Derreen

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 234 m² to 195,865 m² (19.59 ha, 48.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

• 23 Feb 2024Conditional

  the construction of a machinery shed and a rainwater harvesting tank including all associated site works and RETENTION PERMISSION FOR existing stables now used as storage and a polytunnel as constructed

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461

• 16 Jan 2024Refused

  the construction of a new dwelling house, agri shed, entrance, driveway, packaged waste water treatment system with eco-flo filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460025

• 29 Oct 2021N/a

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged waste water treatment system with eco-flo filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211511

• 27 Sept 2018Conditional

  a two storey dwelling house, with attached carport, garage, on site treatment system and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18940

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: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279

Recorded monuments

• LI011-080 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Site of Derreen Castle now occupied by a modern house, in gently undulating pasture, with a tract of forestry to N and a modern dwelling c. 40m to W. Described by Westropp as a rectangular-shaped tower (L 50ft [15.25m] x Wth 20ft [6m]) with gables upstanding and the sides fallen (1906-07, 158). Caisleán a’ Doirín or castle of the little oak wood was described in 1840 as following; 'The ruins are 50 ft. [15.25m] long from E. to W., and 20 ft [6m] broad. The side walls are nearly mouldered away, but the gables, which are covered with ivy, remains perfect' (OSNB Kilcornan Parish Book 2). Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a long rectangular-shaped structure (approx. dims. 20m NE-SW x 9m NW-SE) annotated ‘Derreen Castle (in ruins)’. According to local information, the remains were demolished c. 1960 and a dwelling house built on the site (SMR file). A long building (23m NE-SW; 9m NW-SE) is visible on the castle footprint, as seen on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 8 July 2020

• LI011-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on ENE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as circular (diam. c. 20m) embanked enclosure, has been levelled. Area of enclosure now evident as slightly depression in which rubble has been dumped. Site contained within narrow strip of land joining larger fields to N and S; slight curve in dry-stone boundary ESE->W may respect enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_736 (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

803,366 m² (80.34 ha, 198.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Kilcornan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

839 people lived in 278 households in the Kilcornan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlegrey, Cloonnagalleen, Crokerspark, Glennameade

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.