Derryvrin
Derryvrin is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcaragh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Doire Bhroin.
- Area
- 153.2 ha
- 378 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 4,031 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryvrin, from 19 m² to 274,256 m² (27.43 ha, 67.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Derryvrin 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
25 Feb 2026Conditional
Permission to alter and extend the existing dwelling with a single storey extension to the side to form a new Dependent Relative Accommodation Unit. A single storey extension to the rear, material alterations to the front of the existing building and all associated site works, servicing and landscaping
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660149
4 Apr 2025N/a
Permission to alter and extend the existing dwelling with a single storey extension to the side & a single storey extension to the rear, material alterations to the front of the existing building and all associated site works, servicing and landscaping all at DERREVRIN, ABBEYDORNEY, CO KERRY.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560255
15 Mar 2023Conditional
RETAIN (A) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO FRONT, (B) EXISTING ATTIC CONVERSION, (C) EXISTING TIMBER EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING, (D) RETAIN EXISTING TIMBER SHED TO REAR OF DWELLING
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23279
19 Jul 2022Conditional
A WASTE FACILITY FOR THE IMPORATION OF WASTE MATERIAL, SPECIFICALLY INERT WASTE MATERIAL COMPRISING OF SOILS AND STONES FROM CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION SITES (EWC CODE 17 05 04), ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, FOR THE PURPOSES OF FILLING AND RAISING LANDS FOR LAND RECLAMATION. THE DEVELOPMENT IS A DEVELOPMENT RELATED TO AN ACTIVITY REQUIRING AN APPLICATION FOR A WASTE PERMIT. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT (EIAR), APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT (AA) AND NATURAL IMPACT STATMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION OR PURCHASE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22769
9 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SERIES OF EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS, SERVICING AND LANDSCAPING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19937
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derryvrin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryvrin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derryvrin.
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 Derryvrin, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_121 (ZIP).
- 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 Derryvrin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Derryvrin · Doire Bhroin
- Area
- 1,531,702 m² (153.17 ha, 378.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Ballincloher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 461 people lived in 171 households in the Ballincloher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghacoora, Aghanacrinna, Ballincloher, Ballyhenry, Gortadrislig, Granshagh, Killaspicktarvin, Rathscannel, Tonaknock
- Placenames
- Derryvrin 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.