Derreennageeha
Derreennageeha is a townland in the civil parish of Dromod, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Doirín na Gaoithe.
- Area
- 355.2 ha
- 878 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 821,943 m² (82.19 ha, 203.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreennageeha, from 455,938 m² (45.59 ha, 112.66 acres) to 2,276,336 m² (227.63 ha, 562.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Derreennageeha 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
No planning application touches the townland of Derreennageeha in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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: 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
- KE081-010 Hut site
Description
Marked as a sheepfold on the second edition of the OS maps, this site lies within a forestry plantation and could not be located. 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. 1433. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013
- KE081-012 Hut site
Description
Located within a forestry plantation at the head of the Inny river valley, close to a large subcircular enclosure. A roughly circular drystone corbelled hut with an entrance at S, marked by two uprights set .43m apart. D: 2.2m x 1.5m. H: 1.2m. T: .8m. 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. 1243. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013
- KE081-048001 Enclosure
Description
On uneven ground in a coniferous forest on a N-facing slope. A roughly circular area (c. 65m E-W; c. 55m N-S) enclosed by the lower courses of a partially collapsed, moss-covered, drystone wall (T 0.7m; max. H 1m). The larger stones and boulders on the lower courses protrude above the surface of bog. Forest debris obscures much of the enclosing wall. There is a hut site (KE081-048002-) in the N quadrant of the interior and another (KE081-012----) c. 10m to the N of the enclosure. 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
- KE081-048002 Hut site
Description
In the N quadrant of an enclosure (KE081-048001-). The moss-covered remains of a circular hut site (3.5m N-S; 3.4m E-W) defined by a partially collapsed drystone wall (T 0.8m; H 0.95m) with larger stones in the largely intact lower courses. Rubble is scattered along the perimeter externally. A coniferous tree grows in the interior, which is covered with rubble and debris. Another hut site (KE081-012----) lies c. 10m to the N. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreennageeha.
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 Derreennageeha, about 1 in 20 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 Derreennageeha.
- 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 Derreennageeha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Derreennageeha · Doirín na Gaoithe
- Area
- 3,552,006 m² (355.2 ha, 877.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromod, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Derriana, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coombaha, Curravaha, Dromalonhurt, Maulnabrack, Shronaloughane, Tulligealane
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Derreennageeha 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.