Derrylahan

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Derrylahan, from 1,026,889 m² (102.69 ha, 253.75 acres) to 1,026,889 m² (102.69 ha, 253.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Derrylahan 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 Derrylahan 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

• KE083-004 Enclosure
  Description

  On boggy, S sloping pasture, N of the Owenreagh river. A crudely built, circular enclosure (KE083-004----) with a paved turf-platform in its interior. D: 5.8m x 5.5m. H: .5m. T: .7m. Nearby at E the incomplete outline of a rough enclosure. D: 4.7m. 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. 1252. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE083-004001 Enclosure
  Description

  On boggy, S sloping pasture, N of the Owenreagh river. A crudely built, circular enclosure (KE083-004----) with a paved turf-platform in its interior. D: 5.8m x 5.5m. H: .5m. T: .7m. Nearby at E the incomplete outline of a rough enclosure KE083-004001-. D: 4.7m. 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. 1252. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE083-062 Enclosure
  Description

  Overlooking the Owenreagh river valley, this ruined enclosure, not marked on the OS maps, is situated on a small ledge on a S facing slope. Internally it measures 10.2m x 9.1m, and its roughly built drystone enclosing wall survives .4m high and 1m 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. 735. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE083-063 Enclosure
  Description

  Above an area of forestry on the N side of the Owcnreagh river. A crudely built circular enclosure which incorporates a massive boulder on its N side. A paved turf-platform located in its interior. D: 5.7m x 5.2m. H: .7m. 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. 1253. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE083-073 Hut site
  Description

  A short distance N of the Owenreagh river and W of an area of forestry. A stone and earth hut of circular plan. D: 4.5m x 3.8m. H: .3m. 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. 1254. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE083-074 Hut site
  Description

  Above an area of forestry on the N side of the Owen-reagh river. A well-built drystone hut of circular plan with an entrance at SE, .58m wide. D: 3.1m x 2.9m. H: .8m. 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. 1255. 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 Derrylahan.

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 Derrylahan.

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

Name

Derrylahan · Doire Leathan

Area

1,025,805 m² (102.58 ha, 253.48 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Dunloe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Crossderry, Derryard, Derrylea, Derrynafunsha, Eirk

Placenames

Derrylahan 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.