Derrigra

133 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrigra, from 8 m² to 92,010 m² (9.2 ha, 22.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.6Utility and Infrastructure (Other transport/general uses)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Mar 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for development which consist of 2 no. sites (Site A) the existing wastewater treatment plant (WwTP) and (Site B) at the proposed wastewater treatment facilities on a new site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0672

• 6 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed

  Uisce Eireann intends to apply to Cork County Council for permission for development which consist of 2 No sites (Site A) the existing wastewater treatment plant (WwTP) and (Site B) at the proposed wastewater treatment facilities on a new site both located in Derrigra, Ballineen, Co Cork.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0249

• 18 Nov 2021Conditional

  Permission for retention of existing dwelling and associated site works to the east of The Olympic Tavern public house

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/798

• 1 Oct 2021Withdrawn

  Construction of dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit, sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/674

• 1 Oct 2021Withdrawn

  Decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area, and installation of wastewater treatment unit, sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/676

• 28 Aug 2019Unconditional permission

  Demolish existing dwelling house and construct 2 no. semi-detached dwelling houses with new site entrance and associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/556

• 24 Jun 2019Conditional

  The demolition of an existing boundary wall, the removal of an existing footpath, the construction of a new boundary fence and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/421

• 2 May 2019Withdrawn

  Demolition of portion of existing building and construction of new building containing 2 no. apartments, parking to rear and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/286

• 15 Jan 2019Conditional

  Permission to demolish rear extension to commercial unit, to convert commercial unit into apartment, to re-construct rear extension to apartment, to make minor alterations to existing elevations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/18

• 5 Dec 2018Incompleted application

  Demolish rear extension to commercial unit, permission to convert commercial unit to apartment, to re-construct rear extension to apartment, to make minor alterations to existing elevations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/742

• 5 Aug 2016Conditional

  Planning permission for the retention of a sun-room extension to the side of existing dwelling.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/500

• 15 Dec 2015Unconditional

  Detached dwelling with on-site parking

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/706

• 16 Jun 2015Conditional

  Construction of a ground and first floor extension to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/326

• 7 Oct 2014Conditional permission

  Demolish existing dwelling house and construct 2 no. semi-detached dwelling houses with new site entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/577

• 23 Dec 2013Conditional

  Construct sunroom extension to front of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/714

• 7 Dec 2012Unconditional

  Construction of 3 no. dwellings and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/745

• 9 Aug 2012Conditional

  construct single storey extension to rear of existing building, demolition of existing meeting room/toilets and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/517

• 9 Sept 2011Unconditional

  Construction of 10 terraced, 8 semi-detached, 4 detached and 2 large detached houses, with optional integral car garages, totalling 24 two-storey houses; boundary walls and fences, estate roads and services

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/553

• 22 Jun 2011Conditional

  Construct single storey extension to rear of existing building, demolition of existing meeting room toilets and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/371

• 1 Jun 2011Incompleted application

  Construct single storey extension to rear of existing building, demolition of existing meeting room/toilets and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/322

• 24 Feb 2011Conditional

  Detached dwelling with on site parking

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/114

• 14 Jan 2011Incompleted application

  Detached dwelling with on site parking

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/15

• 27 Aug 2010Withdrawn

  Detached dwelling house with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/590

• 16 Jul 2010Incompleted application

  Construction of a detached dwelling with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/511

• 6 May 2010Conditional

  Erect a single storey extension to existing chemist consisting of extension to shop and storage room on ground floor and associated siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/318

The 25 most recent of 75 applications.

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 Derrigra.

Recorded monuments

• CO109-001001 Market-house
  Description

  Rectangular structure (44.7m N-S; 12.1m E-W) at E end of Ballineen; now used as garage with modern roof. Entrance-front set back from road; armorial plaque over enlarged doorway. Internally, short length of pointed arcading (Wth 3.05m) survives, parallel to W wall. Once an open central yard, with stalls behind arcading. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO109-089 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, in a stream valley. Discovered in 2000 during topsoil stripping in advance of the laying of the Ballincollig-Ballineen gas pipeline (Tobin 2002a, 46-7). The fulacht fia, which had been levelled during land drainage works prior to the pipeline development, was also damaged during the topsoil stripping. It comprised a spread (7m E-W; 4.8m N-S) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. Excavation revealed a possible trough (1.62m E-W; 1.47m N-S), lined with wicker/wattle embedded in an impermeable clay. 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

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having integral carriage arch to eastern end of front (south) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front elevation having replacement glazed timber door. Camber-headed integral carriage arch having timber battened door. Located on roadside.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and shared rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with render platbands having render sill band to first floor of front (south) elevation. Square-headed window openings with rendered stone sills and raised render surrounds. Timber-framed tripartite window to ground floor of front elevation, having one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. One-over-one timber sliding sash windows to first floor. Square-headed door opening with raised render surround, having replacement timber panelled door surmounted by single pane overlight. Set along roadside.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, now also in use as garage. Two-storey return and later lean-to extension to rear (north). Pitched slate roofs with rendered eaves course, chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout having render sill band to first floor of front (south) elevation. Roughcast rendered wall to return. Square-headed windows with stone sills throughout, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor of front elevation. Timber-framed tripartite window to ground floor of front elevation, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Fixed single-pane timber-framed display window to ground floor of front elevation. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window and timber-framed bipartite window with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to return. Replacement casement windows to rear elevation of lean-to. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber door and overlight to front elevation. Set along roadside with petrol pumps and signage.

• The Corner House, public house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, formerly also in use as public house, now disused. Timber shopfront to front (south) elevation and later pitched roofed return to rear (north). Pitched slate roofs with rendered eaves course, chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, having uPVC casement windows. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to side (west) elevation. Square-headed door opening to side (west) elevation having replacement glazed timber door. Timber shopfront comprising panelled pilasters surmounted by architrave, painted frieze and cornice. Square-headed window openings over rendered stall risers, having fixed three-pane timber-framed display windows. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled doors surmounted by single-pane overlight. Set along roadside.

• House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Pointed arch window openings with rendered sills and rubble stone voussoirs to ground floor, having raised render reveals and uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills and rubble stone voussoirs to first floor, having raised rendered reveals and uPVC casement windows. Pointed arch door opening with rubble stone voussoirs and raised rendered reveals to front (south) elevation, having uPVC door and overlight. Set within own grounds along roadside with rubble stone enclosing walls to front having square-profile gate piers and replacement timber gate.

• Market place, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached stepped gable-fronted single-bay entrance to former market place, built c.1800, now in use as store. Replacement pitched and barrel-roofed corrugated-iron roofs. Rubble stone walls with concrete crest. Square-headed window openings to side (east, west) elevations with stone sills having timber battened fittings. Square-headed door opening to front elevation having replacement metal sheet door. Set along roadside.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having later lean-to extension to rear (north). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC and rainwater goods. Rendered walls with exposed rubble stone walls to rear extension. Square-headed window openings with stone sills throughout, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Two-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and timber casement windows to rear extension window openings. Round-headed door opening to front elevation having glazed timber door with single pane fanlight. Set within own grounds along roadside, having rendered enclosing walls with square-profile gate piers and replacement wrought-iron gate.

• Ballineen Railway Station, railway station, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, built 1866. Now disused. Central three-bay breakfront and lean-to side entry porch to front (north). Later pitched roofed extension to side (west) and lean-to addition to rear (south). Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with plinth. Square-headed window openings with stone sills having six-over-six pane, two-over-two pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with occasional replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to porch having timber panelled door. Set within own grounds.

• Ballineen Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Methodist church, built 1870-1, on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered battered walls. Pointed-arch window openings with concrete sills, timber Y-mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Pointed-arch door opening (porch) with step threshold, and concealed dressings framing tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overpanel. Lancet window openings ("cheeks") with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

• T. Fehily, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey former pair of houses, built c.1820, having timber shopfront. Pitched slate roofs with rendered eaves course, render gable copings, chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with channelled render quoins and rendered sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with raised render surrounds having margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with coloured glass side panels. Timber shopfront comprising pilasters with decorative consoles surmounted by architrave, frieze with recent signage and dentilated cornice. Square-headed window openings over rendered stall risers and sills, having fixed single-pane display windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber door. Located fronting directly onto street.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Pitched slate roof with rendered eaves course, chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills to front (north) elevation, having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door having multiple-pane overlight flanked by glazed side panels. Set along roadside.

• Arcade, hotel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey former hotel, built c.1860, having timber shopfront and integral carriage arch to front (north) elevation. Now in use as shop and house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with rendered sill courses to first and second floors and render string course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds throughout, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed integral carriage arch having rendered lintel and replacement double-leaf timber gate. Timber shopfront having panelled pilasters, surmounted by timber fascia board, corbels and cornice. Square-headed window openings over rendered stall risers, having render sills and fixed timber-framed multiple-pane display windows. Square-headed door openings having timber panelled door surmounted by single pane overlight to eastern bay and uPVC door to central bay. Set along roadside.

• Arcade, hall, 1900–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached gable-fronted five-bay two-storey former hall, built c.1920, having timber shopfront to front (north) elevation. Now in use as shop. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, having rendered parapet wall with clock and moulded render string course to front elevation. Rendered walls having render sill course to first floor and render string course over first floor windows. Square-headed window openings flanking central round-headed window openings to first floor of front elevation having one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Timber shopfront having channelled pilasters surmounted by scroll consoles, architrave, frieze with raised lettering and dentilated cornice. Square-headed window openings over rendered stall risers, having render sills and fixed uPVC display windows. Square-headed door opening having double-leaf uPVC doors. Set along roadside.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey shop and house, built c.1820, having timber shopfront to front (south) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered eaves course, chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with stone sills throughout, having render label mouldings with label stops to first floor of front elevation having uPVC casement windows. Rendered surround and fixed uPVC display window to ground floor of front elevation. Timber shopfront comprising pilasters surmounted by consoles, architrave, painted fascia board and cornice. Set along roadside.

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

At the centre of the townland of Derrigra, 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 Derrigra.

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

Name

Derrigra · Deargráth

Area

645,547 m² (64.55 ha, 159.52 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymoney, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Ballymoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

885 people lived in 323 households in the Ballymoney electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrigra, Derrigra West, Gurteenroe, Knockaneady

Placenames

Derrigra 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.