Knockataggart

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockataggart, from 73 m² to 91,606 m² (9.16 ha, 22.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 12 Sept 2008Conditional

  Erection of domestic garage and of extension to side of dwellinghouse, conversion of attic to living accommodation incorporating 3no. dormer windows on front elevation

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1678

• 17 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Erect domestic garage and extension to side of dwellinghouse, conversion of attic to living accommodation incorporating 3no. dormer windows on front elevation

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1339

• 23 Jul 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5702

• 16 Jun 2004Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4376

• 4 Mar 1998Conditional

  Dwelling

  Approval · Cork County Council, 98/779

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 Knockataggart.

Recorded monuments

• CO141-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a hillock in pasture. Sub-circular area (27m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m) forming townland boundaries W->SE; levelled bank (H 0.2m) SE->W. Shallow external fosse (D c. 0.35m) to W. 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

• CO150-011 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture on N-facing slope. Marked 'Kiel' on OS 6-inch map (1842). Rectangular area (6.6m NE-SW; 3.1m SE-NW) cut into hillside on SE side; defined by scarp (H 0.75m) on NW side; other 2 sides defined by overgrowth. One burial marker noted. 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 Knockataggart.

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 Knockataggart, 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 high, 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 Knockataggart.

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

Name

Knockataggart · Cnoc an tSagairt

Area

541,536 m² (54.15 ha, 133.82 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Skibbereen Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,400 people lived in 484 households in the Skibbereen Rural electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curravally, Gortshanecrone, Lahernathee, Licknavar, Munnig North

Placenames

Knockataggart 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.