Derrylough

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrylough, from 94 m² to 554,507 m² (55.45 ha, 137.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Derrylough 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.

• 26 Jul 2011Conditional

  Alterations and extension to dwelling and the installation of a septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/464

• 2 Nov 2004Conditional

  Extensions to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8124

• 30 Jul 2004Incompleted application

  2 storey extension plus single storey summer room extension to existing house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5890

• 5 May 2000New application

  Installation & use of batching plant & ancillary facilities for the production of readymixed concrete mortars & screeds

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2647

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Leahill Bog NHA 002417

Recorded monuments

• CO117-013 Penitential station
  Description

  In a small reed-covered lake, on the W side of a road. According to local information, rounds were made at this lake on 8 July in the past and rosary beads were left hanging on the branches of nearby willow trees. Small islands on the lake were said to move from time to time. It was regarded locally as a twin lake of Lough Mackeenlaun in Derryrush, Co. Kerry, on the N side of the Beara Peninsula - a well-known penitential station. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO117-014 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In an area overgrown with briars and ferns on the edge of a cliff overlooking Bantry Bay to the S. According to local information, the small upright stones in this area mark the graves of children. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derrylough · Doire Locha

Area

1,225,527 m² (122.55 ha, 302.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaskan, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Adrigole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Adrigole electoral division: 497 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curragh East, Leahill, Roosk

Placenames

Derrylough 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.