Knockadroleen
Knockadroleen is a townland in the civil parish of Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Dreoilín.
Parcel 2301818
- Area
- 1,143 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 139 m².
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
- Townland
- Knockadroleen
Planning applications on this parcel
21 Jan 2004Conditional
Alterations, ground floor extension and dormer extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/245
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 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1288 (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.
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
- 17.4 ha
- 43 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 1,134 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockadroleen, from 116 m² to 150,435 m² (15.04 ha, 37.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 May 2026Grant with conditions
Erect a 21 metre high monopole telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes, and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1371
10 Aug 2023Withdrawn
Permission for the construction of extensions to front and side of existing dwelling (change of plan to that permitted by Pl.Reg.No. 20/5232).
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5633
5 Jul 2023Incompleted application
Change of plan from that previously granted under Pl.Reg.No. 20/5232 to include the provision of a bay window on the front elevation and enlargement of front porch.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5382
22 Feb 2021Conditional
(1) Renovation and elevational changes to existing dressing room building and (2) construction of extension to dressing room building incorporating shower areas, extension to gym and store.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4435
18 Jun 2020Conditional permission
1) Construct porch to front of existing dwelling, 2) construct sunroom and office extension to the side of existing dwelling and 3) construct lean-to extension with open sides to the front of existing shed and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5232
10 Nov 2009Conditional
Construction of hurling alley with an all weather surface and lighting, all weather training pitch, security fencing, and installation of lighting to the existing pitch
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7598
22 Apr 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2621
1 Jun 2004Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3926
21 Jan 2004Conditional
Alterations, ground floor extension and dormer extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/245
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockadroleen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockadroleen.
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 Knockadroleen, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1288 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockadroleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockadroleen · Cnoc an Dreoilín
- Area
- 174,071 m² (17.41 ha, 43.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcormack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Rathcormack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,643 people lived in 884 households in the Rathcormack electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 65% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrowney Lower, Bridgeland West, Dromruagh, Kilshannig Lower, Lisnagar Demesne
- Placenames
- Knockadroleen 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.