Knocksaharn

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocksaharn, from 183 m² to 434,025 m² (43.4 ha, 107.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Knocksaharn 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.

• 16 May 2025Refused

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4922

• 26 Jul 2024Refused

  Permission to construct a joinery workshop building incorporating workshop area, timber storage area, office, staff facilities, storage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5435

• 26 Sept 2018Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6536

• 22 Nov 2013Conditional

  Teach nua le coras chóireala d’fhuíolluisce a thógáilt

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6219

• 11 Jul 2013Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house, domestic garage and new entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5336

• 17 Dec 2007Conditional

  Construction of conservatory extension to dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13114

• 1 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5564

• 15 Sept 2004Conditional

  Dwelling and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6988

• 4 Mar 2003Conditional

  Retention of domestic garage & revised site layout for dwelling, entrance & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/903

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 Knocksaharn.

Recorded monuments

• CO069-033 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842, 1904 and 1946 OS 6-inch maps. Location marked on 1904 OS 6-inch map by Munster Archaeological Survey (UCC). In level pasture, on S side of Cloneera Wood. Removed; no visible surface trace. Conlon (1918, 125) noted three stones here in marshy ground, two standing and one prostrate. A is 2 feet high, 1 foot 6 inches broad, 11 inches thick. B is 3 feet 9 inches hight, 2 feet 8 inches broad, 11 inches thick, 4 feet 10 inches from A. C (prostrate); is 5 feet 8 inches long, 3 feet 5 inches broad, 2 feet 4 inches thick, 4 feet 1 inch from B'. He suggested that there may have been a stone circle here as there were several other stones lying around. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO069-034 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Stone (H 2.05m; 1.75m x 1m) is irregular in plan, leaning to NE; long axis NW-SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO069-035 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Shown on 1940 OS 6-inch map as single standing stone incorporated into E-W field fence. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Field fence and stone removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO069-068 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Low oval mound of burnt material (12m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.4m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO069-092 Enclosure
  Description

  Described by Colm Chambers as 'circular, 5 metres in diameter internally and 12 metres externally. The floor of the enclosure is raised 50cm or more above the external ground level. The bank is of stone and some earth and its maximum height is 1.7 metres, to the NE. There does not appear to be an entrance. There is possibly the remains of an external fosse'.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knocksaharn, 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 Knocksaharn.

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

Name

Knocksaharn · Cnoc Sathairn

Area

1,811,726 m² (181.17 ha, 447.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamartery, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Candroma, the unit of the census

Census 2022

333 people lived in 123 households in the Candroma electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Candroma, Cloheena, Cools, Derrintogher, Gortanaddan, Kilmakaroge, Lisboy Beg

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Knocksaharn 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.