Derreen

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 92 m² to 383,330 m² (38.33 ha, 94.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

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.

• 6 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22724

• 28 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17172

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• KE049-054 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE049-055 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE050-001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982) Date of upload: 7 January 2012

• KE050-002 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. An irregularly shaped sandstone boulder (L 2.05m; Wth 1.8m; H 0.95m). When visited in 1985 it was lying prostrate in a small hollow. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 25 January 2013

• KE050-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreen.

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

At the centre of the townland of Derreen, 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 high, 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 Derreen.

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.

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

4,173,341 m² (417.33 ha, 1,031.26 acres)

Civil parish

Ballincuslane, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Derreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

204 people lived in 70 households in the Derreen electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adraval, Knockdown, Knockeennahone, Knockrower West, Knockyeala, Leaha, Mullen

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.