Dernakesh

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dernakesh, from 973 m² to 149,813 m² (14.98 ha, 37.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Dernakesh 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.

• 28 Jul 2021Conditional

  to retain existing foundations; and PERMISSION for completion of a dormer style replacement dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance, temporary modular home and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21472

• 12 Jun 2020Conditional

  to carry out works to existing dwelling: 1. Construct single storey bedroom extension, 2. Construct storey and half extension, 3. Construct attached domestic garage, and carry out associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20216

• 27 Mar 2019Conditional

  for development of a single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance, entrance walls and piers, together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19118

• 3 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half style dwelling house and detached domestic garage, installation of mechanical effluent treatment system, raised/mounded percolation area, construct new domestic entrance and together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18140

• 12 Sept 2017Refused

  to construct a two storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage, installation of mechanical effluent treatment system, raised/mounded percolation area, construct new domestic entrance & together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17399

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 Dernakesh.

Recorded monuments

• CV022-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised oval area (int. dims. c. 38m WNW-ESE; 26.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse which has been infilled from NNW-N-ESE. Bank has been considerably disturbed by modern digging and modified and incorporated into field boundary from N-NE-E. Original entrance is at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Dernakesh Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic-Revival gable-fronted church, built 1834, with three-bay nave, entrance porch to front gable, lean-to vestry to south-east, shallow chancel to south-east gable. Pitched slate roof with replacement ridge tiles, barges on gables on plain kneelers, cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut-stone short stack on south-east gable of nave. Ashlar bellcote to north-west gable with chamfered corners, profiled cornice with elongated octagonal cap and tapering pinnacle. Plain rendered walls over a stone plinth course, plinth stepped to main gable. Main gable framed by clasping ashlar buttresses on plinth course, square-profile changes to octagonal-profile at two-third height, annulus at gable height, octagonal-profile pinnacles capped by pointed spirelet. Lancet window above porch and to nave sides with sloping sills and cut-stone jambs, windows have paired lights with diamond pattern panes and marigold pattern in spandrel. Ventilators to gables with simple stone frames. Advanced porch having similarly treated clasping buttresses with castellated parapet. Pointed arch door opening with cut-stone surround, timber-sheeted two-leaf door with blind overlight, approached by stone steps. Wide pointed arch chancel window with three lights, diamond paned and marigold pattern to head. Interior with cast-iron framed roof trusses with circle motif, recent infill between common rafters. Pointed relieving arch to gables with ventilation roundels above, lancet windows in splayed embrasures having roll moulding to arris and steeply sloping timber sills with ventilation flaps. Timber wainscoting below windows. Double-leaf inner door and deep square-headed arch through entrance gable. Shallow chancel with chamfered chancel arch, plain glass in three-light east window, plain timber reredos. Bench seating c.1870 on raised timber floor, middle aisle of nave having flagged floor with cast-iron metal grating running lengthways. Cast-iron pot-bellied stove with flue to centre of aisle. Freestanding pulpit with pinnacled buttress detail and timber plinth frame, reader’s desk, and carved harmonium. Partial timber box-pew retained at west end. Surrounding graveyard. Roughly dressed stone boundary wall with square-profile piers flanking historic forged double-leaf metal gates.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dernakesh.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Dernakesh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Dernakesh · Doire na Ceise

Area

1,024,233 m² (102.42 ha, 253.09 acres)

Civil parish

Drumgoon, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Corraneary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corraneary electoral division: 448 people in 169 households; 93% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonraw, Corragarry, Cran, Killatee, Kilnacrew, Latully, Ralaghan

Placenames

Dernakesh 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.