Knockleigh
Knockleigh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmonoge, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Cnoc Liath.
Parcel 2292926
- Area
- 323,033 m² (32.3 ha, 79.82 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,053 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Knockleigh
Planning applications on this parcel
22 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission for construction of a two-storey new dwelling house with one-storey extension to the west elevation and one-storey front porch to the south elevation, new proposed gate to existing vehicular entrance, a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5390
19 Jun 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a two storey new dwelling house with one storey extension to the west elevation and one storey front porch to the south elevation, new proposed gate to existing vehicular entrance, a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5150
10 Feb 2023Conditional
To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4222
29 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of overground steel slurry storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4569
26 Jul 2006Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9245
7 Apr 2006Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6209
21 Mar 2006Conditional
Domestic garage with first floor hobby room
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5724
14 Feb 2006Incompleted application
Detached domestic garage with hobby room on first floor
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4774
5 Jan 2006Incompleted application
Domestic garage with first floor hobby room
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4035
15 Dec 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and biological treatment plant
Approval · Cork County Council, 04/9203
25 Nov 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Approval · Cork County Council, 04/8668
28 Jul 2003Refused
Construction of two storey dwelling with septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3756
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 153.5 ha
- 379 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 3,261 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 36
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockleigh, from 179 m² to 429,970 m² (43 ha, 106.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Knockleigh 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
18 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0388
26 Sept 2025Application withdrawn
Permission for 1) Construction of a poultry house, a feed bin, collection tanks, 2) Permission to Retain the existing mobile home and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6040
4 Jul 2025Application invalid
Construction of a poultry house, feed bin, collection tanks and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5317
22 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission for construction of a two-storey new dwelling house with one-storey extension to the west elevation and one-storey front porch to the south elevation, new proposed gate to existing vehicular entrance, a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5390
19 Jun 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a two storey new dwelling house with one storey extension to the west elevation and one storey front porch to the south elevation, new proposed gate to existing vehicular entrance, a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5150
10 Feb 2023Conditional
To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4222
8 Oct 2019Unconditional
The construction of a single storey conservatory extension to an existing single storey dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6428
11 Nov 2015Conditional
Dwelling house, detached domestic garage, and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6537
3 Jan 2014Conditional
Remove existing septic tank, construct new sewage system to serve existing dwelling and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4008
3 Jan 2014Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4005
30 Oct 2013Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6063
2 Oct 2013Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5899
30 Mar 2012Conditional
Construction of a single storey dwelling and detached garage, including a waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4620
4 Apr 2011Conditional
Single storey extension (sunroom) to side of existing dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4689
22 Mar 2011Refused
Two storey dwellinghouse, attached domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4567
1 Apr 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse with attached garage, proprietary aeration unit and soil polishing filter, construction of new site entrance & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4997
13 Mar 2009Conditional
Dwelling house & treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4796
27 Feb 2009Incompleted application
Dwelling house & treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4606
1 May 2008Conditional
Split-level dwellinghouse and sewage treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6458
10 Dec 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12976
2 May 2007Conditional
Alterations, garage conversion, ground and first floor extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7465
29 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of overground steel slurry storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4569
4 Aug 2006Withdrawn
Alterations, garage conversion, ground and first floor extension to single storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9518
26 Jul 2006Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9245
29 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Extension to dwelling and change of use from garage to living accommodation and alterations to elevations
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8488
The 25 most recent of 36 applications.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockleigh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockleigh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockleigh.
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 Knockleigh, 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 Knockleigh.
- 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 Knockleigh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockleigh · An Cnoc Liath
- Area
- 1,534,564 m² (153.46 ha, 379.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmonoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Kilmonoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,337 people lived in 416 households in the Kilmonoge electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnaboha, Ballingeemanigbeg, Curra, Knocknahowla Beg, Knocknahowla More, Mountlong, Ringnanean, Tonabuska
- Placenames
- Knockleigh 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.