Derra

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derra, from 184 m² to 441,761 m² (44.18 ha, 109.16 acres). 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Derra 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.

• 12 Jul 2024Conditional

  Full planning permission to construct a new dwelling house and detached garage, install a mechanical treatment unit, polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460449

• 25 Nov 2022Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCT A MACHINERY SHED (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221223

• 12 Nov 2018Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE, (B) NEW ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, (C) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND (D) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AT SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181105

• 11 Sept 2018N/a

  FOR AN ALL-WEATHER EQUESTRIAN TRAINING FACILITY COMPRISING A LUNGING ARENA, A WARM UP ARENA, OUTDOOR LIGHTING , PARKING AND UNLOADING AREA, CHANGING ROOM FACILITY WITH BATHROOM, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ATTACHED AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18883

• 28 May 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SLATTED HOUSE WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE FARMYARD

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18505

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derra.

Recorded monuments

• KE002-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 27m NE-SW, 29m NW-SE Lissatober/Lios an tobair (ringfort of the well). This is a univallate rath consisting of a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank and an exterior fosse. The exterior height of the bank is 1.6m, the internal height on average .8m. The width of the bank at the base varies between 3m-5m. To the SE is a c 3m wide gap providing access to the interior. The fosse survives as a very low, barely perceptible depression which measures c 4m in width and .3m below the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 163. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE002-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 25m N-S, 27m E-W Situated NE of KE002-049----, this circular univallate rath has an enclosing earthen bank which measures 1.8m externally and on average .8m internally. The width of the bank on average is 5m. The exterior fosse is not apparent for the full extent of the site. It runs from the NW through N to SE and also appears to the SW. On average it measures 1.6m in width and .6m below the height of the surrounding land. There are two main gaps to the S and E, measuring c4m and c3m respectively. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 164. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE002-064 Earthwork
  Description

  In poorly drained reclaimed grassland.  Two ringforts (KE002-050/049----) 235m to SE and 190m to SSE respectively.  Roughly circular-shaped area (int. diam. c. 35m; overall diam. c. 45m) defined by a ditch visible as a cropmark on 2013-2018 MapGenie aerial imagery, not visible on any edition of the OS maps. Cropmark of linear ditch radiating out from W side of cropmark may be the remains of a levelled field bank/boundary that is contemporaneous with the earthwork.  Cropmark of linear ditch running E-W transects the N section of the earthwork which appears to be the remains of a later field boundary cutting across the site. This field boundary is depicted on the first edition OS six-inch map.  Possibly the cropmark of a levelled ringfort identified during an assessment by the Department’s Archaeology & Built Heritage section of an application for a Licence for a forest road project (DAFM Ref. CN97549).   Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Sam Hughes, Archaeologist, Forestry Service, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine   Date of Compilation: 10 November 2025

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derra.

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 Derra, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derra.

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 Derra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Derra · Doire

Area

2,012,195 m² (201.22 ha, 497.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconly, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Gullane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

278 people lived in 112 households in the Gullane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynoneen, Curraghderrig, Gullane East, Trippul East, Tulla More

Placenames

Derra 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.