Knockgorm
Knockgorm is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcorney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Cnoc Gorm.
Parcel 2327230
- Area
- 4,546 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 204 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
- Knockgorm
Planning applications on this parcel
12 Jun 2015Conditional
Retention of extensions to dwellinghouse
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5240
22 May 2015Incompleted application
Retention of one fully serviced single storey dwelling with wastewater treatment unit to that granted under planning permission no's. (01/2906 & 98/1064).
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5069
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
- 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.
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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
- 34.5 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,948 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockgorm, from 899 m² to 283,075 m² (28.31 ha, 69.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Jun 2015Conditional
Retention of extensions to dwellinghouse
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5240
22 May 2015Incompleted application
Retention of one fully serviced single storey dwelling with wastewater treatment unit to that granted under planning permission no's. (01/2906 & 98/1064).
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5069
9 Sept 2014Conditional
Construct a split level 2-storey extension to the rear of exsiting dwellinghouse including minor alterations to side and rear elevations of existing house to accommodate the extension, garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5910
15 Aug 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted house with underground tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9776
11 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/762
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 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knockgorm, 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 moderately low, low.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockgorm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Knockgorm · An Cnoc Gorm
- Area
- 344,894 m² (34.49 ha, 85.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcorney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Kilcorney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 333 people lived in 128 households in the Kilcorney electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glenleigh, Horsemount North, Kilcorney, Lissacapia
- 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.