Derreen Upper

137 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen Upper, from 13 m² to 1,485,041 m² (148.5 ha, 366.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derreen Upper 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.

• 20 Dec 2001Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6879

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Hungry Hill Bog NHA 001059

Recorded monuments

• CO116-037 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gorse-covered terrace, on a S-facing slope. A rectangular area (18m E-W; 10m N-S) enclosed by intermittent traces of a stone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.3m) on the W, N and E sides and by outcropping rock on the S side. According to local information, this is a 'cillíneach' or children's burial ground. Some plain uninscribed stone grave-markers were noted, especially in the E half. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Derreen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Derreen Upper · An Doirín Uachtarach

Area

2,399,709 m² (239.97 ha, 592.98 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaskan, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Curryglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Curryglass electoral division: 427 people in 179 households; 86% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawn, Cappanaparka West, Derreen Lower, Dromaclaurig (Co. Kerry), Inchintaglin

Placenames

Derreen Upper 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.