Knocknagun

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagun, from 206 m² to 292,018 m² (29.2 ha, 72.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knocknagun 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.

• 26 Sept 2025N/a

  REDIII: The development will consist of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on an overall site of c. 152.6 hectares consisting of the following: c. 449,366 sq m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 19 no. hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks with passing bays; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-6507, R557, and L-2034 public roads, 3no. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) locations associated with the underground cable route; a total of 5 no. solar farm site entrances (1no. from the R557 public road, 3no. from the L-6507 public road and 1no. from the L-10562 public road); access gates; 5no. temporary site compounds of c. 4,050 sq m each to be used for storage during construction activity; 28no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Containers and 7no. associated MV Stations as well as associated CCTV, BESS compound fencing, gate, boundary fencing and all associated ancillary drainage development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560875

• 14 Apr 2020Conditional

  (1) DEMOLISH EXISTING 2 STOREY REAR DOMESTIC EXTENSION AND (2) TO CONSTRUCT REAR SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATES SITE WORKS (3) TO REBUILD EXISTING CHIMNEY TO WESTERN GABLE AND (4) TO INSTALL NEW WINDOW TO FIRST FLOOR REAR ELAVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (5) TO DEMOLISH EXISTING BOILER HOUSE, ALL THE ABOVE TO EXISTING 2 STOREY DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20345

• 24 Jul 2017Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING ANNEX AND SHED TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR (SOUTH FACING) AND SIDE (WEST FACING) ELEVATIONS, CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING PROVISION OF NEW WINDOWS ON WEST FACING ELEVATION AND REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING DOOR ON FRONT (NORTH FACING) ELEVATION WITH NEW WINDOW, INSTALL NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND CARRY OUT ASSOICATED SITE WORKS. RETENTION PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR AS CONSTRUCTED DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17714

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 Knocknagun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knocknagun.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknagun.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_145 (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.

No address of the register names Knocknagun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Knocknagun

Area

700,073 m² (70.01 ha, 172.99 acres)

Civil parish

O'Dorney, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Abbeydorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeydorney electoral division: 1,244 people in 458 households; 76% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aulanebane, Aulaneduff, Boherroe, Farran, Knocknacaska, Lacka More

Placenames

Knocknagun 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.