Derreen
Derreen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is An Doirín.
- Area
- 87.8 ha
- 217 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 17,686 m² (1.77 ha, 4.37 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 20 m² to 320,235 m² (32.02 ha, 79.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derreen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Aug 2026Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a slatted unit and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 26218
10 Dec 2023Conditional
of an extension to the front of existing dwelling house
Retention · Clare County Council, 2360534
29 Mar 2023Conditional
for the following (a) to construct an extension to the rear of an existing derelict dwelling house (b) to carry out alterations to the existing dwelling and (c) upgrade the existing sewage treatment system, along with ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23194
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derreen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derreen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derreen, about 1 in 20 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 Derreen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Derreen · An Doirín
- Area
- 878,186 m² (87.82 ha, 217 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Mullagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 194 people lived in 84 households in the Mullagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowlagan, Cloghaunnatinny, Moyglass Beg, Moyglass More
- Placenames
- Derreen 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.