Derreenfinlehid

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreenfinlehid, from 142 m² to 914,429 m² (91.44 ha, 225.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Derreenfinlehid 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.

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211035

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (A) A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, SERVICED BY A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER (B) VEHICULAR ACCESS AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201239

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE083-030 Standing stone
  Description

  This stone is situated in bog on the steep S slopes of Boughil mountain, and commands an extensive view over Kenmare Bay. Block-like in appearance, it stands 1.38m high and is roughly trapezoidal in basal plan, where it has maximum dimensions of 1.02m x .5m; NE-SW. Packing stones are apparent beneath the growth of bog at its base. The site is recorded as 'Buachaill Finnleithid' in OSNB (Derreenfinlehid, 4). 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. 165. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE083-087001 Field boundary
  Description

  A 70m long stretch of pre-bog walling extends N-S on the upper S slope of Boughil mountain. Running at right angles to it are additional stretches of walling, the longest of which measures 40m. They are chiefly composed of large boulders and they average .6m high and .75m wide. 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. 31. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE083-087002 Hut site
  Description

  About 25m to SE, on a grassy shelf, are the remnants of a circular drystone hut, 4.2m in internal diameter. Two sections of faced walling, one course high, survive, and are retained by upright slabs internally. The wall averages .25m high and .75m wide. The interior of the hut (KE083-087002-) is filled with stone and rubble. 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. 31. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derreenfinlehid.

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

Name

Derreenfinlehid · Doirín Finnleithid

Area

3,423,037 m² (342.3 ha, 845.85 acres)

Civil parish

Templenoe, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Greenane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Greenane electoral division: 226 people in 89 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gearhasallagh, Letter, Maulnahorna, Maulyneill, Slievaduff

Placenames

Derreenfinlehid 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.