Knockeen
Townland in the civil parish of Dingle, barony of Corkaguiny, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Cnoicín
- Area
- 27.6 ha
- 68 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 392 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockeen, from 30 m² to 109,710 m² (10.97 ha, 27.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Knockeen 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
10 Apr 2024Conditional
TO INSTALL A WINDOW SERVING 2 FLOORS, GROUND AND FIRST TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24149
20 Feb 2019Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES AND SITE WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19161
20 Feb 2019Conditional
RETAIN HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES AND SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19163
7 Nov 2017Conditional
RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE NUMBERS 20,22,34,35,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,49,50,51,53,54,55,56,57,58,59
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171108
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 Knockeen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockeen.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_16 (ZIP).
- 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 Knockeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Knockeen · An Cnoicín
- Area
- 275,523 m² (27.55 ha, 68.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dingle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Electoral division
- Glinn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glinn electoral division: 1,806 people in 654 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvownig, Ballybeg, Farran, Farraneesteenig, Gortonora, Kilnaglearagh
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Knockeen 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.