Derrygowna
Derrygowna is a townland in the civil parish of Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Doire Gamhna.
- Area
- 168.8 ha
- 417 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 109,451 m² (10.95 ha, 27.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygowna, from 101 m² to 591,061 m² (59.11 ha, 146.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Derrygowna 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
8 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a bovine livestock unit with underground slatted effluent storage tank and all associated site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1515
21 Dec 2023Conditional
Permission for retention for slatted unit shed extension to existing farm buildings as constructed on site and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/6598
23 Jul 2014Conditional
Permission for wind farm comprising the provision of a total of 14no. Wind turbines with a maximum overall blade tip height pf up to 136.5m, upgrading of existing and provision of new internal access roads, provision of a wind anemometry mast (height up to 90m), 4no. borrow pits, an electricity substation with control room and associated equipment, underground electricity connection cabling, 3no. temporary construction compounds, and all ancillary site works including the upgrading of site access junctions.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5602
18 Sept 2012Conditional
Retention of (i) existing dwellinghouse on site with revised boundaries, (ii) existing car port and (iii) 2 no. existing entrances
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5977
3 Sept 2012Incompleted application
Retention of i) existing dwellinghouse on site with revised boundaries, ii) existing car port, iii) 2 no. existing entrances
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5887
21 Aug 2012Conditional
Upgrade existing septic tank to treatment unit with new percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5798
13 Jun 2011Conditional
Windfarm to consist of [a] the provision of a total of 12 no. wind turbines with a maximum ground to top blade tip height of up to 126 metres, [b] upgrading of existing and provision of new internal access roads, [c] provision of a wind anemometry mast (85 metres in height), [d] 2 no. borrow pits, [e] an electricity sub-station with control room (as previously approved under Planning Reg. No. 11/4242), and [f] associated equipment and all ancilary site and facilitating works to existing road junctions.
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5276
21 Nov 2007Conditional
Relocation of entrance to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12539
20 Nov 2007Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12479
30 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10630
21 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of stables, barn, dung storage area, effluent tank, all weather paddocks and clean yards
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6277
19 Oct 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11567
24 Aug 2006Refused
Single storey dwelling and domestic shed/garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10015
23 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Single storey dwelling and shed/garage for domestic use
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8318
24 Jan 2006Incompleted application
One and half storey dwellinghouse and domestic shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4267
23 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9825
14 Dec 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9272
24 May 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3529
14 Oct 2004New application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7727
18 Sept 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 03/4694
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 Derrygowna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrygowna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrygowna.
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 Derrygowna, 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 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 Derrygowna.
- 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 Derrygowna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Derrygowna · Doire Gamhna
- Area
- 1,688,066 m² (168.81 ha, 417.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilshannig, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Kilshannig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,140 people lived in 399 households in the Kilshannig electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Esk North, Glanminnane, Glen South, Lackaneen, Monanveel
- Placenames
- Derrygowna 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.