Knockeenboy

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockeenboy, from 2,602 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 361,479 m² (36.15 ha, 89.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knockeenboy 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.

• 22 Jun 2022Refused

  This development is to comprise of seven number electricity generating wind turbines with a hub height of up to 70 metres and a rotor diameter of up to 71 metres, an electrical compound, substation building, a 70 metres high permanent meteorological mast, four number car parking spaces and associated site roads and site works. It is proposed to source stone from an on-site borrow pit,

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 22/416

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  A ten year planning permission for proposed development consisting of a 20 kilovolt (kV) electrical powerline grid connection, approximately 10,117 metres in overall length (made up of approximately 9,983 metres of underground cable and approximately 134 metres of Over Head Line with three wooden support single poles), connecting the approved electrical substation at Knockeenboy Wind Farm (Planning Register Reference No. 11/00059 & An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL88.240070) to the existing Dunmanway 110kV ESB Networks substation at Ballyhalwick; together with all ancillary works and apparatus. The grid connection will be developed from the approved substation through the townlands of Knockeenboy, Kilronane West, Kilronane East, Moreagh, Nedinagh West, Acres and Ballyhalwick townlands. The proposed development is located to the east, south and southwest of Dunmanway, Co. Cork. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/902

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  Construction of a domestic garage and permission for retention of relocated site entrance from that as granted under Pl. Reg. Ref. No. 05/5427

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/400

• 14 Jun 2018Incompleted application

  To construct a domestic garage and for permission for retention of relocated site entrance from that as granted under Pl Reg. 05/5427

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/337

• 7 Apr 2016Conditional

  Retention for domestic garage and secondary site entrance and permission for proposed wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/213

• 10 Feb 2016Incompleted application

  Permission for retention for domestic garage re-positioned from that previously permitted and permission for proposed wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/74

• 28 Apr 2014Conditional

  Permission to construct extension to dwelling and to make minor alterations to dwelling and permission to replace septic tank with septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/272

• 15 Feb 2011Conditional

  Demolish outbuilding and permission to construct rear extension to dwelling and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/73

• 8 Feb 2011Conditional

  Development is to comprise of seven (7) electricity generating wind turbines with a hub height of up to 70 metres and a rotor diameter of up to 71 metres, a 70m high permanent meteorological mast, an Electrical Compound, Sub-Station Building, Four Car Parking Spaces, Associated Site Roads and Site Works. It is proposed to source stone from an on site borrow pit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/59

• 6 Dec 2007Conditional

  Dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3033

• 28 Jul 2005Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5427

• 16 May 2005Conditional

  Construction of silage slab, slurry store and conversion of covered silage pit into cubicle house incorporating 2 no. slatted tanks and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3283

• 22 Mar 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1902

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 Knockeenboy.

Recorded monuments

• CO120-015001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on lower E slope of Kealrootla river valley. Circular area (33m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1m) with external fosse (D 0.6m) E->SSW. Break (Wt 4m) in bank to ENE. Slight scarp crosses interior on E-W axis. Souterrain (CO120-015002-) in adjoining field to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO120-015002 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture c. 40m SE ringfort (CO120-015001-). According to local information site of souterrain; subsequently backfilled. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockeenboy, 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 Knockeenboy.

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

Name

Knockeenboy · An Cnoicín Buí

Area

1,065,988 m² (106.6 ha, 263.41 acres)

Civil parish

Fanlobbus, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Dunmanway South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,557 people lived in 587 households in the Dunmanway South electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappadineen, Cashloura, Kilronane West, Maulanimirish, Shean

Placenames

Knockeenboy 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.