Derreen

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 384 m² to 223,055 m² (22.31 ha, 55.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Derreen 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.

• 30 May 2023Refused

  THE CONSTRCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, OUTBUILDING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS INCLUDING SERVICES AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23622

• 8 Jun 2020Conditional

  (A) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES MADE TO THE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH A PORTION OF THE EXISTING EXTENSION, (C) PERMISSION TO EXTEND AND MAKE ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE DWELLING HOUSE AND (D) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE HOUSE, SITE ENTRANCE AND PARKING AREA WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20484

• 7 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN ECO FRIENDLY TURF ROOFED COMMUNITY BUS SHELTER/LOCKABLE CYCLE RACK OF WOODEN CONSTRUCTION WITH FIXED SEATING IN ONE HALF OF THE SHELTER AND LOCKABLE CYCLE STORAGE IN THE OTHER HALF , TO PROVIDE SHELTER FOR PEOPLE USING AMENITIES IN LAURAGH AND AVAILING OF PUBLIC OR SCHOOL TRANSPORT. PLANTED EXTERNALLY WITH POLLINATOR FRIENDLY PLANTING WITH WOODEN PLANTERS AT THE FRONT TO PROVIDE A BARRIER BETWEEN PARKING VEHICLES AND THE SHELTER. DRINKING FOUNTAIN TO BE INSTALLED ALONG SIDE THE SHELTER.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20108

• 4 Feb 2020Refused

  (A) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE THE DWELLING HOUSE BEING RETAINED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2080

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158

Recorded monuments

• KE108-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on an elevation in Derreen Wood. A roughly circular raised area (29.1m E-W; 26.5m N-S) defined by large horizontally laid stones (H 0.45m) W-NW and elsewhere by a badly eroded scarp. Some earthen material from the top of the scarp has spilled onto the area outside the rath. The surface of the interior is uneven. A souterrain (KE108-010001-) is situated in the W sector. The rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-010001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE108-010----). A collapsed entrance in the W half of the rath leads to a chamber which extends to the N. The chamber comprises side-walls (H 0.9m) of uncoursed rubble roofed with lintels (min. Wth 1.3m), some of which are in a precarious position. The floor level in the chamber appears to drop as it continues to the N. Accumulating debris, including stone from the collapsing side-walls, obscures the interior of the chamber. At the SW corner of the chamber, a possible side-chamber extends to the W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-064 Church
  Description

  On roadside c. 100m N of Lauragh Bridge (KE108-065----). Cruciform church (long axis NE-SW), rendered and much modernised. Lit by narrow pointed lights with main door within recent porch at SE end of NE wall of nave. Second door in SE wall of SW transept. Lean-to sacristy at the NW end of the chancel. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-074 House - vernacular house
  Description

  An isolated one-storey gable-ended house. The front (NE-facing) is of four bays. The door, which is within a gabled porch, is off-centre to the left. It is flanked by a single window to the left and two to the right, all with hood-mouldings and sheet glass sash windows. There is a sash-framed loft window with glazing bars in each gable end. The chimney is off-centre to the left. The walls are plastered. There is a lean-to addition to the rear. The cottage is possibly associated with Derreen House, c. 1.5km to the W. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Killian's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, built c. 1870, comprising three-bay nave, single-bay double-height transepts to east and to west elevations and two-bay full-height chancel to north gable end. Extensively renovated, in latter part of twentieth century and single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added to east elevation on a triangular plan. Pitched concrete tile roof roofs with projecting verges. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Single lancets to nave and triple lancets to west front and transepts, having painted stone sills, render reveals and coloured glass leaded panels. Pointed arched doorways with render surrounds. Partly exposed scissor trusses to interior. Pointed arched double arches to transepts. Roughcast wall and rendered piers added to site.

• Derreen House, house, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan double-pile four-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1865, designed by J.F. Fuller. Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, pre-1750. Single-bay two-storey gabled projecting entrance bay to front having pointed-arch open internal porch and single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay to right. Two-bay two-storey over part-raised basement side elevation to west with single-bay single-storey canted projecting glazed porch approached by flight of steps. Three-bay two-storey over raised basement lower return to rear to north. Burnt in 1922. Extensively reconstructed, 1925-1926. Pitched slate roofs with projecting verges and rendered chimneystacks, those to west wing with corbelling. Painted roughcast rendered walls with overhanging gables having mock half-timbering and projecting eaves band. Painted stone sills to timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows. Timber external shutter boxes to second floor of west wing. Glazed and panelled door with architrave to porch approached by limestone steps. Retaining interior features. Attached four-bay single-storey outbuilding at right angles to east. Detached three-bay single-storey conservatory, built c. 1925, to north-east. Detached four-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, built c. 1865, to south-east retaining original fenestration with hood mouldings over openings and two-bay single-storey return to rear to north, now in commercial use. Gateway, built c. 1865, to south-east comprising pair of rendered piers with wrought-iron gates.

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 Derreen.

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 Derreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Derreen · An Doirín

Area

1,158,423 m² (115.84 ha, 286.25 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Ardea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardea electoral division: 193 people in 85 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cummers West, Derryconnery, Dromerkeen, Lauragh Lower

Placenames

Derreen 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.