Derree

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derree, from 92 m² to 265,574 m² (26.56 ha, 65.62 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Derree 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.

• 22 Dec 2015Conditional

  Construction of cubicle house with underground effluent tank and straw bed sheep house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6949

• 6 Jun 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted cubicle shed, concrete yard, crush enclosure and loose cattle shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7812

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 Derree.

Recorded monuments

• CO069-002 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough grazing, on N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Oval area (20m E-W; 16m N-S) enclosed by low wall of dry-stone construction, set in a random fashion.Interior level; broken occasionally by rock outcrop; irregular area to NE (L 1.7m; Wth 0.6m) enclosed by loose rubble. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO069-003 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On level spur in cut-away bog overlooking Douglas River valley to NE. Comprises ruined gallery (L 2.3m; Wth c. 0.9m at E end) aligned ENE-WSW, represented by two jamb-like stones at W end, single sidestones to N and S, and doubling of backstone at E end; outer-wall stones to N, E and S.Upright slab to NW may be remains of facade or part of pre-bog wall which skirts N side of monument (CO069-070---). (Ó Nualláin 1989, 135) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO069-070 Field boundary
  Description

  In upland, covered with blanket bog, c. 28m to W and SW of wedge tomb (CO069-003-). Turf cutting exposed lines of stones at depth of 0.6m-0.7m under bog. Most substantial wall runs NNE-SSW for distance of 112m, curving gently. Second line of stones, parallel to and c. 3-5m E of above wall, extends from cutting 8m beyond NNE end of it and runs SSW for c. 28m; after gap of 6m, wall continues SSW for 58m before disappearing into bog. Immediately S of 6m gap is wall, not fully exposed, extending E; second E-Wwall (L 20m) lies 38m to NNE of main NNE-SSW wall. May be remains of laneway with walls extending from it on either side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derree.

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derree.

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

Name

Derree · Na Doirí

Area

1,449,392 m² (144.94 ha, 358.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyvourney, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Gortnatubbrid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

474 people lived in 173 households in the Gortnatubbrid electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolea, Derreenaculling, Fuhiry, Gortnascarty, Gortyrahilly

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derree 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.