Knockognoe
Knockognoe is a townland in the civil parish of Brosna, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 89.1 ha
- 220 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 2,495 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockognoe, from 55 m² to 283,272 m² (28.33 ha, 70 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Knockognoe 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
17 Feb 2026Conditional
(1) alterations to existing dwelling, façade and fenestration (2) construct first floor extension circa 116.00m2 to include car port and (3) decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area and replace with a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, including all other ancillary site works at Knockognoe Brosna Co. Kerry
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2660114
12 Aug 2024Conditional
RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED AN EXTENSION TO THE EXST OF THE SCHOOL CONSISTING OF A LIBRARY AND STAIR WELL WITH DISABLED TOILET AND NEW ENTRANCE TO SHCOOL BUILDING
Retention · Kerry County Council, 24326
31 Jul 2024Conditional
To construct a single storey dewlling, on-site wastewater treatment system consisting of a mechanical aeration unit, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460507
7 Oct 2022Conditional
DEVELOPMENT OF 2 NO. ON SITE TRIAL BOREHOLE, CONSISTING OF WELLHEAD PROTECTION, CONTROL KIOSK AND ASSOCIATED PIPEWORK
Permission · Kerry County Council, 221055
26 Nov 2021Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO INCLUDE MILKING FACILITIES, CUBICLES, STRAW BEDDED AREA, WAITING YARD, DAIRY AND ANCILLARY ROOMS, FLOW CHANNELS AND UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE TANKS (B) ERECTION OF A MEAL BIN AND WATER STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211356
14 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20967
6 Jul 2020Conditional
RETAIN RESTORATION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20589
27 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE, FRONT BOUNDARY ENTRANCE WALLS, MECHICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17603
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- KE024-010 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE032-003 Fulacht fia
Description
Fulacht fia described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as a 'roughly horse-shoe shaped mound (dims. 15.1m SSW-NNE x 7m SSE-NNW) of black burnt earth and shattered red stone. A spring used to rise in the field on the west and flowed into a drain along the field fence immediately to the west of the mound' (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022
- KE032-004 Fulacht fia
Description
Fulacht fia described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as a 'roughly horse-shoe shaped mound of burnt soil and stone with the opening lying between west and northeast. A larger fulacht fia (KE032-003----) lies 4.1m to the north' (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022
- KE032-005 Fulacht fia
Description
Fulacht fia described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as a 'low horse-shoe shaped mound (dims. 6m x 10.4m; H 0.35m) of black burnt soil and burnt red stone with opening at SE' (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022
- KE032-006 Fulacht fia
Description
Fulacht fia described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as a 'low roughly circular-shaped shaped mound (diam. 7.4m; H 0.15m) of black earth and burnt shattered red stone. There is no evidence of the trough area. Bordered by a drain and field fence on the east' (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022
- KE032-007 Fulacht fia
Description
Levelled fulacht fia described in 1985 by the 'Castleisland District Archaeological Survey' as the 'site of a levelled fulacht fiadh (dims. 11m NE-SW x 6.8m NW-SE), the burnt soil and the burnt shattered red stone can be easily seen'. The mound was levelled in the 1980s and, according to the Castleisland Survey, 'the landowner said he thought the mound had been horse-shoe shaped with the opening facing the northeast' (SMR file). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 April 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockognoe.
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 Knockognoe, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockognoe.
- 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 Knockognoe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Knockognoe
- Area
- 891,074 m² (89.11 ha, 220.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brosna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Gneeves, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 375 people lived in 149 households in the Gneeves electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brosna West, Carrigeenwood, Knockafreaghaun, Knoppoge
- Placenames
- Knockognoe 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.