Derrybreen
Derrybreen is a townland in the civil parish of Lorrha, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Doire Uí Bhriain.
- Area
- 134.6 ha
- 333 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 179,612 m² (17.96 ha, 44.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrybreen, from 4,698 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres) to 751,516 m² (75.15 ha, 185.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derrybreen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Derrybreen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Arragh More (Derrybreen) Bog SAC 002207
- Special Area of Conservation: Kilcarren-Firville Bog SAC 000647
- Natural Heritage Area: Arragh More Bog NHA 000640
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilcarren-Firville Bog 000647
Recorded monuments
- TN004-035 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a low rise of poorly drained land with a nearby bog at E, S and W. Enclosure site (TN004-036) is located immediately to the S. Not visible at ground level. A modern farmyard and hayshed are now located in the area. 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
- TN004-036 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a low rise of poorly drained land with a nearby bog on the E, S and W sides. Enclosure site (TN004-035) is located immediately to the N. Not visible at ground level. Hachured as an irregularly shaped enclosure on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrybreen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derrybreen, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrybreen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrybreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Derrybreen · Doire Uí Bhriain
- Area
- 1,346,457 m² (134.65 ha, 332.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lorrha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Lorrha East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 301 people lived in 117 households in the Lorrha East electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbeville, Arragh More, Ashpark, Cloneska, Kilgask, Lisduff, Lissernane
- Placenames
- Derrybreen 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.