Derreen
Derreen is a townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Doirín.
- Area
- 33.1 ha
- 82 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 1,126 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 1,025 m² to 1,390 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 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
10 Jun 2022Refused
a new two storey house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22663
21 Dec 2021Conditional
construction of an extension to existing dwelling to comprise of garden room, front porch & dormer windows to both front and rear, along with minor elevational changes and the redesign of the internal layout and construction of a car port to the south side of existing garage including ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211794
20 Sept 2021Conditional
construction of a new vehicular entrance to my site
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211307
12 Apr 2019Conditional
extensions to the side and rear of house including a detached domestic store
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19362
16 Jul 2018Refused
construction of a new entrance to the south of the existing dwelling comprising splay walls, piers, gates, vehicle dwell area and all associated incidental works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18722
9 Feb 2018Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, separate garage, new site entrance and all associated site work. The application is a modification of the proposals previously granted planning permission (Ref. No. 14/209)
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18108
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
- At the centre of the townland of Derreen, 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_1087 (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 Derreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Derreen · An Doirín
- Area
- 330,830 m² (33.08 ha, 81.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stradbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Castleconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,607 people lived in 1,298 households in the Castleconnell electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloon and Commons, Derrylusk, Gooig, Lacka
- 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.