Knockanes
Knockanes is a townland in the civil parish of Killaha, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Na Cnocáin.
- Area
- 245.7 ha
- 607 acres
- Land parcels
- 135
- registered freehold, median 2,529 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
135 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanes, from 14 m² to 220,280 m² (22.03 ha, 54.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Knockanes 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
28 Sept 2026N/a
planning permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660931
2 Sept 2026N/a
planning permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and peat polishing filter
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660837
8 May 2026Conditional
Permission for a two-storey dwelling house, single-storey garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, including all associated site works above and below ground
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660407
25 Oct 2024Conditional
retain domestic garage as constructed and planning permission to (a) construct an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, convert the existing attic space into living accommodation and construct dormer windows to the rear elevation (b) permission to decommission existing septic tank and install new mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter and at Knockanes, Headford, Killarney, Co Kerry
Retention, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 2460831
27 May 2024Conditional
(A) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW GLAZED OUT DOOR LIVING SPACE. (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO RAISE EXISTING BOUNDARY WALL BY APPROXIMATELY 800 MM AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24209
23 Apr 2024Conditional
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460243
15 Dec 2023Conditional
The development consists of retention of alterations to the façade including 1) the removal of a door with sidelight and a window on the south elevation, replaced by a triple pane sliding door and 2) the removal of an existing window on the east elevation, replaced by a new window.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360417
10 Nov 2023N/a
The development consists of retention of alterations to the façade including 1) the removal of a door with sidelight and a window on the south elevation, replaced by a triple pane sliding door and 2) the removal of an existing window on the east elevation, replaced by a new window.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2360312
20 Jul 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO AGRICULTURAL SLATTED/STORAGE SHED, C/W UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE, RAINWATER TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL IN ACCORDANCE IWTH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23827
10 Jan 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 229
22 Mar 2021Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21289
29 May 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT AGRICULTURAL SLATTED/STORAGE SHED, UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20464
21 Jun 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18616
11 Oct 2017Conditional
RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 13/113
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171009
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockanes.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockanes.
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 Knockanes, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_298 (ZIP).
- 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 Knockanes with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Knockanes · Na Cnocáin
- Area
- 2,457,444 m² (245.74 ha, 607.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Brewsterfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 805 people lived in 281 households in the Brewsterfield electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardteegalvan, Brewsterfield, Cloghane, Cools, Coracow, Dromcarban, Headfort, Knockanimrish
- Placenames
- Knockanes 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.