Knockanacuig

130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanacuig, from 9 m² to 67,441 m² (6.74 ha, 16.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 144 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N3.2Electricity
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N5Solid Waste (Solid waste)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industrial, Enterprise, Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 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.

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission for demolition and removal of existing dressing-rooms building, storage containers and pitch floodlighting and construction of new dressing-rooms building, erection of new floodlighting, ball-stop poles and nets, installation of ball-wall, modular stand and mobile dug-outs, laying of new all-weather sand-based training pitch with perimeter path and fence, all with associated site works and services

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660275

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  Construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460995

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  Retention permission to retain a partially complete single storey extension to the rear and Permission to complete a new single storey extension to the side and all associated site works all at 124 Fairway Heights, Knocknacuig, Tralee, Co.Kerry V92 T8N1

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360238

• 22 Sept 2023N/a

  Invalid- Retention permission to retain a partially complete single storey extension to the rear and complete a new single storey extension to the side and all associated site works all at 124 Fairway Heights, Knocknacuig, Tralee, Co.Kerry V92 T8N1

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2360176

• 18 Apr 2023Conditional

  (A) PROVISION OF AN MV SUBSTATION BUILDING (C.60SQ.M, 4.6M HIGH) AND AN MV MODULAR STRUCTURE ( C. 12SQ.M, 3.4 M HIGH) BOTH BEING WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND WITHIN THE "CONSENTED BALLYENAGHTY SOLAR FARM" (B) A C. 2.3KM 10KV UNDERGROUND CABLE INSTALLATION BETWEEN THE " CONSENTED BALLYENAGHTY SOLAR FARM AND THE EXISTING ESB BALLYRICKARD 38KV SUBSTATION VIA THE KERRIES ROAD AND SPA ROAD AND (C) ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS. PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR A DURATION OF 10 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23425

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21228

• 22 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING A SINGLE STOREY LEAN TO EXTENSION TO THE REAR/SOUTH SIDE OF PROPERTY . PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SHED WITH ATTIC STORAGE ON THE SOUTH WEST CORNER OF SITE COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201011

• 4 Nov 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT 4 NO. DWELLING HOUSES CONSISTING OF 2 BLOCKS OF 3 BEDROOM SEMI DETACHED HOUSES, CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND SERVICES, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, ACCESS ROAD ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 4 homes · Kerry County Council, 191122

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOFED EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH EAST (REAR AND LEFT SIDE) OF DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING A BEDROOM AND ACCESSABLE SHOWER ROOM COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1971

• 21 Dec 2018Refused

  (A)CONSTRUCT EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING COTTAGE, DEMOLISH EXISTING ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, ELEVATION CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING COTTAGE (B) CONSTRUCT 2 NO. DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES AND (C) CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND SERVICES, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, ACCESS ROAD, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS .RETAIN EXISTING COTTAGE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181276

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  ALTER AND EXTEND THE HOUSE TO THE SIDE AND REAR AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18288

• 27 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18176

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 Knockanacuig.

Recorded monuments

• KE029-112 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  'This large enclosure is marked on the OS 1st and 2nd Edition maps in the townland of Knockanacuig, though the evidence for a third enclosing element would place the fort partially within the townland of Lohercannan also. Indeed the middle enclosing element form the boundary of the townland of Knockanacuig, the townland curving around to include this area of the monument. The fact that four modern townlands meet at the monument and the townland name, Knockanacuig – ‘the hill of the five’ may be of significance. The site is recorded in the Record of Monuments and Places as a ringfort (RMP KE029-112----) but this seems to only take the inner enclosure into account. The outer defensive elements clearly show this site to be a hillfort, though the inner enclosure may have been a later ringfort placed inside the earlier bi-vallate hillfort. The fort is situated on the summit of a low hill, which forms part of the ridge that extends from the western end of the Stacks Mountains to the northern side of Tralee Bay. Even though only 35m above OD, the site affords expansive and panoramic views in all directions, particularly of Tralee Bay, the northern side of the Dingle Peninsula, the Slieve Mish, the estuary of the River Lee and the western end of the Lee Valley. The site is traversed by the existing Ballyvalley-Knockanacuig road, 35m from its eastern extent and has been severely disturbed and partially destroyed by modern development.. A house constructed in the late 1970's sits inside the site, directly on the inner enclosure, while others are located on or abutting the outer elements of the site to south, west and north. The existence of these structures has greatly disturbed the site and makes an overall view of the defenses impossible. The OS representation of the site shows it to comprise an outer bank that curves inwards to join the bank of the inner enclosure at the north-east. The inner enclosure is partially destroyed and overall very disturbed by the house located on the southern half of the site. However, the bank can be discerned on the northern side, while the line of the bank is preserved in the field boundary to the west. The bank on the northern side is on average 9m wide, 0.45m high internally and 0.50m high externally. The internal diameter of the enclosure was approximately 35m E-W, while the total diameter is approximately 57m E-W. Dimensions on the N-S axis are impossible to assess due to the house and subsequent destruction of portion of the enclosure. An aerial photograph from 1967 shows the inner enclosure in an almost completely intact state and it appears to have a number of features inside its enclosing bank, which are no longer visible. The second bank is visible all round the site but is flattened and denuded at a number of points and is crowned by bushes and trees particularly to the south and west, where it functions as a field boundary. It is best preserved at the south-east, south-west and, particularly the west, were traces of an internal ditch 1.3m in width and 0.30m deep can be seen. On average the bank measures 9m in width, 0.6m high externally and 0.8m high internally. This second bank has overall dimensions of 141m N-S and 132m E-W. On the eastern side this second bank has a break of 25m in maximum width north - south. On the northern side of the is break the bank continues inwards to link into the bank of the internal enclosure, thus forming an inward spiraling entrance to the site. The distance from the eastern side of the existing, modern road to the outermost element of the site on this side is 37m, while the inward curve of the bank is cut by this road at two points. The semi-circular portion of this bank, which is on the eastern side of the road encloses an area measuring 75m N-S and 35m E-W. At the point where the inward curve of the outer bank meets the northern side of the inner enclosure, immediately inside the western boundary of the existing roadway, there is a small sub-circular enclosure. The southern side of this enclosure merges with the bank of the larger internal enclosure, to the south. The small enclosure measures 10m N-S and 12m E-W, internally, while the overall dimensions are 23m N-S and 20m E-W. These two main enclosing elements comprise the features represented on the OS maps and included in the Record of Monuments & Places. However, field survey recorded the presence of an outer element on the west - south-western side of the site. Here a massive, flattened earthen bank up to 17m in width and on average 0.35m in height runs around the hill and can be traced from the roadway to the north through, west to the rear of house plots fronting onto the roadway cutting the site from north to south. The bank appears to be constructed around a natural scarp or shoulder of the hill, equivalent to the 34m (100ft) contour. There are clear traces of an internal ditch measuring up to 1.6m in width and 0.30m in depth, while a slight undulation noted intermittently outside the bank may indicate an outer ditch also. This bank is not visible on the northern, southern or eastern sides of the site but this is undoubtedly due to the modern developments in these areas. The bank is up to 52m outside the middle bank element at the south-west and, if it continued around the monument gives an overall internal diameter of 240m E-W, enclosing an area of approximately 4.5 hectares. The middle enclosing element, as shown on OS maps gives the monument an internal area of 1.86 hectares. The site is described in the minute books of the County Kerry Field Club in the minutes for a meeting in November 1940. It is noted that the site is known as "Stroppenard" from the Irish Strapa an Aird – The High Cliff Steps/The High Cliff Path or Climb (An Brainse Logainimneacha, Roinn Gnóthaí, Pobáil, Tuaithe & Gaeltachta) or "John Huggard's Fort". The description of the site states that the centre of the fort is occupied by a large mound, the mound is encircled by a rampart of earth. Outside this is a level area encircled by a second rampart, "outside of this rampart was a deep fosse or ditch, which was in turn again surrounded by a raised embankment or rampart". Clearly, the description shows the site to have been triple banked with flat areas between the enclosing elements, the middle and outer banks having a ditch between. Local information suggests that as late as the mid 1950’s this inner feature was extant and consisted of a large mound surrounded by a bank and internal ditch, which contained a spring and periodically filled with water. The mound is described locally as having been over 5m in height and was leveled in 1958. The OS 1st edition representation of the inner feature would suggest the presence of a mound, as would the domed, platform like nature of the ground in this area today. This would suggest the site as a bivallate hillfort enclosing an earlier, probably early prehistoric burial mound, though given the lack of clear information on the diameter of the possible mound and the disturbed nature of this area of the site today this is difficult to confirm. Though recent excavations in Knockanacuig [Excavation No: 06E0154], undertaken in advance of a proposed road re-alignment etc., following long opposition, have shown that the middle bank and large ditch, noted in the Kerry County Field Club minutes, survive.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 6 July 2012

• KE029-112001 Ringfort - rath
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_106 (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 Knockanacuig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Knockanacuig · Cnocán an Chuig

Area

200,339 m² (20.03 ha, 49.5 acres)

Civil parish

Tralee, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Tralee Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tralee Rural electoral division: 19,032 people in 7,091 households; 60% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvelly, Carrigeendaniel, Farranstephen, Lohercannan, Tralee

Placenames

Knockanacuig 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.