Derrynahinch

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynahinch, from 112 m² to 658,744 m² (65.87 ha, 162.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Derrynahinch 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.

• 20 Aug 2026Conditional

  is sought by Jimmy Madigan for material change of use of Existing Outbuildings to Dwelling House, proposed single storey extension to the side elevation (south) & porch to the front elevation (east), modify roadside boundary wall, install new sewage treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660529

• 15 Apr 2026Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to the south and a storey and a half type extension to the north of existing dwelling, install new sewage treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660219

• 19 Mar 2026Conditional

  to demolish part of existing shed / slatted tank to accommodate proposed new build and to construct a new slatted tank and with roofed shed, accommodating straw bed area and central passage, including all necessary site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2660156

• 9 Jan 2024N/a

  for a walled silage base, extension to manure pit, concrete apron and associated site works necessary to facilitate the proposed development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460010

• 27 Aug 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of a 10 year permission for the construction of a Solar PV Energy development within a total site area of up to 9hA, to include electrical transformer/ inverter station modules, battery storage modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on steel support structures, access roads, fencing and associated electrical cabling, ducting and ancillary infrastructure

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19605

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct an extension to the existing dwelling house, namely to extend the existing living area, including all necessary site works and for permission for retention of two dormer windows and new front door to front elevation of existing dwelling house, at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18169

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK032-019001 Church
  Description

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• KK032-019002 Graveyard
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• KK032-019003 Font
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• KK032-019004 Enclosure
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• KK032-021 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
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• KK032-053 House - 17th century
  Description

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Architectural heritage

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

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 Derrynahinch, 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_2211 (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 Derrynahinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Derrynahinch · Doire na hInse

Area

4,009,644 m² (400.96 ha, 990.8 acres)

Civil parish

Derrynahinch, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Kiltorcan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

188 people lived in 54 households in the Kiltorcan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconway, Ballydowan, Ballylowra, Castlebanny, Castlecolumb, Castlecosker, Kiltorcan, Moanroe Commons

Placenames

Derrynahinch 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.