Derrygeeha
Derrygeeha is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfiddane, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Doire Gaoithe.
- Area
- 176.8 ha
- 437 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 15,913 m² (1.59 ha, 3.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygeeha, from 408 m² to 321,698 m² (32.17 ha, 79.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Derrygeeha 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
16 Jul 2026N/a
to raise existing lands via the deposit of inert non-hazardous waste materials such as soil, gravel, stone, masonry blocks etc. along with all associated ancillary works at an existing site
Permission · Clare County Council, 2660465
18 Nov 2025Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, granny flat and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560704
11 Aug 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, car port, entrance, effluent treatment system including all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22727
14 Jul 2022Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22642
17 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211213
29 Mar 2019Conditional
to construct a slatted unit with an underground slurry storage tank for housing livestock on the farm
Permission · Clare County Council, 19236
14 Mar 2019Conditional
for development of a private garage with solid fuel storage area and associated ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19185
30 Oct 2018Conditional
to RETAIN the construction of agricultural buildings along with all ancillary site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 18862
30 Oct 2018Conditional
to RETAIN extension and alterations to the existing dwelling house along with all ancillary site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 18863
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrygeeha Lough 000050
Recorded monuments
- CL058-056 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 Derrygeeha.
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 Derrygeeha, 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 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 Derrygeeha.
- 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 Derrygeeha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Derrygeeha · Doire Gaoithe
- Area
- 1,768,455 m² (176.85 ha, 436.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfiddane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Coolmeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 266 people lived in 91 households in the Coolmeen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohyodaun, Coolmeen, Derrynalecka, Derryshaan, Kilmurry East, Prospect
- Placenames
- Derrygeeha 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.