Derrycarna

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycarna, from 2,006 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 2,866,793 m² (286.68 ha, 708.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Derrycarna 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derrycarna 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.

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

• KE073-006001 Hut site
  Description

  One of a cluster of six hut sites located at the source of a S flowing tributary of the Gearhameen river, on the higher SW slopes of Drishana mountain. In poorly drained, rocky terrain, an oval structure revetted with uprights. D: 8m x 4.5m. H: .65m. T: 1.2m. 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. 1245. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-006002 Hut site
  Description

  One of a cluster of six huts. A roughly constructed circular foundation built into the gradient of the slope. D: 3.55m. H: .65m. T: 1.2m. 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. 1246. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-006003 Hut site
  Description

  One of a cluster of six huts. Subcircular foundations of a drystone hut. D: 2.8m x 2.4m. H: .25m. T: .85m. 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. 1247. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-006004 Hut site
  Description

  One of a cluster of six huts. Subcircular drystone foundations. D: 3.4m x 2.5m. H: .6m. T: 1m. 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. 1248. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-006005 Hut site
  Description

  One of a cluster of six huts. Collapsed foundations of a subcircular hut with a gap, .55m wide, at NW. D: 5.1m x 4.2m. H: .35m. T: .7m. 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. 1249. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-006006 Hut site
  Description

  One of a cluster of six huts. A D-shaped hut of rough construction, abutting an old field wall at W. An entrance gap at NE, .75m wide. D: 2.9m x 2.4m. H: 15m. T: 1m. The field wall, partly submerged beneath the boggy surface, measures c. 150m long and averages .6m wide and .6m high. 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. 1250. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE073-006007 Field boundary
  Description

  For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 401, no. 1250). 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

• KE073-024 Hut site
  Description

  A short distance NW of the previous group is a drystone hut of subcircular plan. The entrance at SW, .8m wide, features one in situ portal; its partner is collapsed. D: 1.9m x 3.4m. H: .3m. T: .9m. 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. 1251. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Derrycarna, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Derrycarna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Derrycarna · Doire Chearnaigh

Area

5,829,116 m² (582.91 ha, 1,440.41 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Dunloe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

862 people lived in 324 households in the Dunloe electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alohart, Cloghernoosh, Coolcummisk, Derrygarriv, Derrylooscaunagh, Dunloe Upper, Meallis

Placenames

Derrycarna 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.