# Reenaknock, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork; in Irish Rinn an Chnoic. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 516,987 m² (51.7 ha, 127.75 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 115,983 m² (11.6 ha, 28.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmocomoge, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilmocomoge.md - Barony: Bantry - Electoral division: Whiddy, the unit of the census - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/8645 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44819 - Centre: latitude 51.683102, longitude -9.524454 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reenaknock, from 335 m² to 183,027 m² (18.3 ha, 45.23 acres); 2 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2321437: 183,027 m² (18.3 ha, 45.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2321437.md - Parcel 2321438: 135,162 m² (13.52 ha, 33.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2321438.md - Parcel 2321440: 115,983 m² (11.6 ha, 28.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2321440.md - Parcel 2321441: 61,514 m² (6.15 ha, 15.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2321441.md - Parcel 2321439: 335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2321439.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 20 May 2025, Cork County Council 25/278: Conditional permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/278 - 14 May 2025, Cork County Council 25/264: Conditional. Permission. Construction for an emergency response store and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/264 - 6 Apr 2018, Cork County Council 18/198: Conditional. Permission. Replace the existing septic tank serving the Control Room with a new advanced treatment system and polishing filter. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/198 - 17 Jul 2008, Cork County Council 08/1334: Conditional. Permission. Extension to south western side of existing Fire Station consisting of steel portal frames and insulated prefinished composite cladding. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/1334 - 7 Jun 2001, Cork County Council 01/3243: Conditional. Permission. Extension to workshop & conversion of stores for provision of toilet/locker/ canteen facilities. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=01/3243 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Reenaknock. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO118-077: Battery, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO118-077----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - School, 1885–1890, Regional interest, registry number 20911802, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20911802. 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, registry number 20911803, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20911803. 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). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/reenaknock.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/reenaknock.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/reenaknock.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Reenaknock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Close: https://everytownland.com/cork/close.md - Kilmore: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilmore-43533.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/reenaknock - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/reenaknock