Derreen

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 254 m² to 301,791 m² (30.18 ha, 74.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• 16 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for 1) Change of use of the existing original dwelling to domestic garage, to include internal alterations, 2) Retention permission for the construction of single storey covered areas to the rear and side of the existing newer dwelling, 3) Retention permission for a single storey garage extension to the rear of the existing original dwelling and 4) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6820

• 10 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed

  Retention permission for 1) construction of single storey covered areas to the rear and side of the existing dwelling, and a single storey extension to the rear of the existing garage and all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5863

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  The construction of a cubicle shed with straw bedded area along with a slatted slurry tank and associated works for dairy cows.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6551

• 13 Aug 2021Incompleted application

  The construction of a cubicle shed with straw bedded area along with a slatted slurry tank and associated works for dairy cows.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6249

• 27 Jul 2021Incompleted application

  The construction of a cubicle shed with straw bedded area along with a slatted slurry tank and associated works for dairy cows.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6062

• 5 Aug 2016Conditional

  Change of use of an existing ancillary cottage (the lake cottage) from a dwellinghouse to a domestic storage shed, alterations to the lake cottage elevations, construction of a one-storey dwellinghouse as a gate lodge, installation of a septic tank, alterations to the southern boundary wall and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5963

• 9 Mar 2016Conditional

  Construction of a 2 storey dwelling house with adjoining garage, waste water treatment facility and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4529

• 22 Dec 2015Refused

  Construction of a one-storey dwelling house as a gate lodge, installation of a septic tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6960

• 7 Dec 2015Incompleted application

  Construction of a one-storey dwellinghouse as a gate lodge, installation of a septic tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6762

• 20 May 2015Withdrawn

  Dwelling house, domestic garage and new entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5055

• 6 Mar 2015Withdrawn

  Construction of two storey dwellinghouse with adjoining garage, waste water treatment facility and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4445

• 3 Sept 2013Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, alterations and change of use of existing dwelling to detached garage with storage overhead, alterations to existing entrance, decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of a new wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5708

• 1 Aug 2013Incompleted application

  Construction of dwelling house, alterations and change of use of existing dwelling to detached garage with storage overhead, alterations to existing entrance, decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5501

• 20 Sept 2012Conditional

  Construction of a dormer type dwelling house, alterations and change of use of existing dwelling to detached garage with storage overhead, alterations to existing entrance, decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new waste water treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6001

• 16 Sept 2010Conditional

  Demolition of rear two storey house extension and rebuild with new two storey extension and demolition of existing side outbuildings and replacement with new one storey extension with works to include the repair, alteration and conservation of existing house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6315

• 20 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construction of steel slurry tank, cattle shed, slatted tank and extension to loose house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5236

• 6 May 2005Conditional

  Slatted cubicle house and soiled water tank over existing slurry tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3054

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 Derreen.

Recorded monuments

• CO072-013 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on N bank of stream. Traces of burnt material noted; recent drainage works in area. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO072-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). Levelled; slight rise survives in area of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO072-143 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In tillage, on N side of stream. Spread of burnt material noted (16m N-S; 20m E-W); area around spread waterlogged. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Broom Hill, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1880, having single-storey canted bay windows flanking porch to front (south-east), two-storey canted bay windows to sides (north-east and south-west) and two-storey block and lean-to extension to rear (north-west). Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier building. Hipped slate roof with decorative rendered eaves brackets, rendered chimneystacks with decorative terracotta pots, uPVC rainwater goods to front elevation, cast-iron rainwater goods to rear elevation. Leaded flat roof to porch. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with moulded render quoins and stringcourses. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills to front and side elevations including canted bay windows, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with double-leaf glazed timber door with fanlight and limestone step set in shallow recess having render hood moulding. Two-storey outbuilding to north-west of site having pitched corrugated-iron roof and whitewashed rubble limestone walls having rubble limestone buttresses. Square-headed window openings with fixed timber framed windows, square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Quadrant of square-profile rendered piers with ball finials and curving rendered walls to east of site. Set within own grounds.

• Monument, 1940–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding monument, erected c.1945, comprising ashlar limestone obelisk with carved cross having high relief sword at crossing point. Irish inscription to base and lower section of cross. Freestanding carved limestone plaque to west with English inscription. Set on concrete platform, approached by flight of concrete steps, and bounded by redbrick walls, having square-profile piers and wrought-iron railings.

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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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. Cork.

Name

Derreen · An Doirín

Area

1,585,636 m² (158.56 ha, 391.82 acres)

Civil parish

Magourney, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Magourney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,148 people lived in 430 households in the Magourney electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrignamuck, Clontead Beg, Clontead More, Fergus, Kilgobnet

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.