Derryvillane

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryvillane, from 135 m² to 317,088 m² (31.71 ha, 78.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Derryvillane 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.

• 8 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  To construct a cubicle house extension with slatted tank, roof over existing cubicles, effluent tank, drafting area and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0885

• 1 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of septic tank and percolation area to serve existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4438

• 31 Aug 2021Conditional

  Construction of a slatted unit and all associated site work

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6396

• 9 Mar 2021Conditional

  To construct a cubicle house with slatted tanks, dairy house with feed bin, unroofed holding yard, silage slab, convert cattle shed to milking parlour with drafting area and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4599

• 8 Mar 2019Conditional

  Construction of split-level dwelling house, detached domestic garage, treatment unit and percolation area, vehicular entrance and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4581

• 27 Feb 2019Conditional

  Construct a straw bedded cattle shed and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4470

• 4 Oct 2017Conditional

  Erect a part two storey and a part single storey dwellinghouse, waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6588

• 10 Jun 2008Conditional

  Dwelling, garage and installation of treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7202

• 17 Sept 2007Conditional

  Dwelling, garage, entrance & new septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11046

• 8 Aug 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9566

• 6 Jul 2005Conditional

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4803

• 8 Jun 2004Conditional

  Slatted unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4100

• 1 Apr 2003Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse with granny flat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1457

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 Derryvillane.

Recorded monuments

• CO019-079 Kiln - lime
  Description

  In limestone quarry, on W cliff edge of River Funshion. Overgrown front elevation (H 6m; Wth 6.5m) faces NE; arched recess (H 2.7m; Wth 2.55m; D 2.45m), second lower inner arch, corbelled stones to rear, rectangular ope at base. Rear overgrown. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-080001 Graveyard
  Description

  Approached from road c. 70m to E. Irregular graveyard (max. 60m WSW-ENE; max. 60m NNW-SSE), enclosed by stone wall; entered via stile to E. Ruin of parish church of Derryvillane (14416) in centre. Area to E, N and W of church inaccessible due to dense overgrowth but gravemarkers concentrated here. Marked burials to S of church mostly 19th century, including canopy tomb of 1883; earliest headstone noted dated 1780, just S of church. Southern third of graveyard has no evident gravemarkers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-080002 Church
  Description

  In centre of graveyard (14573). Ruinous rectangular church (int. c. 15m E-W; int. 6.65m N-S); walls ivy clad, east end of interior densely overgrown. West gable appears to stand to full height (under ivy mantle) as does most of N wall; S wall has wide gap in centre (Wth 4m) and is missing E end; area of E wall obscured by overgrowth but wall appears to be entirely fallen- described by Power (1932, 63) as 'prostrate'. South wall has cut-limestone corbel, perhaps to support loft, 1.8m from W end. Lying S of gap is cut-limestone ogee-head for window light. North wall has doorway (Wth 0.9m) near W end, only inside edges of which survive; described by Windele in 1850s (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 15) as 'plain unornamented ope, with a flat lintel'. West gable has central window with single ogee-headed light, set high up on wall. Gable otherwise obscured but photograph of c. 1914 (Moore 1914, 205) shows remains of bellcot atop gable and limestone coping stones similar to those at Carrigdownane (14552), Aghacross (14416) and Ballydeloughy (14391); photograph also shows carved human face on 'a cut caveto stone' at angle of gable (Grove White ibid.). Remains of parish church of Derryvillane; probably late medieval in date. Rector for church mentioned in 1503 (MacCotter and Nicholls 1996, 241); church reported 'in repair' in 1615, abandoned by 1694 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 181). A church here listed in Papal Taxation of 1291 (ibid.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-081 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On level flood plain, near E bank of Funshion River. Very little of castle survives (Cotter 1994, 102): rectangular raised area with stretch of wall (L 3m; H c. 3m) on E side, extending SW-NE; part of side of doorway, with drawbar socket, at SW end. Castle of Pigott family, forfeited by John fitzWilliam Pigott for his part in Desmond Rebellion (MacCotter and Nicholls 1996, 247). Included in grant to Arthur Hyde in 1588 (Healy 1988, 412). Said to have been burnt in 1641 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 17). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-082 House - vernacular house
  Description

  On W side of road, to E of Derryvillane church and graveyard (14416, 14573). Front (S) of 5 bays, off-centre door to right with projecting jambs. Hipped roof with thatch; off-centre chimney to right; later brick chimney in W end wall. Addition to rear. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level tillage. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842, 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site; trivallate circular enclosure visible as cropmark of three fosses in aerial photograph (CASAP). Linear cropmark of fosses forming two slightly curving parallel lines extended E from E side of enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-123 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In tillage. According to local information, spread of burnt material visible when field was ploughed. Evidence for site not visible under stubble. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-147 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of arc (C c. 30m) of fosse (E->W) on S side of levelled field fence, visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Roughly evenly spaced parallel linear cropmarks noted to S, c. 45m apart, may be levelled field boundaries. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with recent pitched roof house attached to rear (south) linked by timber-framed conservatory. Hipped thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Painted rendered walls, with slight batter. Square-headed window openings with painted tooled limestone sills having replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement half-glazed timber battened door approached by rendered step. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, coursed sandstone and limestone rubble walls, square-headed window and door openings with timber lintels and timber fittings, including timber battened single- and double-leaf doors. L-plan multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to west, having single-bay single-storey with loft addition to south, pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls, square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings, including some timber battened doors. Coursed limestone rubble and painted roughcast rendered boundary walls to site, terminating in square-plan piers with curved caps having single- and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• Bealalaboga Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge, erected c. 1810, over River Funshion. Dressed limestone parapet walls terminating in square-profile piers. String courses to elevations, above round arches having rusticated voussoirs and with V-cutwaters to elevations.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derryvillane · Doire Fhoibhleáin

Area

2,181,562 m² (218.16 ha, 539.08 acres)

Civil parish

Derryvillane, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Derryvillane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryvillane electoral division: 528 people in 189 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyenahan South, Ballykeating, Ballylegan, Carrigdownane Lower, Newgrove

Placenames

Derryvillane 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.