Knoppoge

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knoppoge, from 11 m² to 480,992 m² (48.1 ha, 118.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use, general development (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Education
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism & related (Tourism and related)
  Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 Sept 2026N/a

  PERMISSION/RETENTION PERMISSION AS FOLLOWS; (I) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN HOUSE AS BUILT AND (II) PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM HOLIDAY HOME TO RESIDENTIAL USE AT 15 LAKEVIEW VILLAS, AGHADOE, KILLARNEY, CO. KERRY V93 X3V5

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660940

• 6 Jul 2026N/a

  Full Planning Permission to construct a residential development consisting of nine (no.9) dwelling houses served by the mains foul and surface water drainage systems together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660627

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  change design of dwelling granted under Planning Ref. no. 25/60186 to include an additional bedroom

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561093

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  Full Planning Permission to construct a new dwelling and domestic shed with septic tank, percolation area and all associated site services.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560186

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission for 1) change of use from youth hostel to private dwelling, 2) the demolition of later single storey extension, 3) conservation repairs, material alterations incorporating elevational modifications and the construction of a single storey extension to Aghadoe House, along with all associated site services and site works, all at Aghadoe house, Knoppoge, Aghadoe, Killarney Co. Kerry V93DK00. This is a protected structure.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560151

• 20 Feb 2025N/a

  INVALID: lanning Permission for 1) change of use from youth hostel to private dwelling, 2) the demolition of later single storey extension, 3) conservation repairs, material alterations incorporating elevational modifications and the construction of a single storey extension to Aghadoe House, along with all associated site services and site works, all at Aghadoe house, Knoppoge, Aghadoe, Killarney Co. Kerry V93DK00. This is a protected structure – RPS Ref. No. 066-014.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560107

• 27 Jan 2025N/a

  Planning Permission for 1) change of use from youth hostel to private dwelling, 2) the demolition of later single storey extension, 3) conservation repairs, material alterations incorporating elevational modifications and the construction of a single storey extension to Aghadoe House, along with all associated site services and site works, all at Aghadoe house, Knoppoge, Aghadoe, Killarney Co. Kerry V93DK00. This is a protected structure – RPS Ref. No. 066-014.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560032

• 18 Jun 2024Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING PREMISES PART OF WHICH WILL BE FOR GUEST ACCOMMODATION USE AND PART FOR PRIVATE USE AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (B) PLANNING PERMISSIION TO ALTER LOCATION OF EXISTING DRIVEWAY SERVING THE PREMISES AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24256

• 12 Jun 2024Conditional

  (A) PLANNING PERMISSION TO REMOVE 3 NUMBER STEEL CONTAINERS AND A CONCRETE BASE FROM THE SITE (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT 2 NUMBER 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, BOUNDARIES, FOOTPATHS, OPEN SPACES. (C) PLANNING PERMISSION TO REMOVE PART OF EXISTING STONE ENTRANCE AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO ALLOW FOR A 5.5 METRE WIDE ACCESS ROAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT (D) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SERVICE ROAD (E) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DIVERT EXISTING STREAM TO THE REAR OF THE SITES

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 24237

• 1 Aug 2023Conditional

  Full Planning Permission to construct a new dwelling house, detached garage and wastewater treatment system with all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360065

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT ONE NEW TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENT ON THE FIRST FLOOR LEVEL WITH PRIVATE AMENITY SPACES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23318

• 15 Jan 2021Conditional

  REGISTER NO. 19/528 - FOR A HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND FOR PERMISSION FOR ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 219

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  (1) RETAIN THE FOUNDATION TO THE PROPOSED FRONT ELEVATION PORCH AND (2) PLANNING PERMISSION TO MAKE ALTERATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 18/1070

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201128

• 24 Sept 2020Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT 4 NEW TOWN HOUSES, ONE DUPLEX AND ONE NO . ONE BED APARTMENT WITH PRIVATE AMENITY SPACES, (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE EXISTING BUTCHER SHOP WITH GARAGE AND STORES ROOMS TO THE REAR AND SIDE AND (C) CONSTRUCT AND CARRY OUT AN ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING BUILDING AND ADD ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING SPACES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT AGHADOE APARTMENTS

  Permission, 6 homes · Kerry County Council, 20875

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  1) RETAIN THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE, AND 2)RETAIN THE FOUNDATION AND GROUND WORKS AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COTTAGE AS AN OUTBUILDING ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 18/1070, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20685

• 19 Jun 2020N/a

  (1) RETAIN THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE AND (2) PERMISSION TO RE-CONSTRUCT THE COTTAGE AS AN OUTBUILDING ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 18/1070

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 20534

• 21 Apr 2020Conditional

  HOUSE, TREATMENT UNIT, SAND POLISHING FILTER AND VEHICULAR ENTRANCE

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20369

• 30 Oct 2019Conditional

  CHANGE USE OF PREMISES FROM EXISTING HOLIDAY RESIDENTIAL USE TO PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL USE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191112

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  CONSERVATION AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE DERELICT NINETEENTH CENTURY COACH HOUSE AND ADJOINING COURTYARD (381M2) LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF AGHADOE HOUSE (A PROTECTED STRUCTURE (RPS-KY-21306614) FOR SENSITIVE INCORPORATION AND REUSE AS PART OF A CRAFT DISTILLERY, INCLUDING REINSTATEMENT OF ROOF, ADDITION OF A GLAZED CANOPY TO FORM A COVERED ENTRANCE SPACE AND MINOR ALTERATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE A RECEPTION AREA, CAFE, RESTAURANT, BAR FACILITIES AND RETAIL SPACE AT GROUND FLOOR. REINSTATEMENT OF PERIMETER BUILDINGS WITHIN THE EXISTING COURTYARD IN PLACE OF LOST HISTORIC STRUCTURES TO ACCOMMODATE CAFE, RESTAURANT, BAR FACILITIES (74M2) AND MILL (36M2), AND ADDITIONS TO EXISTING OUTBUILDINGS (42M2) TO ACCOMMODATE KITCHEN, STORES, STAFF FACILITIES AND A NEW ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION. REMOVAL OF RUINED LEAN TO STRUCTURES (55M2) AND TWENTIETH CENTURY TIMBER FRAMED SHED (18M2) AND CONCRETE WATER TANK (15M2). REINSTATEMENT OF FIRST FLOOR MEZZANINE LEVEL (102M2) WITH ATTENDANT STAIRS AND LIFT TO ACCOMMODATE AN ANCILLARY OFFICE AND VISITOR SANITARY FACILITIES. WORKS TO CONSERVE, REPAIR AND EXEND THE PARTLY DEMOLISHED STONE WALL FORMING THE BOUNDARY WITH AGHADOE HOUSE, MAKING PROVISION FOR PRESERVATION OF AN EXISTING WALKING ROUTE BETWEEN THE NEARBY R563 ROAD JUNCTION AND FOSSA PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND REINSTATEMENT OF EXTERNAL GROUND SURFACES WITHIN THE COURTYARD AND FORECOURT. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 690M2 STILL HOUSE /MULTIPURPOSE EVENT SPACE ACCOMMODATING DISTILLATION PROCESS EQUIPMENT, TASTING AREA, BAR FACILITIES, LOWER GROUND FLOOR MECHANICAL AREA, ANCILLARY PLANT SPACE, DISTILLING STAFF ACCOMMODATION, TESTING LABORATORY AND ATTENDANT EXTERNAL STORAGE SILOS, PROCESS VESSELS, CO-PRODUCT STORAGE VESSELS, COOLING TOWER, PH BALANCE TANK, UNDERGROUND LPG STORAGE, UNDERGROUND FIREFIGHTING WATER STORAGE AND ALL ANCILLAR Y SITE DEVELOPMENT AND LANDSCAPE WORKS WHILE PROVIDING FOR PRESERVATION OF MATURE AND SPECIMEN TREES. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 460M2 MATURATION STORAGE BUILDING INCLUDING CASK FILLING AND DISGORGING FACILITIES, BOTTLING STATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT AND LANDSCAPE WORKS WHILE PROVIDING FOR PRESERVATION OF MATURE AND SPECIMEN TREES. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE AND INTERNAL ROADWAY FROM THE R563 SENSITIVELY INCORPORATED WITHIN THE WOODLAND TO PROVIDE SOLE VEHICULAR ACCESS TO THE SITE WITH ATTENDANT LIGHTING, SIGNAGE, GATE AND LANDSCAPING WORKS AND PROVISION OF ASSOCIATED CAR, BICYCLE AND COACHING PARKING. (SEE NEWSPAPER AD.)

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19565

• 21 May 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT TWO NO. DWELLING HOUSES AND ASSSOCIATED TREATMENT UNITS AND SANDPOLISHING FILTERS, VEHICULAR ENTRANCES

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 19528

• 18 Jan 2019Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT 2 DWELLING HOUSES (B) RETENTION OF THE EXISTING ENTRANCE (C) REVISE OVERALL SITE BOUNDARY (D) REVISE PLANS AND ELEVATIONS AT PROPOSED HOUSE AT SITE NUMBER 2 AS WELL AS NEW SEPERATE ENTRANCE AT SITE NUMBER 2 AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 1925

• 20 Nov 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCT 2 DWELLINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181134

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCT A NEW ROOF OVER EXISTING WALLED SILAGE SLAB (11) CONSTRUCT A NEW WALLED SILAGE SLAB WITH 2 CONCRETE APRONS AND ADJACENT CONCRETE FEED TROUGH WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181123

• 6 Nov 2018Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT 2 NEW ENTRANCE PORCHES TO EXISTING APARTMENTS (B) CARRY OUT MINOR ALTERATIONS AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO FRONT ELEVATIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181086

• 2 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE. PERMISSION IS FURTHER SOUGHT TO CONVERT THE EXISTING COTTAGE TO AN ANCILLARY OUT BUILDING; TO UPGRADE THE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SITE ENTRANCE TO A NEW DOMESTIC SITE ENTRANCE ; A NEW ACCESS ROAD ; THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER; THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDING LANDSCAPING AND BOUNDARY TREATMENTS ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181070

The 25 most recent of 29 applications.

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 Knoppoge.

Recorded monuments

• KE066-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a hillock, to the NW of farm buildings. This rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. The present remains consist of a semicircular area (c. 24m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m) SW-E and by farm buildings along the straight side at SE. The bank SW-W is skirted externally by a stone field boundary. An arc of bank NE-E has been disturbed externally. The interior slopes gently down to the SE. There is a stone-built structure outside the field boundary which skirts the bank along the SW arc. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE066-123 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (KE066-123001-). A vacant rectangular church (long axis E-W) built of random rubble sandstone with cut-limestone detail. The nave is lit by four pointed windows and a three-light E window. There is a three-storey bell tower at the W end with corner buttresses and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles; a datestone on the W wall records the building of the church in 1837. The vestry is at the E end of the N wall. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE066-123001 Graveyard
  Description

  A roughly triangular area (c. 80m E-W; c. 50m N-S at the E end) enclosed by a stone wall with the main entrance at W. There is a smaller entrance for pedestrians in the N side. The oldest gravemarkers noted date to the 1840s. A chest-tomb bearing a coat of arms is to the W of the church. The graveyard is not named on the 1846 OS 6-inch map although a triangular enclosure around the church is indicated. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• Aghadoe House, country house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two- and three-storey Lombardo Romanesque style country house, built c. 1860, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, 1828. Designed by William Atkins. Comprising two-bay two-storey advanced main block, single-bay two-storey flat-roofed entrance bay to right having single-storey prostyle tetrastyle limestone ashlar portico and single-bay two-storey projecting bay to left on an engaged octagonal plan. Two-bay two-storey side elevation to south-east with two-storey box bay window and three-bay two-storey elevation to south-west with single-bay two-storey return to rear and single-bay two-storey projecting pavilion block to south-west corner. Attached seven-bay three-storey service wing to north-west with single-bay three-storey advanced end bay to north-west. Burnt in 1922. Extensively reconstructed, c. 1925. Renovated in late twentieth century to accommodate use as youth hostel. Pitched and hipped profiled concrete tile roofs with deep overhanging boxed eaves to south section, rendered chimneystack with cornice, and having cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Pink sandstone ashlar walls with limestone plinth and entablature. Round-headed windows with flush limestone surrounds and concrete sills, paired at first floor. Some triple windows with rusticated cement surrounds. Triple-arch arcade to porch with balustrade, timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows and nine-panel door with fanlight. Detached six-bay two-storey stone-built stable building, built c. 1860, to north-west on a U-shaped plan comprising four-bay two-storey central block with segmental-headed integral carriage arches and single-bay two-storey projecting flanking end bays. Detached four-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1860, to north-west with open arcade; now derelict.

• Aghadoe House, gate lodge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1860, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre, single-bay single-storey canted flanking bays with round-headed recessed niches and two-bay side elevations with inverted canted section to centre. Pitched and hipped profiled concrete tile roof with chimneystack having scalloped limestone band and cornice. Limestone ashlar walls. Round-headed openings with limestone sills and flush surrounds. Remains of gateway, built c. 1860, to south comprising stone circular piers with cast-iron gate and curved quadrant walls, remodelled with one gate removed.

• Aghadoe Gardens, house, 1940–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey rubble stone-built Arts-and-Crafts style house, dated 1943, with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting entrance bay to right and two-bay single-storey end bay to north-west. Steeply pitched and hipped roofs. Rubble stone walls. Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding with attic, built c. 1870, to north-west retaining original fenestration with four-bay single-storey wing to south-east on a stepped plan. Gateway, built c. 1870, to south-west comprising pair of cast-iron piers with acorn finials having lattice-work iron gates.

• Aghadoe Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Gothic Revival style Church of Ireland church, dated 1837, with three-bay nave and single-bay single-storey gabled vestry projection to north-east corner. Single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west gable end completed, 1860. Now disused with openings blocked-up. Pitched slate roofs with gable copings, cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Castellated parapet and corner pinnacles to tower. Exposed rubble stone walls with ashlar quoins and projecting eaves course. Corner diagonal buttresses, limestone plinth to tower, having ashlar dressings to upper stage of tower and inscribed plaque. Pointed arch openings with raised limestone ashlar surrounds to south windows, sandstone tracery to east window, red brick reveals and arch to north window, c. 1890. Hood mouldings to door, tower, window and plaque. Timber boarded door with limestone step. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers and one mausoleum, c. 1840-1980. Gateway, built c. 1840, to north comprising pair of cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates. Rubble stone boundary wall with stone-on-edge coping.

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

At the centre of the townland of Knoppoge, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_168 (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.

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

Name

Knoppoge

Area

1,336,025 m² (133.6 ha, 330.14 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Aghadoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

870 people lived in 309 households in the Aghadoe electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crohane, Curragh, Dromin, Fossa, Gortaree, Lackabane

Placenames

Knoppoge 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.