Derra East
Townland in the civil parish of Galey, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Doire Thoir
- Area
- 98.7 ha
- 244 acres
- Land parcels
- 139
- registered freehold, median 1,892 m²
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
139 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derra East, from 13 m² to 259,936 m² (25.99 ha, 64.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1Agriculture
Kerry County Development Plan 2022-2028, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jun 2026N/a
REDS III: The development will consist of a 10-year permission for a solar photovoltaic (PV) energy development on a site spanning approximately 138.9 hectares. It will consist of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, 38 inverters, new access tracks, underground cabling, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, 4 temporary construction compounds, drainage infrastructure, landscaping and all ancillary electrical infrastructure and associated works. A separate application for the associated grid route and future 110kV substation will be submitted to An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP) as these proposed elements fall within the Strategic Infrastructure Development consent process under Section 182A of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).The Application Site will be accessed from four new access points off the R553, L6029 and L6028 and one existing access point off the L6037. The development is designed to operate for 40 years from the date of commissioning. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will accompany the planning application.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660506
2 May 2023Conditional
RETAIN THEIR DOMESTIC GARAGE/UTILITY STORE AS CONSTRUCTED TO THE REAR OF THEIR SITE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23475
26 Aug 2022Conditional
RETAIN HIS HOUSE, DOMESTIC STORAGE AREA/CARPORT WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES, ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22900
9 May 2022N/a
REMOVE 9.35 HECTARES OF BROADLEAF FORESTRY TO BE REPLACED BY CONIFER SPECIES. PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER THE RECONSTITUTION AND UNDERPLANTING SCHEME (ASH DIEBACK) AS OF THE DEPARMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT IS SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22477
29 Jul 2021Conditional
RETAIN COURSING FIELD FOR 3 NO. DAYS PER YEAR ALSO TO RETAIN DOG RUN AND ALL STRUCTURES WITHIN COURSING FILED
Retention · Kerry County Council, 21882
10 Jul 2020N/a
RETAIN EXISTING VIEWING STAND AND MACHINERY SHELTER, ALL ON THEIR LAND
Retention · Kerry County Council, 20612
8 May 2020N/a
RETAIN EXISTING VIEWING STAND AND MACHINERY SHELTER
Retention · Kerry County Council, 20423
11 Dec 2019Conditional
ERECT A DWELLING HOUSE, TREATMENT UNIT, SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191263
18 Jul 2017Conditional
(A) BUILD A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (B) TO BUILD A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL AT SITE 11 AND (C) TO COMPLETE EXISTING ESTATE ROAD, FOOTPATH AND SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17689
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 Derra East.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derra East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derra East.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_200 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derra East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Derra East · Doire Thoir
- Area
- 986,643 m² (98.66 ha, 243.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Galey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Listowel Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Listowel Rural electoral division: 1,654 people in 635 households; 83% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bedford, Coolnalaght, Curraghatoosane, Derra West, Gortcurreen, Shrone East, Shrone Middle
- Placenames
- Derra East 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.