Derrintogher
Derrintogher is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnamartery, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Doire an Tóchair.
- Area
- 75.4 ha
- 186 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 185,656 m² (18.57 ha, 45.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrintogher, from 3,328 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) to 378,920 m² (37.89 ha, 93.63 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
No zone of a development plan covers Derrintogher 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
31 Mar 2021Conditional
To construct (i) two cubicles shed extensions with slatted tanks and feeding areas (ii) straw storage shed (iii) loose calving shed with slatted tanks (iv) calf shed extension and all associated site works. Demolition of existing calving sheds is also required.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4813
10 Apr 2015Conditional
Construction of an agricultural building over an existing open yard area comprising of (a) milking parlour and holding area, and (b) livestock handling area including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4701
24 Mar 2015Incompleted application
Construction of agricultural building over an existing open yard area comprising of (a) milking parlour & holding area, (b) livestock handling area including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4563
4 Dec 2014Conditional
Dwelling house, proprietary treatment unit and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6604
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 Derrintogher.
Recorded monuments
- CO070-055 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop knoll, on S-facing slope overlooking Toon River valley. Circular raised area (26m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.85m), with external fosse (D 0.45m). Cattle breaks in bank to E and NW. Site partially overgrown with furze bushes. No visible surface trace of linear hachured bank (L c. 40m) tangential to NW side of enclosure and L-shaped field boundary to NE of enclosure depicted on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. 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
- CO070-119 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, well c. 50m to E. Oval mound of burnt material (L 18m; Wth 14.5m; H 0.3m). 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 Derrintogher.
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 Derrintogher, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrintogher.
- 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 Derrintogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Derrintogher · Doire an Tóchair
- Area
- 753,675 m² (75.37 ha, 186.24 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
- Ballyvoge, Caherdaha, Cools, Knocksaharn, Lisboy Beg
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Derrintogher 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.