Derrygareen

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygareen, from 712 m² to 776,075 m² (77.61 ha, 191.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derrygareen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derrygareen 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.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrygareen Heath 000931

Recorded monuments

• TN037-032001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SW slope of rising ground in a mountainous area. A circular area (diam. 25m N-S) enclosed by a well-preserved flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 2.5m), intervening fosse and outer bank (Wth 1-1.5m; H 0.5m), with entrance gap (Wth 1.2m) at SE. There is a small portable bullaun stone (TN037-032002) in the N sector of the ringfort. 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

• TN037-032002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A small portable bullaun stone (diam. 0.24m; D 0.05m) situated in the N sector of a ringfort (TN037-032001) in an area that appears to have been quarried. 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

• TN037-039001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on S facing slope of rising ground in mountainous area. Pennanular enclosure defined by a low dry stone wall as indicated on OS 6-inch map, enclosing element visible from S through W to N with no remains visible elsewhere. Probable 19th century field fence as indciated on OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN037-039002 Field boundary
  Description

  This is a 19th century field wall adjoining onto a larger 19th century field wall in mountainous region. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN037-047 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Holy well or natural spring dedicated to St. Deborah that is annotated 'Tobergal' on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Situated in area of scrub in upland area immediately E of a stream which marks townland boundary with Scrageen. Ringfort (TN037-032001-) with bullaun stone (TN037-032002-) 180m to NE. Depicted on the OS maps as a circular-shaped well with stream flowing out of W wide and into stream to SW. Folklore collected between 1937-8 from Lackamore National School recorded the following tradition about this well; 'Tradition has little to say on this Holy Well. Old folks would tell you that it is a "twin well" with Cragg. Now as twins are born of the one parent, it is evident that it has the same roundness as Cragg. Fr. Lee's sketch history of the parish gives all that is know about her. "Tobar Geal" was a "pattern" well for the cure of sore eyes. Many instances may be recorded, but people are reluctant to permit their names to be made public. A neighbour told me how his sister had promised to make "rounds" in Cragg. She died rather suddenly before she had done so. but she asked him on her deathbed to fulfill the promise. He got the idea somehow that it would be alright to do the "rounds" at Tobar Geal. He was returning home later from Newport one night when his deceased sister met him at the approach to "Tobar Geal". She explained to him that as the "rounds" were promised to Cragg there they should be made and to return to make them for her. He did so. When he arrived back at "Tobar Geal" some hours later his sister appeared again to him and thanked him. I have this story from the man himself.' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 034; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922160/4857131). A second story collected by Lizzie Caplis of Tooreenbrien Upper and a pupil of Lackamore National School recalled the following details; 'In the parish of Newport there are two holy wells, "Tobar Geal and Cragg Well". Tobar Geal is situated two Miles East of Newport and two miles West of Lackamore School in the townsland of Derrygreen. "Cragg Well" is situated in the townsland of Cragg; it is about three miles outside Newport. The Saint of "Tobar Geal" is St. Deborah and her sister St. Commat [Commaneth] founded "Cragg Well". At all seasons of the year people visit "Tobar Geal"; a visit consist of "Five Rounds". "By a round" is meant to go "round" the well. Each person leaves something as an offering when he is leaving such as a beads, a picture, a statue, a coin, a fancy drinking vessel, a piece of ribbon, a medal, but food is never left there. People suffering from teethaches, sore eyes, headaches, stomach troubles and bone disease visit "Tobar Geal". People give "rounds" for invalids and take home some of the water and the sick will rub it to the affected part or else drink it. No trout has been seen in "Tobar Geal". The well is surrounded by whitethorns and evergreen bushes.'(The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 022; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922160/4857119) See attached photos provided courtesy of Derek Ryan Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 May 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1191 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Derrygareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Derrygareen · Doire Ghairín

Area

783,063 m² (78.31 ha, 193.5 acres)

Civil parish

Kilvellane, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Newport, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newport electoral division: 3,167 people in 1,060 households; 76% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeale, Inchadrinagh, Kilnacappagh, Knockancullenagh, Scraggeen

Placenames

Derrygareen 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.