# Derreen, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Doirín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 357,596 m² (35.76 ha, 88.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,047 m² (2.1 ha, 5.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/ballingarry-borrisokane-ra.md - Barony: Ormond Lower - Electoral division: Ballingarry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 579 people lived in 215 households in the Ballingarry electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45797 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 211199 - Centre: latitude 52.990679, longitude -8.02759 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 11,082 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres) to 262,162 m² (26.22 ha, 64.78 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5568919: 262,162 m² (26.22 ha, 64.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5568919.md - Parcel 540455: 25,013 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/540455.md - Parcel 511747: 24,189 m² (2.42 ha, 5.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/511747.md - Parcel 514329: 17,904 m² (1.79 ha, 4.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/514329.md - Parcel 553357: 17,688 m² (1.77 ha, 4.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/553357.md - Parcel 556660: 11,082 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/556660.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 23 Jul 2025, Tipperary County Council 2560718: Conditional. Permission. (1) a new two storey extension to the rear of dwelling house consisting of new Kitchen & Dining Area to Ground Floor, two new Bedrooms and Bathroom to first floor, complete with alterations to the existing dwelling house and completed with associated siteworks, (2) permission to decommission and remove from site existing septic tank and percolation area system, (3) permission to install new septic tank and percolation area system, completed with associated siteworks, (4) permission to construct new entrance onto public road, and to block up existing entrance, completed with associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560718/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derreen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TN011-012: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN011-012----. Situated on a W-facing slope, partly on top of a rise of ground in gently undulating meadow. A large, slightly irregular enclosure outlined on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map (diam.c. 95m N-S and E-W). Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derreen. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/derreen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/derreen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/derreen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Behamore (Smith): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/behamore-smith.md - Boston: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/boston.md - Carrick: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/carrick-210681.md - Creeragh: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/creeragh.md - Lissadonna: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/lissadonna.md - Sopwell: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/sopwell.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/derreen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/derreen