Derryginny
Townland in the civil parish of Tomregan, barony of Tullyhaw, Co. Cavan; in Irish Doire Goine
- Area
- 51.4 ha
- 127 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 1,145 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryginny, from 11 m² to 68,026 m² (6.8 ha, 16.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Public Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Amenity and Open Space (Open space, park)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Jul 2026N/a
to Retain and Continue use of former temporary storage structure, in its current location within previously approved development (Planning Reg: 23/60142) at Kennedy’s Home and Garden Centre / Agri Direct, Church St, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan. Works to include 1) Revised car parking layout; 2) Increased deliveries and storage yard, 3) All ancillary and associated siteworks and boundary treatments
Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660406
15 Jul 2026N/a
to Retain and Continue use of former temporary storage structure, in its current location within previously approved development (Planning Reg: 23/60142) at Kennedy’s Home and Garden Centre / Agri Direct, Church St, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan. Works to include 1) Revised car parking layout; 2) Increased deliveries and storage yard, 3) All ancillary and associated siteworks and boundary treatments
Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660393
8 May 2026Conditional
for temporary planning permission ( 5 yr ) to Provide hardstanding area, approx 14m x 16m, to erect 3no steel containers, fencing and gates for the storage of kayaking equipment
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660240
29 Apr 2026N/a
for temporary planning permission ( 5 yr ) to Provide hardstanding area, approx 14m x 16m, to erect 3no steel containers, fencing and gates for the storage of kayaking equipment for Cavan Canoe Club at Ballinamore Rd, Derryginny, Ballyconnell, Co Cavan. H14TO27
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660214
11 Apr 2026N/a
for temporary planning permission ( 5 yr ) to Provide hardstanding area, approx 14m x 16m, to erect 3no steel containers, fencing and gates for the storage of kayaking equipment
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660172
11 Aug 2025Conditional
for (a) demolition of part of first floor of existing building and construct two storey pitched roof extension incorporating plant room on ground floor and 2 no. 2 bedroom apartments on first floor over existing ground floor of building known as ‘The Woodford Arms’ (b) the formation of a new second floor within existing double height space first floor function room with change of use from function room to residential to create 2 no. 2 bed apartments over first and second floor with new windows and rooflights (c) construct new external stairs, communal terrace and balcony (d) alterations to plans/elevations (e) provide car parking and associated site work
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560466
16 Aug 2023Conditional
to erect extensions to front and side of Kennedy’s Home and Garden Centre - Agri Direct premises. Works to include increased retail and storage space at ground floor level, additional office space at 1st floor level and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360142
2 Nov 2022N/a
for (A) residential development comprising 12 no. units, as follows: 8 no. 3-bed and 2 no. 4-bed dwellings in 2 no. two-storey blocks and 2 no. 4-bed detached two-storey dwellings, together with service roads, alterations to existing entrance, footpaths, carparking, landscaping, connection to existing services, and (B) demolition of 2 no. out-buildings, and associated site development works. The proposed development is within the curtilage of a Protected Structure
Permission, 12 homes · Cavan County Council, 22441
24 Mar 2021Conditional
amend previously approved planning permission reg no 18/168, to include for demolition and reconstruction of single and two-storey block to rear comprising of retail and residential use
Permission · Cavan County Council, 21172
5 Dec 2019Conditional
to retain and complete alterations to plans of previously approved planning application Ref: 19/31, namely provision of increased floor area and associated alterations to elevations to single storey extension currently under construction to the rear of existing retail unit also to retain existing steel framed and barrel vaulted canvas roof structure extension to the garden centre
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19485
1 Feb 2019Conditional
to erect a single storey extension to the rear of existing retail unit. Significant Further Information and revised plans have been furnished to the Planning Authority
Permission · Cavan County Council, 1931
24 Apr 2018Conditional
to remove archway and part of habitable dwelling over to improve access widths to accommodate pedestrian and vehicular access to existing supermarket/hardware carpark, provide setback boundary walls to rear and security gates/bollards, maintain existing R.O.W. to rear of adjoining dwelling, alterations to southeast elevations of existing retail/residential unit which includes extended shopfront at ground floor level and additional windows to first floor and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18168
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derryginny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryginny.
Architectural heritage
- Ballyconnell Post Office, house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Corner-sited three-bay two-storey house, built c.1810, with shopfront to ground floor. Now in use as post office. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystack to end gable. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth, plat band to first floor, vertical corner bands, and door surround. Coursed sandstone rubble walls with cement pointing to east gable. Irregular spaced openings with one-over-one timber sliding-sash windows having ogee horns and concrete sills. Recent timber panelled door. Recent simple shopfront placed off-centre. Opening to gable, now blocked. Outbuilding to rear having pitched corrugated-iron roof, coursed sandstone rubble walls, timber battened doors and two-over-two sliding timber sash windows.
- Ballyconnell Masonic Hall, masonic lodge/hall, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted three-bay single-storey Masonic hall, built 1911, with single-bay side porch to north and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched slate roofs to hall and porch with overhanging eaves and verges having plain barge boards, decorative terracotta ridges with finials to the gables, red-brick chimney stack in ridge of porch roof to side of hall, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-faced limestone ashlar walls with smooth quoins to gable front. Roughcast rendered walls elsewhere with rendered buttresses to sides and projecting rendered band at eaves and plinth. Round-headed window openings having timber windows with stained glass. Round-headed entrance with render keystone and plain boarded timber door with stained glass fanlight. Simple wainscotted interior with rib and collar truss roof and exposed purlins and rafters. Porch approached by three steps. Wrought-iron railings with ornate cast-iron piers to front of site.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1870 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derryginny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Derryginny · Doire Goine
- Area
- 513,552 m² (51.36 ha, 126.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomregan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhaw
- Electoral division
- Ballyconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyconnell electoral division: 1,859 people in 704 households; 52% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Agharaskilly, Annagh, Carrowmore, Cullyleenan, Doon, Gortoorlan, Lecharrownahone, Snugborough
- Placenames
- Derryginny 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.