Derreen

181 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 30 m² to 443,363 m² (44.34 ha, 109.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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.

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.

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) 12 No. 18m high 1500W pitch lighting for 2 pitches & 2 No. 9m high/30m wide ballstop steel posts/nets, (2) Retention for 2 No. 9m high/30m wide ballstop steel posts/nets & 4 No. precast concrete dugout shelters & 4 No. steel/perspex dugout shelters & all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660221

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

  a single story porch extension to the South East Corner of the main dwelling and elevational modifications to the South, East and West Elevations

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561257

• 10 Feb 2025N/a

  a single story extension to the south west of the main dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560103

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installation of a mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21961

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  revised site boundaries

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21690

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  agricultural entrance

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21689

• 5 Dec 2019Conditional

  (a) construction of a dwelling served by a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and (b) Permission for the construction of a garage incorporated into the dwelling design along with ancillary works. Outline Planning Permission Ref. No. 19/483

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191204

• 16 May 2019Conditional

  a dwelling served by a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all other ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19483

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 19187

• 3 Jul 2018Conditional

  construction of a new spectator stand and to realign existing front boundary fence to improve sight lines, with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18673

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Derreen, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_318 (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.

No address of the register names Derreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Derreen · An Doirín

Area

5,372,731 m² (537.27 ha, 1,327.63 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Kilmoylan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 164 households in the Kilmoylan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athea Lower, Dromreask, Kilbaha Middle (Co. Kerry), Kilbaha North (Co. Kerry), Kilbaha South (Co. Kerry), Knocknagornagh, Templeathea West, Toberatooreen (Co. Kerry)

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.