Knocknastooka
Knocknastooka is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc na Stuaice.
- Area
- 49.1 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 10,565 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknastooka, from 848 m² to 155,504 m² (15.55 ha, 38.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knocknastooka 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
8 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, an effluent treatment system and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6720
20 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, upgrade existing site entrance and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6530
19 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for a) construction of a new agricultural building to include robotic milking facilities, ancillary room, livestock housing with underground slatted tanks and adjoining feed passage, b) Erection of a feed bin, c) construction of a livestock under pass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5188
18 Oct 2017Conditional
Construct a dwellinghouse and garage with related site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6697
11 Apr 2017Withdrawn
A cattle underpass and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4858
15 Feb 2007Conditional
Alterations and single storey extensions to rear elevation, single storey extension to front elevation and construction of garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5078
24 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse and construction of new garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12895
2 Nov 2006Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse with courtyard and ancillary outbuildings to include car port, 2 no. quarantine horse stables, tack room and general storage rooms and separate stable building to include 14 no. horse stables, surveillance and storage area
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11938
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 Knocknastooka.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknastooka.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknastooka.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Knocknastooka, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknastooka.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knocknastooka with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knocknastooka · Cnoc na Stuaice
- Area
- 491,250 m² (49.13 ha, 121.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Boulteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 695 people lived in 237 households in the Boulteen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boulteen, Carrigroe, Garranelahan, Lisnacunna, Maulbrack West
- Placenames
- Knocknastooka 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.