Knocksaharn
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamartery, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Cnoc Sathairn
- Area
- 181.2 ha
- 448 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,710 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocksaharn, from 183 m² to 434,025 m² (43.4 ha, 107.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Knocksaharn 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 May 2025Refused
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4922
26 Jul 2024Refused
Permission to construct a joinery workshop building incorporating workshop area, timber storage area, office, staff facilities, storage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5435
26 Sept 2018Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6536
22 Nov 2013Conditional
Teach nua le coras chóireala d’fhuíolluisce a thógáilt
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6219
11 Jul 2013Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, domestic garage and new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5336
17 Dec 2007Conditional
Construction of conservatory extension to dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13114
1 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5564
15 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwelling and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6988
4 Mar 2003Conditional
Retention of domestic garage & revised site layout for dwelling, entrance & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/903
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 Knocksaharn.
Recorded monuments
- CO069-033 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842, 1904 and 1946 OS 6-inch maps. Location marked on 1904 OS 6-inch map by Munster Archaeological Survey (UCC). In level pasture, on S side of Cloneera Wood. Removed; no visible surface trace. Conlon (1918, 125) noted three stones here in marshy ground, two standing and one prostrate. A is 2 feet high, 1 foot 6 inches broad, 11 inches thick. B is 3 feet 9 inches hight, 2 feet 8 inches broad, 11 inches thick, 4 feet 10 inches from A. C (prostrate); is 5 feet 8 inches long, 3 feet 5 inches broad, 2 feet 4 inches thick, 4 feet 1 inch from B'. He suggested that there may have been a stone circle here as there were several other stones lying around. 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
- CO069-034 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Stone (H 2.05m; 1.75m x 1m) is irregular in plan, leaning to NE; long axis NW-SE. 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
- CO069-035 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Shown on 1940 OS 6-inch map as single standing stone incorporated into E-W field fence. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Field fence and stone removed. 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
- CO069-068 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Low oval mound of burnt material (12m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.4m). 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
- CO069-092 Enclosure
Description
Described by Colm Chambers as 'circular, 5 metres in diameter internally and 12 metres externally. The floor of the enclosure is raised 50cm or more above the external ground level. The bank is of stone and some earth and its maximum height is 1.7 metres, to the NE. There does not appear to be an entrance. There is possibly the remains of an external fosse'.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocksaharn.
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 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 Knocksaharn.
- 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 Knocksaharn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knocksaharn · Cnoc Sathairn
- Area
- 1,811,726 m² (181.17 ha, 447.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnamartery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Candroma, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Candroma electoral division: 333 people in 123 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Candroma, Cloheena, Cools, Derrintogher, Gortanaddan, Kilmakaroge, Lisboy Beg
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Knocksaharn 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.