Derreen
Townland in the civil parish of Fenagh, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Doirín
- Area
- 56.3 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 40,599 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 5,447 m² (0.54 ha, 1.35 acres) to 84,214 m² (8.42 ha, 20.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Derreen 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
4 Jul 2022Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing cottage type dwelling house which incorporates a mezzanine level, proposed erection of solar panels on the roof of the proposed extension together with seeking full planning permission for the proposed decommissioning of existing septic tank & soak pit that currently service the existing cottage type dwelling house and the proposed replacement of same with a suitable onsite waste water treatment system with polishing filter, boundary fence/wall and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22127
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 Derreen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derreen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreen.
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 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 Derreen.
- 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 Derreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Derreen · An Doirín
- Area
- 562,875 m² (56.29 ha, 139.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Castlefore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlefore electoral division: 237 people in 89 households; 89% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghlin, Cornabrone, Crummy, Drumeanan Beg, Drumeanan More
- Placenames
- Derreen 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.