Derryquin

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryquin, from 22 m² to 1,724,720 m² (172.47 ha, 426.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Derryquin 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.

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain ( 1 ) the single storey Sun Lounge Extension to the Southeastern Elevation ( Front ) of Existing Hotel Building. ( 2 ) The Alterations to the Southwestern Elevation ( Side ) of Existing Sun Lounge. ( 3 ) the two storey Service Building Extension to Northeastern Elevation ( Side ) of Existing Hotel, and Planning Permission for Alterations to Northeastern Elevation ( Side ) of Existing Sun Lounge. The development consists of or comprises of works to a protected structure ( Protected Structure , RPS-KY-0861, NIAH ref. 21310003 )

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561145

• 8 Sept 2025Conditional

  Retention permission to retain existing dwelling, garden sheds & pergola and site layout as-built including all associated site works and services to facilitate this development within revised site boundaries

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560794

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21708

• 4 Apr 2018Conditional

  RETAIN EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLLING. CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING , CONSTRUCT GARAGE AND TO CONSTRUCT NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT.

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18305

• 7 Dec 2017Conditional

  RETAIN HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171211

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A CONSERVATORY EXTENSION TO THE EAST SIDE OF DWELLING, THIS DWELLING IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURES REF: 100-12 UNDER K.C.C.'S LIST OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES IN THE CO. DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2015 - 2021

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17875

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: Old Domestic Building, Askive Wood SAC 002098
• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Old Domestic Building, Askive Wood 002098

Recorded monuments

• KE100-046 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Possible holy well dedicated to St. Anne situated in woodland area 17m ENE of the E shoreline of Askive Lough. Location of well indicated on 1892 ed. OSi 25-inch map. A small lake, titled 'Askive Lough' on the OS maps but known locally as Hollywood Lake, is located in Askive Wood on the N side of the main Sneem-Kenmare road. It occurs in low-lying ground SW of Knockanamadane and is virtually inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth around its shores. A pattern was formerly held at the lake on July 8th, beginning on the preceding evening (Ó Cíobháin 1984b, 17-18). The rounds, which consisted of making three circuits of the lake while reciting prayers, began and ended at a holly tree whose shape resembled a woman. It was customary for the pilgrims to stick pins and coins into the trunk of the tree, as well as to tie rags to its branches. They also brought home some of the lake water. The pattern day was known as 'the morning of the lake'. Graves noted that pilgrims travelled long distances to avail of the lake waters' 'miraculous power', which was particularly efficacious in curing 'sores' (1930, 117). Folk tradition associates 'floating islands' with the lake, a connection shared with Loch Mackeenlaun at Kilmakilloge, on the opposite side of Kenmare Bay. This was also the location of a pattern held on July 8th, and large numbers of people crossed the bay from the Sneem district to attend it (Lyne 1989, 31-33). Askive Lake is alternatively known as Anne's Lake (local information) and a nearby holy well, now closed in, was known as St Anne's well or Hollywood well. According to one of Ó Cíobhain's informants it was here, and not at the lake, that the pattern was held (1984b, 19). Local tradition relegates Anne to penal times and associates her with a nearby mass-rock called Com an Aifrinn. There are numerous versions of the tale of her encounter with Redcoats hunting a local priest, and of her subsequent drowning at their hands (local information; Lyne 1989, 31-2; Ó Cíobháin 1984b, 18). Lyne suggests that the lake's association with St Anne may evidence a pre-Christian veneration to the goddess Áine (1989, 32). The Hollywood pattern may have originally been a Lughnasa festival. See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke. 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. 1064. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 May 2022

Architectural heritage

• Glashnacree House, house, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, built 1850, on a cruciform plan with single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront; two-bay two-storey double-pile return (north). Set in landscaped grounds with red brick piers supporting wrought iron double gates. The home of Thomas Harnett Fuller (1806-86) and inherited by his son, James Franklin Fuller (1835-1924), architect (see 21310003).

• Parknasilla Hotel, hotel, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached twelve-bay three-storey with dormer attic Baronial style former railway hotel, built 1895, designed by J.F. Fuller. Now in use as hotel. Comprising six-bay three-storey central block with two-bay three-storey gabled advanced flanking bays and two-bay two-storey end bay with half-dormer attic to left. Four-bay three-storey side elevation to south with single-bay four-storey tower to centre on a square plan having pyramidal roof. Five-bay three-storey side elevation with dormer attic to north having four-bay two-storey return to north. Renovated and extended to north in late twentieth century, comprising nine-bay two-storey wing with dormer attic at right angles with series of two-bay single-storey glazed projecting bays added to main block. Steeply pitched slate roof with gable stone copings, ball-on-pedestal finials, snecked rock-hewn chimneystacks with entablatures, lead-clad turret with sprockets to eaves and weathervane. Random rubble stone walls with green limestone and grey ashlar quoins, moulded string courses and eaves band. Grey limestone lintels, sills and reveals to timber sliding sash windows with subdividing panes to upper sliding sash windows. Swept arch to doorway with keystone, moulded head, timber double-leaf door, glazed overpanel and side panels. Retaining interior features.

• Derryquin Castle, walled garden, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of walled garden, built c. 1840, about a courtyard with battlemented parapet. Rubble stone walls having squared quoins and cemented castellations. Attached three-bay two-storey stone-built pavilion block, built c. 1840, with lancet arch openings and battlemented parapet. Now ruinous. Set in demesne of Derryquin Castle built pre-1772, burnt in 1922 and demolished in 1969. Pitch and putt course laid out in garden to site.

• Derryquin Castle, gate lodge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, built c. 1880, having single-bay single-storey canted projecting bay to left. Steeply pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, ashlar chimneystack and projecting eaves and verges. Random rubble stone walls. Painted sills and render reveals to timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows. Gateway, built c. 1880, to south comprising pair of rock-hewn limestone ashlar piers with stile to south.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_40 (ZIP).

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

Name

Derryquin · Doire Coinche

Area

2,835,559 m² (283.56 ha, 700.68 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Sneem, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Sneem electoral division: 836 people in 272 households; 62% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ankail, Derreenaclaurig, Drimna More, Rossdohan, Tahilla

Placenames

Derryquin 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.