Knock

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knock, from 276 m² to 140,489 m² (14.05 ha, 34.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Jun 2023Conditional

  Planning permission sought for change of design of dwellinghouse and domestic garage (previously granted under Pl Reg No; 10/615, 15/607, 16/17, 22/51 and extended under Pl Reg. No. 20/341)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/312

• 1 Feb 2022Conditional

  Permission sought for change of design of dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage (previously granted under Pl Reg No; 10/615, 15/607, 16/17 and extended under Pl Reg No: 20/341)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/51

• 1 Jul 2020Unconditional

  Construction of dwelling house and construction of detached domestic garage

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/341

• 6 Mar 2020Withdrawn

  Dwelling house and detached garage

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/121

• 30 Nov 2018Conditional

  Planning permission for (a) alterations & extensions to an existing dwellinghouse, to include the demolition of an attached garage & utility room (b) demolition of a detached annexe and the construction of a detached ancillary outbuilding to include a garage and a games room (c) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/731

• 11 Nov 2016Conditional

  Permission for retention and completion of dwellinghouse commenced on foot of planning reg ref. 05/5339 and for retention of temporary dwelling unit and storage shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/690

• 15 Jan 2016Conditional

  Permission for change of plan of previously approved proposed dwelling house (planning references 15/607 and 10/615) and construction of detached domestic garage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/17

• 28 Oct 2015Unconditional

  Construction of dwelling house and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/607

• 3 Sept 2010Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/615

• 20 Aug 2010Incompleted application

  Construction of dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/578

• 5 Aug 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/879

• 20 Jul 2009Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/814

• 14 Dec 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3116

• 5 Jan 2006Conditional

  Construction of Dwelling House incorporating existing Tower & single storey Annex at Leamcon Tower

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5

• 6 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9002

• 25 Jul 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5339

• 6 May 2003Conditional

  Dwelling

  Approval · Cork County Council, 03/2115

• 18 Oct 2000Conditional

  Construction of single storey residential extension to existing single storey annex at Leamcon Tower

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6262

• 23 Jun 2000Refused

  Dwellinghouse with garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/3824

• 23 Dec 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/7277

• 27 Aug 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4708

• 6 Aug 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Approval · Cork County Council, 99/4348

• 19 Mar 1998Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 98/1035

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 Knock.

Recorded monuments

• CO148-012 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated close to the summit of a wide low hill c. 1.3km NW of the coastline at its closest point (OD c. 110.5m). Located on flat ground the slopes gently away from the site in all directions. A large modern bungalow with a courtyard-plan has been constructed adjoining the original structure to the W and NW, and the former signal station\tower is now partially in use as a dwelling. The surrounding area consists of enclosed pasture and enclosed rough pastureland defined by generally linear field boundaries. The adjacent stations in the signal tower\station chain are found at Brow Head (CO152-002----), located c. 12.55kms to the WSW, which survives to its full height, and at Glen East\Gleann Oirtheach (CO153-022002-), located c. 12kms to the SE to the E side of Clear Island\Cléire, which also survives to its full original height. This signal station\tower at Knock is located c. 1.2kms NNE of a battery (CO148-026002-) at Leamcon, and c. ENE of a church (148-007003-) set in a circular enclosure (CO148-007001-) at Cove to the E side of Toormore Bay. An early-nineteenth-century (c. 1804-5) originally two-storey over partial raised basement square-plan signal station\tower (ext. dims. c. 5.85m N-S x c. 5.85m E-W), built with roughly coursed rubble stone masonry. The walls of the signal tower face, N, E, S, and W. The original form of the structure is still discernible but it has been raised in height and extensively altered to accommodate modern use as a domestic dwelling. The exterior is now cement rendered but was originally lime rendered with weather-slating. The original square-headed doorway is located to the S elevation at first floor level; this would have been originally accessed via a retractable ladder. The doorway has been altered and has modern fittings. Doorway now served by a modern flight of concrete steps giving access to a modern rubble stone balcony\bartizan supported on modern rubble stone corbels. The doorway is protected by a rectangular-plan rubble stone machicolation over supported on three squared rubble stone corbels. This machicolation has been increased in height and now has a modern glazed screen over. There are rubble stone bartizans to the NE and NW corners supported on rubble stone corbels; these bartizans have been increased in height and now also have modern glazed screens\windows over. The E and W elevation features the original pairs of square-headed window openings at ground and first floor levels, which now contain modern fittings. A modern square-headed window opening has been added at semi-basement level to the E elevation and to the centre of the W elevation above openings at first floor level that extends into the original parapet level of the original structure. Modern addition attached to the W, N and NW. Kerrigan established that the signal mast had been erected and the signal tower completed by 1805 (Kerrigan 1995, 277). Hamilton’s 1806 map shows the signal tower located in a narrow rectangular enclosure that splays outwards to the S end (Kerrigan 2003, 37). The Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2, depicts the signal tower set within a narrow sub-rectangular enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m N-S x c. 23m E-W) that was surrounded by a larger square-plan enclosure (ext. dims c. 90m N-S x 88m E-W). A small rectangular building is depicted to the E of the signal station\tower at this time. The Ordnance Survey second ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1897-1904, shows that the inner enclosure and the small rectangular building had been removed by this time. The boundaries of the garden surrounding the modern dwelling appear to largely follow the line of the large square enclosure as depicted on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 21/09/22

Architectural heritage

• Signal Tower 32, signal tower, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding square-plan two-bay four-stage former signal tower, built 1805, with recent extensions (north-west) and renovations. Now in use as domestic house. Flat roof. Smooth rendered walls with rubble stone bartizans (north-east and south-west elevations). Square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and stone sills. Recent square-headed timber windows to bartizans. Square-headed door opening to first-stage with recent timber glazed door, recessed keystone and recent flight of steps.

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 Knock, 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 Knock.

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

Name

Knock · An Cnoc

Area

547,672 m² (54.77 ha, 135.33 acres)

Civil parish

Skull, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Lowertown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

244 people lived in 102 households in the Lowertown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arderrawinny, Balteen, Caheravirane, Drinane, Lowertown

Placenames

Knock 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.