Derryvreen
Derryvreen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmeen (Clonakilty Ra), barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Doire Uí Bhriain.
- Area
- 153.4 ha
- 379 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 8,764 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 32
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryvreen, from 263 m² to 268,696 m² (26.87 ha, 66.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Derryvreen 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
25 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for revised boundaries for proposed dwelling and domestic garage to that permitted under Pl Reg No. 25/00357.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1063
13 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Retention of extension constructed to the side of existing dwelling which replaced outbuildings
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0350
5 Aug 2025Conditional permission
The construction of a whiskey maturation warehouse building and all ancillary site development works. Ancillary site development works include the decommissioning and replacement of an existing on-site wastewater treatment plant/water service infrastructure with a new relocated on-site wastewater treatment plant/percolation area and water service infrastructure. The proposed development will serve as an extension to the existing whiskey maturation warehouse facility permitted by Cork County Council planning reference 21/793
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/438
27 Jun 2025Conditional permission
To construct a dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/357
5 May 2023Conditional
Construct a dwelling, detached domestic garage, treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/244
17 Nov 2021Conditional
A Whiskey maturation warehouse facility. Development will consist of the construction of 3 no. warehouse buildings. Warehouse 1 and 2 are 1,032sqm each and will be used for whiskey maturation. Warehouse 3 is 614sqm will be used as a cask handling building. Development will also comprise the provision of: a new vehicular access/egress car parking; underground firewater storage tank; surface water attenuation area; water retention pond; well; sewerage treatment system; hard and soft landscaping; signage; lighting; and all site development works. A Natura Impact (NIS) has been preparted and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/793
7 Sept 2021Conditional permission
Construct a dwelling, install a treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/610
5 Aug 2021Incompleted application
To construct a dwelling, install a treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/541
9 Aug 2018Refused
To construct a dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/470
14 Nov 2017Refused
To construct a dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/714
14 Oct 2016Unconditional
Demolish all existing buildings and for the construction of 1 no. dwelling house and all associated site works.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/630
21 Feb 2011Conditional
Demolish all existing buildings and for the construction of 1 no. dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/95
26 Jun 2008Conditional
Dwelling house, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1203
15 Feb 2008Refused
Dwelling house, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/281
11 Oct 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2619
11 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Dwelling house, domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2398
24 Jul 2007Refused
Dwelling, install treatment unit and detached garage for private use
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2005
6 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Dwelling, detached garage for private use and install treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1484
15 May 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1280
26 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/852
9 Feb 2007Refused
Replace existing septic tank and percolation area with new treatment unit and percolation area serving existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/357
9 Feb 2007Refused
Dwelling, detached domestic garage for private use and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/359
29 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Replace existing septic tank and percolation area with new treatment unit and percolation area serving existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/215
29 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Dwelling, detached garage for private use and install treatment and unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/214
27 Feb 2006Conditional
Dwelling, detached garage & installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/292
The 25 most recent of 32 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 Derryvreen.
Recorded monuments
- CO121-081 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by stone bank (H 1.1m) with external fosse (D 0.4m). Pathway crosses W half of interior from N-S. 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
- CO121-087 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Arc formed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m) ENE->SE. 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
- CO121-101 Children's burial ground
Description
At a road junction. A small triangular patch of ground is known locally as a children's burial ground. The field to the N of the road junction is called 'Pairc na laniv' (the field of the 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
- CO122-056 Fulacht fia
Description
Spread of burnt material (18m N-S; 10m E-W) visible beside stream in ploughed field. 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 Derryvreen.
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 Derryvreen, 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 Derryvreen.
- 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 Derryvreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Derryvreen · Doire Uí Bhriain
- Area
- 1,533,673 m² (153.37 ha, 378.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeen (Clonakilty Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Argideen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 382 people lived in 139 households in the Argideen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Derryvreen 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.