Derryfadda
Derryfadda is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Doire Fada.
- Area
- 148.8 ha
- 368 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 52,309 m² (5.23 ha, 12.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryfadda, from 293 m² to 326,310 m² (32.63 ha, 80.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Derryfadda 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
10 Jan 2022Conditional
Installation of replacement wastewater treatment system to serve existing house
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6
7 May 2021Conditional
Permission for the following (i) retention of existing agricultural shed (ii) permission for construction of new detached hay shed and (iii) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/294
11 Nov 2019Conditional
Construction of dwelllinghouse, installation of a wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site work
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/715
24 Jul 2019Conditional
Construction of a slatted farm shed for the purpose of housing cattle and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/494
11 Aug 2011Conditional
Retention of dwelling house, (alteration of design, location and finished floor level of dwelling house granted under planning reference no 08/1997) and permission for retention of septic tank and percolation area, (installed instead of the sewage treament unit granted under planning ref no 08/1997)
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/496
7 Nov 2008Conditional
Construction of 1no. dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1997
3 Oct 2006Conditional
Erect livestock buildings, associated effluent tanks and clean yards
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2017
25 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Livestock buildings, associated effluent tanks and clean yards
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1699
13 Apr 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2347
22 Mar 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1726
14 Feb 2003Refused
Single storey dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/563
14 Oct 2002New application
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 02/4543
22 Jul 2002New application
2 no. dwellings
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 02/3256
16 Dec 1999Conditional
Retention of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/6900
25 Feb 1998Conditional
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 98/641
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 Derryfadda.
Recorded monuments
- CO092-055 Souterrain
Description
In a coniferous wood, on a slightly raised area on a gentle N-facing slope. A roughly rectangular area (4m N-S; 1.7m E-W) collapsed in the recent past exposing a variety of moss-covered stone slabs lying at varying angles. The largest exposed slab (L 1.95m; Wth 1.26m; T 0.08m), a roof lintel, slopes down to S and rests on other stones, which are leaning inwards or have collapsed. 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 Derryfadda.
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 Derryfadda, 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 Derryfadda.
- 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 Derryfadda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Derryfadda · Doire Fada
- Area
- 1,488,130 m² (148.81 ha, 367.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmocomoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Douce, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 260 people lived in 103 households in the Douce electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappaboy More, Lackareagh, Maugha, Maulavanig, Shronagreehy
- Placenames
- Derryfadda 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.