Derreen
Derreen is a townland in the civil parish of Drishane, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Doirín.
- Area
- 45.2 ha
- 112 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 1,944 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 1,625 m² to 447,258 m² (44.73 ha, 110.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Derreen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- CO038-061 Boulder-burial
Description
In flat pasture, on S side of Owennagloor River basin. Rounded boulder (2.25m x 1.5m; 1.25m T) rests on three support stones. (O Nualláin 1978, 83, no. 1) 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
- CO038-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
In wooded area to NW of farmyard. Hachured as circular enclosure on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps; limekiln depicted on bank to NW (1842 OS 6-inch map). Roughly circular area (29m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.55m). Bank stone-faced externally to E, S and W. Gap in bank to W. Interior planted with trees. 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 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 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 low, low.
- 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. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Derreen · An Doirín
- Area
- 452,101 m² (45.21 ha, 111.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drishane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Coomlogane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 995 people lived in 401 households in the Coomlogane electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagloor, Ballydaly, Claragh Beg, Claragh More, Ferm
- 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.