Derdimus
Townland in the civil parish of Castleinch or Inchyolaghan, barony of Shillelogher, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Doire Díomais
- Area
- 53.3 ha
- 132 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 1,352 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derdimus, from 24 m² to 135,231 m² (13.52 ha, 33.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Derdimus 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
28 Jul 2026N/a
for the redevelopment of the Derdimus Park site to include upgrade of the existing grass pitch to a new full size Astro Pitch (100 x 66m) with associated Drainage, Flood Lighting, Fencing and Ball Stop Netting and all associated site development works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660475
6 Nov 2023Refused
to construct a dwelling house, installation of a treatment system and percolation area with entrance off the existing Tinnypark Nursing Home access road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360505
6 Oct 2023Conditional
for a detached Dwelling and detached garage, new vehicular entrance to L66971-3 public road, new on-site septic tank with connection to public foul mains for pumping treated effluent as well as the decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation for the adjacent dwelling and provision of upgraded on-site domestic wastewater treatment system to include new septic tank and connection to public mains for pumping treated effluent and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2360444
9 Feb 2023Conditional
for alterations and extensions to existing house to include for (i) new flat roofed front porch, (ii) new box window to front of house with pitch roof (iii) new side and rear extension to incorporate new kitchen, utility room and living area with partial flat roof, partial pitched roof together with all associated site works to our property located
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360044
15 Nov 2022Refused
to construct a dwelling house, installation of a treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22733
14 Jun 2017Conditional
permission for the following works:-Construction of 2 No. single storey residential buildings each consisting of 2 No. one bedroom residence with central support accommodation unit, and construction of 3 No. one bedroom stand alone residences along with all associated site and ancillary works. All residential units are intended for use by persons requiring varying degrees third party care and assistance. Tinnypark House is a protected structure RPS Ref: C388 and listed on the NIAH Main Record (12401903).
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17394
3 Apr 2017Conditional
for a change of use from holiday apartments to staff accommodation including the following works - Demolition of a number of non-original internal walls, floors, partitions etc, - Provision of 3 new door opens to the rear of the building, - Construction of an extension to the side of the building to provide a new plant/store room and all associated site and ancillary works. Tinnypark House is a protected structure RPS Ref: C388 and listed on the NIAH Main Record (12401903)
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17210
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 Derdimus.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derdimus.
Architectural heritage
- Tinnypark House, house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey Classical-style house with dormer attic, reconstructed 1812, possibly over basement incorporating fabric of earlier house, 1774, with (single-storey) prostyle tetrastyle pedimented Tuscan portico to ground floor, and two-bay single-storey recessed lateral wings having single-bay single-storey gabled advanced bays. Undergoing extensive renovation, 2004-5. Hipped gabled roof (pitched to wings incorporating gabled sections to advanced bays) with replacement artificial slate, 2004, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rooflights, 2004, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves (overhanging eaves to main block). Painted replacement rendered walls, 2004-5, with rendered quoins to corners to main block having vermiculated panels, rendered channelled piers to corners to remainder, rendered bands to eaves, and paired rendered stringcourses to gables enclosing rectangular recessed panels. Square-headed window openings (some in tripartite arrangement) with cut-limestone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, timber panelled pilaster mullions to tripartite openings, replacement six-over-six (two-over-two sidelights to tripartite openings) and three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows, 2004-5. Square-headed door opening under prostyle tetrastyle pedimented Tuscan portico on four cut-limestone steps (having paired cut-limestone columns with responsive pilasters supporting frieze having central panel, and carved cut-limestone surround to pediment) with carved cut-limestone surround, and glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with entrance hall having limestone flagged floor, and round-headed door opening into stairhall having carved timber staircase. Set back from road in own grounds with pair of panelled piers having stringcourses supporting pyramidal capping incorporating floral motif, and rendered flanking boundary wall having coping.(ii) Detached ten-bay two-storey stable outbuilding, dated 1812, to east on an L-shaped plan about a courtyard comprising six-bay two-storey range with two-bay two-storey gabled central bay, and four-bay two-storey perpendicular range to left originally having pair of elliptical-headed carriageways. Extensively renovated, pre-2004, with carriageways remodelled to accommodate use as apartments. Hipped roof on an L-shaped plan with replacement artificial slate, pre-2004, having courses of red slate, clay ridge tiles, profiled timber bargeboards to gable having finial to apex, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, pre-2004, on red brick eaves. Random rubble limestone walls with cut-stone plaque to gable. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, red brick voussoirs, and replacement timber casement windows, pre-2004. Square-headed door openings with squared limestone voussoirs, and replacement glazed timber panelled double doors, pre-2004, having overlights. Pair of elliptical-headed carriageways remodelled, pre-2004, with rubble stone infill accommodating square-headed window openings having cut-limestone sills, shared lintel, timber casement windows, and dressed limestone voussoirs to outline of carriageways. Set about a courtyard with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter having elliptical-headed carriageway in limestone ashlar frontispiece, limestone ashlar voussoirs, no fittings, square-headed flanking pedestrian gateway having limestone ashlar voussoirs, and no fittings.(iii) Walled garden, post-1812, with random rubble stone boundary wall having elliptical-headed carriageway in rubble stone frontispiece, red brick voussoirs, and remains of iron fittings.
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 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2169 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derdimus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Derdimus · Doire Díomais
- Area
- 532,813 m² (53.28 ha, 131.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleinch or Inchyolaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Electoral division
- Grange, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Grange electoral division: 903 people in 285 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Archersleas, Baunreagh, Castleinch or Inchyolaghan, Goslingstown, Parkmore, Raheenapisha, Shellumsrath
- Placenames
- Derdimus 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.