Derreen (Johnston)
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltubbrid, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Doirín (Johnston)
- Area
- 295.3 ha
- 730 acres
- Land parcels
- 88
- registered freehold, median 10,965 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen (Johnston), from 67 m² to 166,654 m² (16.67 ha, 41.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 (Johnston) 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
30 Jun 2026N/a
1. Full permission for the upgrade of an existing wastewater treatment system and percolation area to comply with the current EPA Code of Practice. 2. To retain an existing 2 storey detached domestic extension and the conversion of this building from agricultural use to domestic use and all ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660164
29 Oct 2025Refused
5 no. fully serviced glamping pods, access pathways, carpark, storage building, new entrance, refuse storage, signage, upgrade and relocation of existing waste water treatment system to commercial capacity, upgrade of existing polishing filter, retention permission for the site boundaries as differ to planning reference 23/4 and all associated works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560266
2 May 2023Conditional
retention for a log cabin home/office building at my property
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2360
22 Feb 2023N/a
a log cabin home office building
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2327
9 Jan 2023Conditional
installation of a sewerage treatment unit, polishing filter and all associated works to service existing cottage
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 234
24 Jul 2019Conditional
for development consisting of (1) conversion of existing open car port to enclosed storage are/garage and (2) the addition of a first floor extension to the South elevation, above the converted carport, together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19166
2 Oct 2018Conditional
a forest bell mouth entrance onto a public road including all other associated site works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18203
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: Cuilcagh - Anierin Uplands SAC 000584
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cuilcagh - Anierin Uplands 000584
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derreen (Johnston).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreen (Johnston).
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, 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 (Johnston).
- 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 (Johnston) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Derreen (Johnston) · An Doirín (Johnston)
- Area
- 2,953,081 m² (295.31 ha, 729.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltubbrid, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Aghacashel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghacashel electoral division: 82 people in 30 households; 96% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghacashel, Aghlin, Barnameenagh, Derrynawana, Knockacullion, Mullaghgarve
- Placenames
- Derreen (Johnston) 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.