Derrygalun

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygalun, from 384 m² to 387,255 m² (38.73 ha, 95.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Derrygalun 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.

• 25 Oct 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6027

• 5 May 2016Conditional

  Retention of attic conversion to living space with 4 no. rooflights, also roof as constructed and additional window to gable of existing dwellinghouse

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/5070

• 26 Nov 2010Conditional

  Permission for retention of a single storey extension to front and side of dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 10/8570

• 31 Oct 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted beef and dairy unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12022

• 22 Mar 2007Conditional

  Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6316

• 2 Jul 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5044

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO022-165001 Burial ground
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps; shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map as rectangular area (c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by broken line, with church site (14474) in interior. In pasture, on W-facing slope. Levelled c. 1974; according to local information, site was enclosed by low bank (H 0.3m). Bowman (1934, 498) noted burial ground was 'circular, diam. 21 yards and...2ft higher than the surrounding field. There is no fence'. He names adjoining field to E 'Pairc a tSagairt - The Priests field'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-165002 Church
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps; marked 'church (site of)' on 1937 OS 6-inch map within burial ground (14088). Levelled c. 1974, no surface trace remains. Noted by Bowman (1934, 498) as church site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-166 House - vernacular house
  Description

  On W side of lane. Front (S) of 5 bays, modern addition off-centre to left; off-centre door to right. Rear elevation of 4 bays. Hipped roof of thatch; central chimney. One-storey vernacular house (15131) adjacent to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-167 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture, on N side of road, c. 4km W of Kanturk. Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map; shown on 1904 OS 6-inch map as rectangular field (c. 100m E-W; c. 25m N-S) and named 'Union Workhouse Burial Gd.'. Narrow rectangular burial ground enclosed on S side by stone wall with piered entrance gates. Interior uneven and used for grazing animals; only two low grave markers noted. No longer in use. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-168 House - vernacular house
  Description

  On E side of lane. Front (S) of 4 bays, off-centre door to right with projecting jambs. Roof hipped to W, gable-ended to E; thatched; off-centre chimney to left. One-storey vernacular house (15130) adjacent to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-169 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Roughly circular mound of burnt material (14.6m E-W; H 0.25m) with central depression (6m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE; D 0.5m); linear extension of mound (Wth 4.5m) to northwest (16.5m NW-SE, inclusive of mound width). According to local information, mound formerly higher and partially levelled c. 1955. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO022-257 Standing stone
  Description

  One of two standing stones (9960) recorded by Bowman (1934, 498) in this townland; 'In P. Murphy's. A hole was dug at the base and the Dallan buried'. According to local information, stone stood in field to NE of field in which stands graveyard (14089). Exact location within field not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having flat-roofed porch to front elevation. Hipped reed thatched roof, swept to gable ends, with canvas ridge and low rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, with one two-over-two pane to rear, with rendered sills. Replacement timber window and battened door to porch. Painted rendered boundary wall to west side of house terminating in square-profile painted rendered piers.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to front elevation, and lower two-bay extension to east end. Thatched roof, hipped to west and pitched to east, with rendered chimneystack. Pitched felt roof to extension. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed widened window openings with replacement timber windows and render sills. Replacement timber door to windbreak. Painted rendered cart loading platform with two render steps to front of house. Two-storey outbuilding to east, formerly single-storey, with pitched corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls. Iron haybarn to north-east. Painted rendered boundary walls terminating in square-profile rendered piers with decorative caps and double-leaf wrought-iron gate.

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 Derrygalun, 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 Derrygalun.

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

Name

Derrygalun · Doire Ghealbhan

Area

1,605,138 m² (160.51 ha, 396.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Coolclogh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

399 people lived in 139 households in the Coolclogh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhoolahan East, Cloongeel, Coolykereen, Curragh, Farrangeel, Garranbaun, Knockaneroe, Lismeelcunnin

Placenames

Derrygalun 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.