Reenaknock

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reenaknock, from 335 m² to 183,027 m² (18.3 ha, 45.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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 Reenaknock 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.

• 20 May 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for alterations to the roof structure of existing tank no. 207, comprising the demolition and removal of the existing flat external floating roof and the construction of a new fixed domed roof with internal floating roof system, including the provision of fixed access stairs and handrail from top of the existing tank to top of the proposed domed roof and all other associated ancillary site works. The proposed development is for modifications to an establishment to which the Major Accident Directive applies. The proposed development is for the purpose of an activity requiring an Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Licence

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/278

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  Construction for an emergency response store and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/264

• 6 Apr 2018Conditional

  Replace the existing septic tank serving the Control Room with a new advanced treatment system and polishing filter

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/198

• 17 Jul 2008Conditional

  Extension to south western side of existing Fire Station consisting of steel portal frames and insulated prefinished composite cladding

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1334

• 7 Jun 2001Conditional

  Extension to workshop & conversion of stores for provision of toilet/locker/ canteen facilities

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3243

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 Reenaknock.

Recorded monuments

• CO118-077 Battery
  Description

  Abandoned circular redoubt on high ground at SW end of Whiddy Island; two similar redoubts (CO118-078---; CO105-032---) to NE. Indicated on OS 6-inch map (1842) as 'West Redoubt'. Defended by circular fosse (Wth 7.5m; D 8m) with outer circular glacis (Wth 36m). Parapet wall (Wth 4m; H 1.8m) around inner perimeter of fosse enclosing level circular (diam. 58m) area. At centre are two ranges; semi-circular in plan with central corridor (L 28m; Wth 3.6m); surrounded by high stone wall (H 6m). Each range consists of five single-storey barrel vaulted rooms. Well inside parapet to N. According to Kerrigan (1981, 5) built by 1808 to house 100 men and mounted eight guns. 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

• School, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey former school, built 1887, having gabled porch to front (north-west corner). Later in use as museum, now vacant. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted and lime-washed rendered walls with plaque to porch gable. Square-headed openings with six-over-six timber sliding sash and casement windows with concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door and a flight of concrete steps. Enclosed by rubble stone walls and piers with wrought-iron gate.

• West Battery, battery, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding circular-plan battery, built 1804. Now in ruins. Redoubt comprises circular-plan rubble stone lined ditch with coping stones. No access to interior due to unsafe drawbridge (east).

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Reenaknock.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Reenaknock.

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

Name

Reenaknock · Rinn an Chnoic

Area

516,987 m² (51.7 ha, 127.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmocomoge, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Whiddy, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Close, Kilmore

Placenames

Reenaknock 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.