Derry
Derry is a townland in the civil parish of Inagh, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 152.4 ha
- 377 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 16,148 m² (1.61 ha, 3.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derry, from 385 m² to 284,807 m² (28.48 ha, 70.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Derry 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
7 Oct 2026N/a
to retain the alterations and extensions to the dwellinghouse, the alterations to the garage & all other associated site and ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26276
28 May 2020Conditional
to widen existing forestry access entrance and all associated site works to existing forestry lands
Permission · Clare County Council, 20338
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 Derry.
Recorded monuments
- CL024-006002 Castle - unclassified
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 8 December 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derry.
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 Derry, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derry.
- 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 Derry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Derry
- Area
- 1,524,147 m² (152.41 ha, 376.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inchiquin
- Electoral division
- Ballyea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 781 people lived in 296 households in the Ballyea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowvere, Drumanure, Drumduff, Gortbofarna, Martry, Rafline
- Placenames
- Derry 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.