Derreen

108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 38 m² to 75,314 m² (7.53 ha, 18.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 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.

• 11 Feb 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of a) retention of dwelling house on site of former dwelling and b) permission to complete construction and to install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660064

• 17 Sept 2025N/a

  for development which will consist of a) Retention of replacement dwelling house and b) Permission to complete construction and to install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560567

• 3 Jun 2025Conditional

  for revised roof design to extension granted Planning Permission under ref. 2460185

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560323

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of: (a) Demolish 2no. existing single-storey domestic shed units, (b) construct a new single-storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling consisting of 2no. en-suite bedrooms, utility room and internal courtyard, (d) minor internal layout and elevational changes to existing dwelling, (e) create new outdoor patio area with sunken cold water plunge pool and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560285

• 7 Mar 2025Conditional

  for the following: a) to create accommodation space within the first floor area, to change the roof finish from slate to zinc on the single storey side extension and to add additional rooflights to the dwelling house from what was granted under P22/333; b) to install a new proprietary wastewater system along with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560112

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing front porch and construct 1. New larger front entrance porch. 2. Front dormer window structure and two storey rear extension to the existing dwelling. 3. Increase size of upper floor existing window on southwest gable and 2 no front ground floor windows. 4. Conversion of original separate Garage including an extension linking main house and new front two storey extension / dormer window to side of ex. pitched roof. 5. Extensive internal and external modifications and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560084

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  for an extension to an existing house and associated site works.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2460185

• 29 May 2023Conditional

  to demolish an existing block outbuilding, refurbish and extend an existing cottage, convert part of existing outbuilding for residential use, and construct an on site waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360178

• 29 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, road entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22767

• 12 May 2022Conditional

  for the demolition of the existing barn structure and the construction of a replacement barn-like structure, the consolidation of two site entrances to one single site entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22432

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  for to construct a sunroom extension and associated site works at existing house

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22333

• 12 Jul 2021N/a

  for the construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling house including internal modifications together with all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21726

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling house including internal modifications together with all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21640

• 4 Nov 2020Conditional

  to RETAIN the sunroom on the dwelling house and all associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 20816

• 28 Nov 2019N/a

  the development will consist of a) the provision of 6 No. glamping pods, b) renovation of existing shed to office/reception and c) the installation of a septic tank, reed bed and sand polishing filter together with ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19936

• 25 May 2017Conditional

  the follwoing works, (A) Construct single storey extension to dwelling, (B) Add dormer windows to existing front elevation, & (C) Construct garage, all with associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 17403

• 15 May 2017Conditional

  to RETAIN landscaping works including altering garden levels

  Retention · Clare County Council, 17362

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 Derreen.

Recorded monuments

• CL014-020 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in pasture, offering wide views. Hachured and named ‘Ardkill Children’s Burial Ground’ on first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular children’s burial ground (int. diam. 16m) is defined by a modern stone wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5-2m) with vertical coping. There is a gate and stile at the SSE. Eight graves are visible in the grass-covered interior of the burial ground, marked by horizontal graveslabs. Another grave is visible in outline, just W of the centre where there is a cut-stone cross (H 1.5m) on a circular plinth incorporating steps on the E side. This monument has been said to mark the grave of a 12 year-old daughter of local landlord Cornelius O’Brien (1782-1857). There are also two modern headstones dated 1965 and 1976. In the E of the burial ground are four roughly parallel E-W running grass-covered collapsed walls. The SW quadrant has been levelled and cleared.   Compiled by: Gearoid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 6-10-2015

Architectural heritage

• O'Brien's Monument, monument, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding monument, designed 1855; built 1858-9, on a square plan comprising urn-topped limestone ashlar fluted Greek Doric column on margined tooled limestone ashlar panelled pedestal on drag edged cut-limestone plinth. Set on an elevated corner site. NOTE: Designed by John Petty (d. 1880) of Ennis (Clare Journal 15th November 1855) and 'ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO CORNELIUS O BRIEN [1782-1857] THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS COUNTY IN PARLIAMENT FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS AS A LASTING RECORD OF HIS PUBLIC CONDUCT AND PRIVATE WORTH'. The fluted Greek Doric column of silver-grey Liscannor limestone was originally to feature a life-size statue of O'Brien in the manner of the O'Connell Monument (1859-63) in Ennis (see 20000001) but it was ultimately crowned by a bulbous funerary urn.

• Saint Bridget's National School, school, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached H-plan five-bay single-storey national school, dated 1845, comprising three recessed central bays with veranda and gablet, flanked by gabled and canted end bays. Now in use as pair of houses with dormer attic and rear porch additions. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and decorative bargeboards. Rendered walls with label mouldings over openings and inset plaques over door openings. Cast-iron columns to veranda. Clock set in brick surround to gable. Timber and uPVC windows with stone sills. Cut-limestone block-and-start chamfered doorcase with timber matchboard door. Octagonal cut-stone gate piers and iron gate to site set in painted stone wall.

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 Derreen, 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 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.

No address of the register names Derreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Derreen · An Doirín

Area

742,699 m² (74.27 ha, 183.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrehy, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Ballysteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 163 households in the Ballysteen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnacraa, Ballymaclinaun, Ballysteen, Beaghy, Kineilty, Slievenageeragh

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.