Derries

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derries, from 1,365 m² to 95,821 m² (9.58 ha, 23.68 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 Derries 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.

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  to retain alterations to floor plans and elevations, retain existing septic tank & percolation area and all ancillary and associated works (previously approved under 00/1428)

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560350

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gowna 000992

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derries.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Derries with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Derries · Na Doirí

Area

774,230 m² (77.42 ha, 191.32 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlumman, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Loughdawan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughdawan electoral division: 329 people in 126 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnagh Lower, Cormaddyduff

Placenames

Derries 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.