# Derk, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Duagh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Deirc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,647,586 m² (164.76 ha, 407.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,710 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Duagh, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/duagh.md - Barony: Clanmaurice - Electoral division: Moynsha, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 493 people lived in 183 households in the Moynsha electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24130 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70994 - Centre: latitude 52.37057, longitude -9.388778 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derk, from 11 m² to 604,337 m² (60.43 ha, 149.33 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1227558: 604,337 m² (60.43 ha, 149.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1227558.md - Parcel 1203470: 167,933 m² (16.79 ha, 41.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203470.md - Parcel 1246882: 151,483 m² (15.15 ha, 37.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246882.md - Parcel 5218571: 146,145 m² (14.61 ha, 36.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5218571.md - Parcel 1141703: 135,351 m² (13.54 ha, 33.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1141703.md - Parcel 4269529: 90,334 m² (9.03 ha, 22.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269529.md - Parcel 4269506: 46,446 m² (4.64 ha, 11.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269506.md - Parcel 4269524: 43,835 m² (4.38 ha, 10.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269524.md - Parcel 1221141: 37,083 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1221141.md - Parcel 4269515: 36,245 m² (3.62 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269515.md - Parcel 3847277: 35,492 m² (3.55 ha, 8.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3847277.md - Parcel 4269519: 34,569 m² (3.46 ha, 8.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269519.md - Parcel 1246879: 28,211 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246879.md - Parcel 3847276: 14,873 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3847276.md - Parcel 1246883: 11,868 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246883.md - Parcel 1227559: 11,309 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1227559.md - Parcel 1246880: 10,223 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246880.md - Parcel 1221140: 7,710 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1221140.md - Parcel 1199062: 7,238 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199062.md - Parcel 1203472: 5,382 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203472.md - Parcel 4269502: 4,248 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269502.md - Parcel 1203471: 3,883 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203471.md - Parcel 1147754: 3,761 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1147754.md - Parcel 1246881: 3,182 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246881.md - Parcel 1141704: 2,402 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1141704.md - Parcel 1225273: 1,924 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225273.md - Parcel 1203473: 1,922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203473.md - Parcel 1154505: 1,834 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1154505.md - Parcel 2844141: 1,265 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2844141.md - Parcel 5218566: 1,077 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5218566.md - Parcel 2844145: 347 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2844145.md - Parcel 3847278: 332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3847278.md - Parcel 5218550: 62 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5218550.md - Parcel 5775185: 35 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5775185.md - Parcel 5775187: 11 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5775187.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derk in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 Sept 2026, Kerry County Council 2660849: N/a. Permission. the construction of two-storey detached dwelling house and single storey detached domestic garage, new on site waste water treatment system, Bored well as water supply, construction of vehicular entrance & all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660849/0 - 22 Apr 2021, Kerry County Council 21437: Conditional. Permission. DEMOLISH OLD HAY SHED, CONSTRUCT ON THE SAME SITE AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH CALF PENNING, CENTRAL PASSAGE, EFFLUENT CHANNELS, SLATTED TANK FOR SEEPAGE COLLECTION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21437/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derk. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derk. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derk. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Derk, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Derk. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derk.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derk.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derk.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ahane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ahane-70032.md - Knockalougha: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockalougha.md - Meenanare: https://everytownland.com/kerry/meenanare.md - Meennahorna: https://everytownland.com/kerry/meennahorna.md - Meenscovane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/meenscovane.md - Rylane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rylane.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derk - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/derk