Derrymeeleen
Derrymeeleen is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Doire Mhaoilín.
- Area
- 178.2 ha
- 440 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,138 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 52
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymeeleen, from 15 m² to 321,494 m² (32.15 ha, 79.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Derrymeeleen 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
6 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a new two-storey house, garage, waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0544
23 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed
Planning Permission for the construction of a new two-storey house, garage, waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works at Derrymeeleen, Ballineen, Co. Cork.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0440
20 Dec 2025Invalid - case closed
Planning Permission for the construction of a new two-storey house, garage, waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works at Derrymeeleen, Ballineen, Co. Cork.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6922
2 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
Construction of a dwelling house and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6079
29 Oct 2021Conditional
Construct dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/748
2 Nov 2020Conditional
To construct a cattle underpass under public road and carry out associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6399
20 Oct 2017Conditional
Construct a dwellinghouse and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6733
6 Oct 2017Incompleted application
Construct a dwelling house and carry out associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6612
3 Oct 2016Conditional
Domestic garage (change of design from that previously permitted under Planning Reg. No. 14/6727) and revised site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6445
27 Jul 2016Incompleted application
Domestic garage (change of design from that previously permitted under Planning Reg. No. 14/6727) and revised site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5873
23 Jan 2015Conditional
Construct a bulk milk silo, wash room, extend existing milking parlour, extend existing roofed holding yard and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4118
14 Jan 2015Incompleted application
Construction of bulk milk silo, wash room, extension to existing milking parlour, extension to existing roofed holding yard, and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4054
16 Dec 2014Conditional
Demolition of existing derelict house and construction of new replacement house including detached garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6727
23 Jul 2013Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and associated site works (change of plan from that previously permitted under Planning Ref. No. 10/4362
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5415
19 Feb 2010Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4362
4 Mar 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5191
8 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/11495
20 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of cattle house with slatted slurry tanks, loose cattle house, overground slurry storage tank, soiled water tank, concrete aprons and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13567
29 Nov 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12775
27 Oct 2006Refused
Two storey dwellinghouse and detached double garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11809
6 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10354
25 Aug 2006Conditional
Dormer style dwellinghouse and garage
Approval · Cork County Council, 06/10045
3 Aug 2006Conditional
Installation of windows and doors to basement of dwelling and retention of existing basement, south facing window over the garage door and velux windows
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9493
17 Jul 2006Incompleted application
Installation of doors and windows to basement and retention of existing basement, south facing window over garage door and all velux windows to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8934
29 May 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7588
The 25 most recent of 52 applications.
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 Derrymeeleen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrymeeleen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrymeeleen.
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 Derrymeeleen, about 1 in 10 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 Derrymeeleen.
- 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 Derrymeeleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Derrymeeleen · Doire Mhaoilín
- Area
- 1,781,847 m² (178.18 ha, 440.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Knocks, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 333 people lived in 111 households in the Knocks electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkitt East, Ardkitt West, Ballinard, Ballyvoige, Curraghcrowly East, Curraghcrowly West, Derry, Kilnameela, Shanaway East
- Placenames
- Derrymeeleen 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.