Derrindaff
Derrindaff is a townland in the civil parish of Duagh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 310.6 ha
- 768 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 8,817 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrindaff, from 14 m² to 297,629 m² (29.76 ha, 73.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Derrindaff 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
15 Oct 2025Conditional
Permission to construct an extension to slatted cubicle house complete with slatted tanks on site of existing open slurry tank complete with new slats, external agitation points, a slurry duct, feed passage, feed barriers and silage base, manure pit, slurry tower with reception tank and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560942
8 May 2020Conditional
ERECT A DOMESTIC UTILITY SHEAD AT REAR OF HIS DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20420
8 May 2020Conditional
ERECT DOMESTIC UTILITY SHED AT THE REAR OF HIS DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20422
14 Nov 2019Conditional
DEMOLITION OF A CATTLE HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A MILKING PARLOUR COMPLEX AND CALVING/CALF HOUSE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 191161
8 Oct 2019Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH PART OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO THE NORTHERN SIDE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW REAR EXTENSION ONTO THE EXISTING DWELLING (C) ELEVATION CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE (D) INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191040
11 May 2018Conditional
ROOF EXISTING DAIRY ASSEMBLY AND HOLDING YARDS AND COW EXERCISE AND FEEDING AREA ON HIS LAND
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18438
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- KE017-010 Enclosure
Description
Marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, this site is not as clearly defined on the 1915 map. This is a small area which is enclosed by a 3m wide earthen bank rising to .5m high. The internal diameter is 10.3m N-S and 10.5m E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1073. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrindaff.
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 Derrindaff, 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 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 Derrindaff.
- 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 Derrindaff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Derrindaff
- Area
- 3,106,146 m² (310.61 ha, 767.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Rathea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 423 people lived in 166 households in the Rathea electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardydonagan, Beheens East, Furhane, Lacka West, Moyassa, Toor, Trienearagh
- Placenames
- Derrindaff 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.