Derreenacallaha
Derreenacallaha is a townland in the civil parish of Tuosist, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Doirín an Chalaidh.
- Area
- 116.1 ha
- 287 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 3,748 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreenacallaha, from 42 m² to 218,997 m² (21.9 ha, 54.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Derreenacallaha 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
5 Mar 2025Refused
The development consists of permission to remove the existing playground and construct a single storey activity and games building and all associated works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560150
13 Nov 2024Conditional
Retention permission to retain the existing dwelling house, garden shed, all associated site services and ancillary site works as-built on revised site layout and within revised site boundaries
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460883
28 Sept 2020Conditional
FOR (1) WORKS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE ALTERATIONS TO THE NORTH EAST ELEVATION, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF AN EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20889
25 Oct 2019Conditional
(1) DEVELOP WORKS TO AN EXISTING DWELLLING COMPRISING INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION (2) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DOMESTIC SHED (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191096
18 Jan 2018Conditional
ALTER, RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING. THE WORKS SHALL INCLUDE (1) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS (11) INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING LAYOUT (111) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING (1V) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND REPLACE IT WITH A NEW MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1824
14 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO FISH FACTORY FOR USE AS A FISH SMOKING AREA
Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 12991
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derreenacallaha.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreenacallaha.
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 Derreenacallaha, about 1 in 5 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 Derreenacallaha.
- 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 Derreenacallaha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Derreenacallaha · Doirín an Chalaidh
- Area
- 1,160,932 m² (116.09 ha, 286.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuosist, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Dawros, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 611 people lived in 226 households in the Dawros electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carks, Dawros, Feorus East
- Placenames
- Derreenacallaha 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.