Derryreag

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryreag, from 97 m² to 890,414 m² (89.04 ha, 220.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Derryreag 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.

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the installation of a 30 metre lattice telecommunications support structure carrying antennas, dishes, remote ratio units (RRU’s) associated equipment, together with ground-based equipment cabinets, palisade fencing, cable ladder, gantry poles, concrete foundation, concrete plinths, access track and all associated site development works to provide for high-speed wireless data and broadband services

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460809

• 6 Jun 2023Refused

  THE DEVELOPMENT IN COUNTY KERRY FORMS PART OF A RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT COMPRISING A FIVE-TURBINE WIND FARM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS ON LANDS IN BOTH COUNTIES CORK AND KERRY. THE DEVELOPMENT IN COUNTY KERRY WILL CONSIST OF UPGRADE OF EXISTING FOREST ACCESS ROADS TO INCLUDE PASSING BAYS AND ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE, WORKS AT THE ENTRANCE TO AN EXISTING FOREST ROAD ACCESSED OFF THE N22 TO INCLUDE LOCALISED WIDENING OF THE FOREST ROAD AND CREATION OF A SPLAYED ENTRANCE, REMOVAL OF EXISTING VEGETATION FOR VISIBILITY SPLAYS AND REMOVAL OF STREET FURNITURE. ADVISORY NOTE: A PLANNING APPLICATION IS BEING LODGED WITH CORK COUNTY COUNICL IN RELATION TO THE ELEMENTS IN THE PROJECT THAT ARE WITHIN THE TOWNLANDS OF INCHAMORE, MILLEENY AND DERREENALING COUNTY CORK. THIS DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES FIVE WIND TURBINES, UNDERGROUND CABLING, SITE ACCESS ROADS, A BORROW PIT, A TEMPORARY SITE COMPOUND, A 38KV SUBSTATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS FOR WHICH A TEN-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION IS BEING SOUGHT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23646

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

• KE076-012 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on an E-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Clydagh River. A roughly oval enclosure (c. 8m NW-SE; c. 4m NE-SW) is indicated on the 1894-5 OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE076-063 Bridge
  Description

  A disused road bridge (Wth 7.6m; long axis NW-SE) spanning the Silhernane stream. It is very overgrown and difficult to access. The single segmental arch has cut-stone voussoirs. Only the NW parapet survives and is of random rubble with concrete coping. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE076-064 Bridge
  Description

  A road bridge (Wth 7.2m; long axis E-W) spanning a tributary of the Clydagh River. The downstream face is heavily overgrown; the sides of the abutments are of random ashlar. The single segmental arch (span 6.2m) has cut and dressed voussoirs. The bridge has recently been extended in width on the upstream (N) side. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE076-066 Kiln - lime
  Description

  In pasture, built into a W-facing slope on the W side of a minor road. A heavily overgrown mid/late 19th-century limekiln. The random rubble sandstone front wall (Wth c. 2.2m; H c. 3.8m) faces W. The central lintelled recess (H c. 2m; Wth 1.3m; D 2.4m) has sloping slabs to the rear. The funnel (diam. c. 1.4m) is stone lined. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE086-002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  In a mixture of rough hill pasture and forestry, on a SE-facing slope. In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O'Connell noted an ancient trackway here (SMR file). The area is obscured by dense forest and overgrowth and the trackway is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE086-007 Megalithic structure
  Description

  In a coniferous wood, on the NE-facing slopes of Inchimore Mountain. An irregular-shaped structure (1.75m NE-SW; 1.4m NW-SE) of boulder-type stones, roofed with stone lintels, on top of which is a mound of smaller stones. There is a small, partially collapsed chamber (H 1m) within this structure with an entrance on the E side. Another similar structure (2m N-S; 1.3m E-W) lies c. 2m to the S. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Derryreag.

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

Name

Derryreag · Doire Réidh

Area

4,614,308 m² (461.43 ha, 1,140.22 acres)

Civil parish

Killaha, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Clydagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clydagh electoral division: 125 people in 49 households; 79% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonkeen, Cummeenavrick, Derreenaling (Co. Cork), Derrymaclavlode, Inchamore (Co. Cork)

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derryreag 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.