Derreen
Derreen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurry (Killadysert Ra), barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is An Doirín.
- Area
- 151.9 ha
- 375 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 4,207 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 246 m² to 138,875 m² (13.89 ha, 34.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
19 Feb 2026Conditional
for the change of use of a former schoolhouse - currently designated as residential - to a short term let facility
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660087
5 Dec 2024Conditional
of minor elevational alterations and planning PERMISSION to erect additional walling to the front of the dwelling and erect entrance gates to the front of the property along with all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460617
22 Mar 2022Conditional
the development will consist of the change of use from school to domestic dwelling, with replacement doors and windows and new windows and door where shown
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22246
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
- CL058-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
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
- 1,519,397 m² (151.94 ha, 375.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmurry (Killadysert Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Tullycreen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 155 people lived in 55 households in the Tullycreen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brisla East, Clooncullin, Knockaderreen, Lack West, Lissanair, Tullagower, Tullycreen Upper
- 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.