# Derrygalun, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Doire Ghealbhan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,605,138 m² (160.51 ha, 396.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,062 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilmeen-kanturk-ra.md - Barony: Duhallow - Electoral division: Coolclogh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10590 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42237 - Centre: latitude 52.166871, longitude -8.973901 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygalun, from 384 m² to 387,255 m² (38.73 ha, 95.69 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2173024: 387,255 m² (38.73 ha, 95.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173024.md - Parcel 2173023: 276,278 m² (27.63 ha, 68.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173023.md - Parcel 2312518: 203,023 m² (20.3 ha, 50.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312518.md - Parcel 2312521: 191,404 m² (19.14 ha, 47.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312521.md - Parcel 2312528: 120,198 m² (12.02 ha, 29.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312528.md - Parcel 2173029: 108,650 m² (10.86 ha, 26.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173029.md - Parcel 2173035: 75,522 m² (7.55 ha, 18.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173035.md - Parcel 2312530: 69,120 m² (6.91 ha, 17.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312530.md - Parcel 2173025: 46,151 m² (4.62 ha, 11.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173025.md - Parcel 2312519: 45,599 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312519.md - Parcel 2312517: 14,957 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312517.md - Parcel 2312529: 8,368 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312529.md - Parcel 2312520: 7,819 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312520.md - Parcel 2173032: 5,865 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173032.md - Parcel 3741887: 5,624 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3741887.md - Parcel 2173034: 4,501 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173034.md - Parcel 2312524: 4,438 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312524.md - Parcel 2312527: 3,955 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312527.md - Parcel 2173028: 3,740 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173028.md - Parcel 2173033: 3,467 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173033.md - Parcel 2173027: 2,697 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173027.md - Parcel 2524066: 2,668 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2524066.md - Parcel 2312526: 2,304 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312526.md - Parcel 2312525: 1,946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312525.md - Parcel 2524347: 1,860 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2524347.md - Parcel 2312523: 1,570 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2312523.md - Parcel 2524343: 1,060 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2524343.md - Parcel 2173026: 686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173026.md - Parcel 2173030: 429 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173030.md - Parcel 2173031: 384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2173031.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 25 Oct 2024, Cork County Council 24/6027: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/6027 - 5 May 2016, Cork County Council 16/5070: Conditional. Retention. Retention of attic conversion to living space with 4 no. rooflights, also roof as constructed and additional window to gable of existing dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/5070 - 26 Nov 2010, Cork County Council 10/8570: Conditional. Retention. Permission for retention of a single storey extension to front and side of dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/8570 - 31 Oct 2007, Cork County Council 07/12022: Conditional. Permission. Construction of slatted beef and dairy unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/12022 - 22 Mar 2007, Cork County Council 07/6316: Conditional. Permission. Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/6316 - 2 Jul 2004, Cork County Council 04/5044: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/5044 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO022-165001: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO022-165001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO022-165002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO022-166----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO022-167----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO022-168----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO022-169----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO022-257----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 20902208, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20902208. 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, registry number 20902209, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20902209. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/derrygalun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/derrygalun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/derrygalun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrygalun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyhoolahan East: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhoolahan-east.md - Cloongeel: https://everytownland.com/cork/cloongeel.md - Coolykereen: https://everytownland.com/cork/coolykereen.md - Curragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/curragh-42040.md - Farrangeel: https://everytownland.com/cork/farrangeel.md - Garranbaun: https://everytownland.com/cork/garranbaun.md - Knockaneroe: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockaneroe-43695.md - Lismeelcunnin: https://everytownland.com/cork/lismeelcunnin.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/derrygalun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/derrygalun