# Derries Lower, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan; in Irish An Doire Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,076,206 m² (107.62 ha, 265.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,511 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmore, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/kilmore.md - Barony: Loughtee Upper - Electoral division: Killashandra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,092 people lived in 438 households in the Killashandra electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5065 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20685 - Centre: latitude 53.999199, longitude -7.4893 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derries Lower, from 46 m² to 340,056 m² (34.01 ha, 84.03 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 456990: 340,056 m² (34.01 ha, 84.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456990.md - Parcel 459442: 271,054 m² (27.11 ha, 66.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459442.md - Parcel 5181518: 143,331 m² (14.33 ha, 35.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5181518.md - Parcel 456993: 87,803 m² (8.78 ha, 21.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456993.md - Parcel 456649: 78,203 m² (7.82 ha, 19.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456649.md - Parcel 459441: 70,624 m² (7.06 ha, 17.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459441.md - Parcel 459438: 36,984 m² (3.7 ha, 9.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459438.md - Parcel 5174493: 20,593 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174493.md - Parcel 433208: 4,238 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/433208.md - Parcel 2685247: 3,930 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685247.md - Parcel 3576056: 3,493 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3576056.md - Parcel 3576054: 2,641 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3576054.md - Parcel 432976: 2,511 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/432976.md - Parcel 435153: 1,754 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/435153.md - Parcel 436571: 1,747 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/436571.md - Parcel 483239: 1,658 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/483239.md - Parcel 469256: 1,034 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/469256.md - Parcel 486773: 819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/486773.md - Parcel 5791420: 792 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5791420.md - Parcel 4955497: 555 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4955497.md - Parcel 466416: 389 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/466416.md - Parcel 4955505: 301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4955505.md - Parcel 459695: 86 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/459695.md - Parcel 5790570: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5790570.md - Parcel 5790555: 46 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5790555.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derries Lower 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. - 7 Mar 2018, Cavan County Council 1895: Refused. Retention. for development of campsite including: (i) gravel bases for motor homes, no more than 5 no., (ii) grass area of non-agricultural land for tent pitching, (iii)Building A - recreation and services structure containing: recreation area, WC and shower facilities, (iv) Building B - change of use of part of existing agricultural building for use as barbecue area (v) Building C - change of use of old farm house for use as kitchen and toilet facilities with no structural alterations, (vi) gravel car parking space including: site entrance, connections to existing site services, septic tank & percolation area and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1895/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC, site code 000007, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000007 - Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA, site code 004049, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004049 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs, site code 000007 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV019-015: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV019-015----. Raised circular area (int. dims. 44m NW-SE; 43.5m NE-SW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a narrow, deep fosse which has been modified and utilised as a field drain. Original entrance was probably at SE where the bank barely rises above the enclosed area. Modern roadway runs N-S through the site dividing it into two roughly equal portions. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 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 Derries Lower. ## 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 Derries Lower, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derries Lower. - 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/cavan/derries-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derries-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derries-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derries Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Derries Upper: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derries-upper.md - Kinkeel: https://everytownland.com/cavan/kinkeel.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/cavan/derries-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/derries-lower