Derrygool
Townland in the civil parish of Abbeystrowry, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Doire an Ghuail
- Area
- 46.5 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 1,072 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygool, from 45 m² to 233,588 m² (23.36 ha, 57.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 May 2021Conditional
Permission to renovate and extend existing dwelling house, permission to construct a two storey extension to said dwelling house to be used as ancillary living accommodation including a ground floor connecting door to existing ancillary living accommodation and carry out all associated site works, (alteration to plan previously granted under planning ref no. 19/00038
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/279
24 Jan 2019Conditional
(i) the demolition of existing sun room and lean-to structure on an existing dwellinghouse; (ii) the construction of a single storey extension [entrance porch] and a two storey extension incorporating a glazed two storey link to said dwellinghouse; (iii) the construction of alterations to said dwellinghouse to include the raising of existing walls and roof and the installation of 2 no. roof-lights; (iv) the retention of and carrying out of alterations to an existing two storey ancillary residential building to include the raising of existing walls and roof and a connection at ground and first floor levels to the proposed extension to said dwellinghouse; (v) the retention and change of use of a second existing detached two storey ancillary residential building and its conversion to a granny flat on the ground floor with carer's accommodation at first floor level (vi) the installation of a septic tank and percolation area to replace an existing tank and percolation area and (vii) all associated site works to include waste water treatment system and surface water drainage works, a new car parking area and related landscape works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/38
5 Mar 2018Withdrawn
Permission for (i) the demolition of existing sun room and lean-to structure on an existing dwellinghouse; (ii) the construction of a two storey extension and two single storey extensions to said dwellinghouse; (iii) the construction of alterations to said dwellinghouse to include the raising of existing walls and roof and the installation of 2 no. roof-lights; (iv) the carrying out of alterations to an existing two storey ancillary residential building to include a connection at ground and first floor levels to the proposed extension to said dwellinghouse; (v) the carrying out of alterations to second existing detached two storey ancillary residential building including works necessary for change of use of said building to a granny flat on the ground floor with carer's accommodation at first floor level (vi) the replacement of existing septic tank and installation of new septic tank and percolation area and (vii) all associated site works to include: foul and surface water drainage works, a new car parking area and related landscape works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/115
19 Jul 2017Conditional
for erection of detached studio and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/481
18 Feb 2015Conditional
Permission for retention of single storey extensions to dwellinghouse, garden shed and associated site development works
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/64
18 Nov 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, waste water treatment unit, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2047
16 Dec 2002Conditional
Extension to dwelling for use as granny flat
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5577
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 Derrygool.
Recorded monuments
- CO141-129001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on NNW-facing slope. Circular, slightly raised area (diam. c. 25m) defined by earthen bank. Souterrain (CO141-129002-) in interior. Enclosure heavily overgrown. 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
- CO141-129002 Souterrain
Description
In centre of ringfort (CO141-129001-). Marked 'Cave' on OS 6-inch map (1902). No visible surface trace; heavily overgrown. 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
- CO141-131 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Marked as circular enclosure on OS 6-inch map (1842). Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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 Derrygool.
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
- About 1 in 5 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 Derrygool.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrygool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Derrygool · Doire an Ghuail
- Area
- 465,330 m² (46.53 ha, 114.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeystrowry, 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
- Carrigfadda, Coomnageehy, Poundlick, Russagh
- Placenames
- Derrygool 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.