Dernagree

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dernagree, from 118 m² to 270,511 m² (27.05 ha, 66.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Dernagree 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.

• 1 Dec 2020Conditional

  To erect 2 No. information boards/signs at proposed centenary memorial monument at a site within the church car park.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6685

• 30 Oct 2020Withdrawn

  To erect 2 no. information boards/signs at proposed centenary memorial monument at a site within the church car park.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6382

• 16 Mar 2020Conditional

  To construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by septic tank and percolation area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4557

• 3 Apr 2019Conditional

  Domestic garage.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4826

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  To construct overground prefabricated steel slurry storage tank (permastore).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6340

• 3 Aug 2005Withdrawn

  Construction of bungalow

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/5520

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 Dernagree.

Recorded monuments

• CO030-152 Church
  Description

  In Dernagree. Rectangular church (long axis NE-SW); walls rendered with raised quoins. Lit by pointed windows with cut-limestone surrounds. Ornate SW entrance gable: central breakfront of ashlar limestone, topped with bellcote; central ogee-headed door ope with large ogee-headed window overhead, pointed niches on either side of door and window. Inscribed stone on wall with date '1838'; described by Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 509) as recently rebuilt. Similar in design to Dromagh church (14740), stone sculptures attributed to Charles O'Connell (Mould 1991, 141). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Church of the Presentation of Our Lady, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, dated 1838, facing south-west, having five-bay nave with gabled porch to south-west end of south-east elevation and lower two-bay sacristy recessed to north-east end, and with flat-roof confessional projecting from north-west side of nave. Pitched artificial slate roofs having recent wrought-iron cross finial to gable-front. Pitched slate roof to south porch having carved limestone cross finial. Painted rendered walls having limestone quoins and painted rendered plinth course. Limestone ashlar buttresses to outer corners of porch. Limestone ashlar breakfront added to gable-front, flanked by similar stonework to part of gable to each side, having decorative limestone corbel table detailing to upper part, topped with moulded cornice. Date plaque to breakfront, over doorway. Pointed arch window opening to upper breakfront with chamfered surround, ogee hood-moulding and traceried triple-light window, with carved angel between hood-moulding and window proper, and having carved chevron detail to sill course. Window is flanked by round-headed niches. Pointed arch window openings to nave having chamfered limestone surrounds and stained glass. Sacristy has pointed arched window openings with painted rendered sills and stained glass. Pointed Order arch entrance doorway to breakfront having Corinthian-style engaged columns on hexagonal plinths, outer arch having foliate motifs, middle having carved beading and inner having rosette and fern frond details, all under ogee hood-moulding, having chalice motif between hood-moulding and Order arch. Fern frond escutcheons to outer side of hood-moulding. Replacement timber battened double-leaf door to entrance. Entrance doorway is flanked by blind pointed arch doorways. Pointed arch door opening to porch, having chamfered limestone surround and replacement timber battened double-leaf door approached by recent concrete steps and ramp with railings. Square-headed door opening to sacristy with pointed arched rendered surround and replacement timber battened door. Limestone holy water stoups to interior of porch. Interior of nave has exposed coursed rubble stone walls, with painted recesses with statues to entrance gable and upholstered panel to altar end, flanked by fluted render engaged columns supporting segmental canopy, with marble and brass altar to front. Hexagonal limestone baptismal font. Wooden Stations of the Cross to walls. Painted render recent boundary walls terminating in square-plan piers.

• Old School House, school, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform-plan single-storey school, dated 1860, comprising east-west block with three-bay gables having doorway flanked by windows, double-pile block to front having triple windows to each front gable and paired windows to outer side walls, and double-pile block to rear having three-bay rear walls west having three windows and east having door flanked by windows. Slate roof, pitched to east-west block and front block and hipped to rear block, and having rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Curved limestone brackets and limestone copings to gables. Coursed sandstone rubble walls having dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings thoughout with replacement uPVC sliding sash windows, windows of front block being set into tooled limestone composition with chamfered block-and-start surrounds to openings. Limestone plaques to upper gables of front block. Square-headed door openings having recent render surrounds and double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled doors, with glazed timber door to south elevation. Rebuilt coursed rubble stone boundary walls to front of site terminating in square-plan dressed limestone piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Recent outbuildings to rear.

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 Dernagree, about 1 in 10 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 Dernagree.

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 Dernagree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Dernagree · Doire na Graí

Area

482,991 m² (48.3 ha, 119.35 acres)

Civil parish

Dromtarriff, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Skagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

432 people lived in 150 households in the Skagh electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonbannin East, Cloonbannin West, Garrane North, Island-Dahill, Keale North

Placenames

Dernagree 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.