Derreen
Derreen is a townland in the civil parish of Inchigeelagh, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Doirín an Chnoic Rua.
- Area
- 143.4 ha
- 354 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 4,247 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 34 m² to 464,689 m² (46.47 ha, 114.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission for 1) the change of use of two existing stores to a dwelling house, 2) permission for construction of a single storey extension between the existing stores to connect the existing stores to form one dwelling, 3) elevational changes to the existing structures to include a new roof, increase in ridge height to existing buildings, 4) alterations to window and door fenestration of the existing buildings, & 5) installation of a proprietary treatment system and percolation area together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4468
11 Jul 2008Conditional
Construction of log cabin dwelling, installation of treatment plant and retention of ground works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7831
20 Jun 2008Incompleted application
Log cabin dwelling, treatment unit and associated site works and retention of ground works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7396
14 Nov 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/12369
26 Nov 2004Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8701
13 Mar 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse and barn with septic tank and puraflo system
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1062
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derreen.
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 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.
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 · Doirín an Chnoic Rua
- Area
- 1,433,720 m² (143.37 ha, 354.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchigeelagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Inchigeelagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 586 people lived in 229 households in the Inchigeelagh electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cleanrath South, Derryvane, Graigue, Turnaspidogy
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- 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.