Knockgorm

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockgorm, from 472 m² to 150,267 m² (15.03 ha, 37.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockgorm 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.

• 9 Feb 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission for demolition of existing derelict dwelling and the construction of a new replacement dwelling, waste water treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0270

• 18 Dec 2024Unconditional

  Permission for alterations and extensions to the existing dwelling consisting of: the construction of a new single storey boiler house/extension to the side of existing dwelling, elevational alterations to existing dwelling including amendments to existing doors and windows, the removal of three number pitche.d roof dormer windows to the rear and the replacement with two number flat roof dormers, new external wall insulation to selected elevations, a new pergola to single storey front northern elevation, the addition of solar panels and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6442

• 22 Apr 2016Unconditional

  Construction of an external pergola to the front of our existing house, a car port roof between existing house and garage and the erection of photovoltaic cells along the rear of existing garage, proposed car port and existing house. – Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 11/5171

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/4909

• 5 Dec 2013Conditional

  Construction of cattle house with 2 no. slatted slurry tanks, soiled water tank, walled silo, 2 no. dry yards, cattle holding yard with cattle crush and slatted slurry tank, milking parlour, dairy, plant room, feed storage bin, hard surfaced area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6308

• 24 Apr 2012Conditional

  Construction of a cattle slatted house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4850

• 30 May 2011Conditional

  Construction of an external pergola to the front of our existing house, a car port roof between existing house and garage and the erection of photovoltaic cells along the rear of existing garage, proposed car port and existing house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5171

• 23 Nov 2006Conditional

  Cubicle house extension, new open slurry storage tank, silo walls, silage apron, scrapers, indoor feeding area, replacement of roof cladding to existing sheds and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12599

• 5 Oct 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7255

• 12 Sept 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6560

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 Knockgorm.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockgorm.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockgorm, 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 Knockgorm.

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 Knockgorm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Knockgorm · An Cnoc Gorm

Area

430,206 m² (43.02 ha, 106.31 acres)

Civil parish

Kilroan, and its townlands

Barony

Courceys

Electoral division

Ballymackean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 138 households in the Ballymackean electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacaw, Ballynabooly, Ballynidon, Courtaparteen, Dooneen Upper, Killowny, Oldcourt

Placenames

Knockgorm 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.