Derreennacarton
Derreennacarton is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnamartery, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Doirín na Ceártan.
- Area
- 41 ha
- 101 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 2,871 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreennacarton, from 266 m² to 154,006 m² (15.4 ha, 38.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Derreennacarton 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
16 Aug 2017Conditional
Construct a calving house and a cubicle/loose house with underground effluent storage tank and associated site work.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6117
30 Dec 2015Conditional permission
The proposed wind farm will comprise the provision of a total of 11 no. wind turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of up to 150m, upgrading of existing and provision of new internal access roads, provision of a wind anemometry mast (height up to 100 metres), 2 no. borrow pits, underground electrical cabling, underground grid connection electrical cabling including all associated infrastructure, junction accommodation works for the proposed turbine delivery route and provision of a temporary roadway to facilitate turbine component deliveries, 1 no. electricity sub-station with control building and associated equipment, 1 no. construction compound, upgrading of the existing site access junctions, permanent signage, and all ancillary site works. The proposed development comprises the redesign of a wind farm at this location previously considered by Cork County Council and An Bord Pleanala under pl. ref: 11/5245, and PL 04.240801 respectively.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6966
9 Jun 2011Refused
Construction of a wind farm consisting of 11No. wind turbines with a maximum ground to top blade tip height of up to 126m with ancillary structures, 1 No. permanent 85 meter meteorological mast, 1 No. substation compound with control house, internal road network and associated drainage features, 1 No. wind turbine delivery entrance, 1 No. light vehicle access entrance, 2 No. borrow pits, underground cabling, temporary construction site compound, and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5245
14 Jan 2005Incompleted application
Windfarm with 7 no. wind turbines and electrical substation
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/118
5 May 2004Incompleted application
Windfarm consisting of 10 no. wind turbines and electrical substation
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3034
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 Derreennacarton.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derreennacarton.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreennacarton.
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 Derreennacarton, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derreennacarton.
- 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 Derreennacarton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Derreennacarton · Doirín na Ceártan
- Area
- 409,707 m² (40.97 ha, 101.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnamartery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Candroma, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 333 people lived in 123 households in the Candroma electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cleanrath North, Cloontycarthy, Kilmakaroge, Lisboy More
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Derreennacarton 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.