing on site agricultural entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6847
20 Apr 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2621
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 Knocknaskagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO054-044 Standing stone
Description
Marked 'Gallán' on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Inaccessible due to forestry. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknaskagh.
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 moderately high, 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 Knocknaskagh.
- 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 Knocknaskagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknaskagh · Cnoc na Sceach
- Area
- 339,600 m² (33.96 ha, 83.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Britway, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Templebodan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templebodan electoral division: 709 people in 202 households; 91% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyogaha East, Ballyogaha North, Barrafohona, Coolknedane South, Curraghdermot
- Placenames
- Knocknaskagh 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.