Derrynine
Townland in the civil parish of Fontstown, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare; in Irish Doire an Oighinn
- Area
- 112.7 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 82,229 m² (8.22 ha, 20.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynine, from 3,439 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres) to 368,920 m² (36.89 ha, 91.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derrynine 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
No planning application touches the townland of Derrynine 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- KD031-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
In lowlying level, improved pasture, drained immediately to the N by the W-flowing Finnery River, and formerly immediately to the S where the track of an infilled field drain is visible. A slightly raised D-shaped area (diam. 41m E-W) with a straight N side (L 32m) truncated by the Finnery River is defined NNE--S-NNW by a long low scarp (H 0.4-1m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 01 October 2013
- KD031-034 Enclosure
Description
In level tillage. Originally identified as a cropmark on a high altitude aerial photograph (GSI N 222-1) and visible on a 2010 OSi Orthophoto as the cropmark of two widely spaced fosses (est. Wth apart c. 20m) enclosing a large rectangular area (est. max. ext. L c. 120m ESE-WNW; Wth c. 90m ENE-WSW). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 09 October 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrynine.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Derrynine.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrynine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Derrynine · Doire an Oighinn
- Area
- 1,126,629 m² (112.66 ha, 278.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fontstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Fontstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Fontstown electoral division: 456 people in 144 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardellis Lower, Boley Little, Clarey, Gorteen Lower, Rathconnell, Rathconnellwood
- Placenames
- Derrynine 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.