Derrygereen

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygereen, from 164 m² to 182,675 m² (18.27 ha, 45.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 95 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for domestic garage/store to be used for the storage of vintage vehicles along with all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0416

• 1 Sept 2025Conditional permission

  1. Construction of single storey extensions, alterations and elevational changes to existing bungalow. 2. Change of use of attached domestic garage to form part of dwellinghouse. 3. Widening of existing vehicular entrance and driveway, along with new parking and turning area on site. 4. Permission for retention of existing garden buiding to rear of dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/496

• 25 Oct 2022Conditional

  Revision to previously approved 20/00711 new gym / training facility / equipment store, alongside existing Skibbereen Rowing Club

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/656

• 15 Jun 2021Application withdrawn

  Construction of new entrance and access road to existing boatyard, closing of existing entrance and all associated site works also permission for retention of workshop

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 21/394

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  Retain detached building consisting of artist studio / storage area / home office / utility space (All for Private Use) and ancillary to the main dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/379

• 7 Dec 2020Conditional

  Construction of a new gym / training facility / equipment store, alongside existing rowing club

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/711

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  Change of use and to carry out alterations to an existing domestic garage as granted permission under planning register number 10/123 to a dwelling house and for the installation of a septic tank and percolation area, upgrade existing entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/827

• 6 Aug 2019Conditional

  Permission for development of (i) a concrete sea wall with infill behind and a concrete slab over, (ii) a floating pontoon style dock comprising three stay bridges and one 30m floating section hinged off the proposed sea wall and (iii) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/515

• 29 Sept 2017Withdrawn

  To construct a dwellinghouse, to re-align existing driveway, to install a wastewater treatment unit and to carry out all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/641

• 19 Mar 2015Conditional

  Single storey extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/139

• 9 Mar 2015Incompleted application

  Single storey extension to existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/118

• 3 Oct 2014Conditional

  Permission for retention and permission for completion of unauthorised dwelling under construction including a retaining wall (constructed in lieu of garage as granted permission under planning register number 10/123). Permission is also sought to construct extensions to same and for the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/571

• 3 Oct 2014Conditional

  Permission to alter the site boundaries of dwelling house as granted under planning permission register number 05/1454

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/572

• 12 Mar 2014Conditional

  Single storey sunroom and entrance lobby extensions and retention of utility room extension to existing two storey dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/182

• 19 Feb 2014Incompleted application

  The development will consist of single storey sunroom and entrance lobby extensions and retention of utiltity room extension to existing two storey dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/120

• 30 Nov 2010Conditional

  Retention of second entrance and roadway ancillary to dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 10/825

• 10 Nov 2010Incompleted application

  Retention of second entrance and roadway ancillary to dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 10/778

• 24 Feb 2010Conditional

  Retention of a) front porch, b) rear sun room c) conversion of attic space of dwelling to living accommodation including the installation of additional rooflights. Permission to construct a detached domestic garage with loft storage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/123

• 4 Dec 2009Incompleted application

  Domestic garage and retention of dwelling as constructed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2151

• 4 Aug 2009Withdrawn

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/876

• 17 Apr 2009Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/436

• 15 Apr 2008Conditional

  Retention of single storey extension and minor elevational changes consisting of canopy roof over external deck area to front elevation

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/673

• 26 Feb 2008Conditional

  Extensions and alterations to dwelling to include integration of existing detached garage; permission for change of use of said garage to residential use and extension and alterations to same

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/349

• 29 Jan 2008Incompleted application

  Extensions and alterations to dwellinghouse, change of use from double garage to residential use and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/153

• 25 Sept 2007Conditional

  Extend existing boatyard to include reclamation of part of riverbank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2515

The 25 most recent of 45 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 Derrygereen.

Recorded monuments

• CO141-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on level ground, above W-facing slope. Circular, slightly raised area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.2m). Gap in bank to SSE (Wth 2m). 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrygereen.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrygereen.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Derrygereen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Derrygereen · Doire Géirín

Area

1,191,277 m² (119.13 ha, 294.37 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Skibbereen Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skibbereen Rural electoral division: 1,400 people in 484 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunlick, Drisheen, Mallavonea, Oldcourt

Placenames

Derrygereen 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.