Derreenafoyle

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreenafoyle, from 14 m² to 1,015,970 m² (101.6 ha, 251.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Derreenafoyle 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.

• 26 Oct 2025Conditional

  The development consists of (a) retention planning permission to retain a garden shed as constructed, and (b) permission to construct a single storey extension on the eastern side of the house and for all associated site works to facilitate this development.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560983

• 19 May 2025Conditional

  The development consists of (a) permission to make elevational changes to the dwelling house, (b) permission to construct an extension to the side of the dwelling house and (c) permission for all ancillary works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560418

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  (a) retain the existing utility room as constructed to the rear of the existing dwelling house, (b) retain the existing Sunroom as constructed to the front of the existing dwelling house, (c) retain alterations to the existing dwelling house, (d) retain the existing garage as built and located on the site , (e) retain the existing separate private studio building as built and located on the site and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2560098

• 22 Jan 2025N/a

  INVALID -(a) retain the existing utility room as constructed to the rear of the existing dwelling house, (b) retain alterations to the existing dwelling house, (c) retain alterations to the existing garage, (d) retain the separate private studio building as built and located on the site and all associated works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560026

• 10 Apr 2024Conditional

  (a) demolish the existing domestic garage, (b) construct a new domestic garage, machinery shed and boat shed for their own personal use and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460207

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  Retention permission to retain existing extension as-built to rear of existing dwelling including all associated site works to facilitate this development

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460145

• 17 Apr 2023Refused

  RESTORATION, RENOVATION AND TWO STOREY EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING 1.5 STOREY DWELLING (A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, REF: RPS-KY-0388), REMOVAL OF MODERN SHED STRUCTURES TO REAR, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23412

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: Blackwater River (Kerry) SAC 002173
• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Old Domestic Building, Derreenafoyle 002042

Recorded monuments

• KE092-029 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  Two stones, one prostrate, are located on a prominent rise in a marshy area about 370m W of the Blackwater river. Triangular in basal section, the upright stone stands 2.45m high and tapers slightly towards a flat top. It measures .8m x .47m at base; NNE-SSW. The prostrate slab lies in dense overgrowth 1.5m to N, and measures 2.5m long and 1.35m wide (Ó Nualláin 1988,250). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 119. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE100-008 Standing stone
  Description

  This stone is situated in rocky low-lying land just E of a small river. A prostrate, rectilinear block, it measures 1.75m x .45m x .4m. Its present W end tapers to a point. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 161. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Blackwater Cottage, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey cottage ornee with dormer attic, built c. 1860, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch to centre and single-bay single-storey lean-to return to rear to north-east. Pitchedslate roof with clay ridge tiles, lead finials, overhanging eaves with decorative fascia and bargeboards. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Paired or tripled multiple paned pivoting windows with painted sills and pointed window heads. Projecting gabled open timber porch with bargeboards. Timber boarded window reveals and exposed ceiling joists to interior. Detached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted outbuilding with dormer attic, built c. 1860, to north-west with four-bay side elevations. Gateway, built c. 1860, to south-west comprising pair of rendered piers with decorative wrought-iron gates. Gateway, built c. 1860, to south-west comprising pair of rendered piers with wrought-iron double 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 Derreenafoyle.

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

Name

Derreenafoyle · Doirín an Phoill

Area

3,544,358 m² (354.44 ha, 875.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Tahilla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tahilla electoral division: 239 people in 91 households; 83% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 38% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doon, Dromore, Dromore Old, Maulcallee

Placenames

Derreenafoyle 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.