# Derrycon Lower, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inishcaltra, barony of Leitrim, Co. Clare; in Irish Doire Con Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,103,232 m² (110.32 ha, 272.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,352 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Inishcaltra, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/inishcaltra.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Mountshannon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 463 people lived in 197 households in the Mountshannon electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7743 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30991 - Centre: latitude 52.944002, longitude -8.436903 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycon Lower, from 44 m² to 306,357 m² (30.64 ha, 75.7 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1461828: 306,357 m² (30.64 ha, 75.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461828.md - Parcel 1508650: 139,376 m² (13.94 ha, 34.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508650.md - Parcel 1434960: 123,174 m² (12.32 ha, 30.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434960.md - Parcel 1517784: 110,541 m² (11.05 ha, 27.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517784.md - Parcel 1436256: 95,178 m² (9.52 ha, 23.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436256.md - Parcel 1453594: 91,121 m² (9.11 ha, 22.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453594.md - Parcel 1487375: 71,222 m² (7.12 ha, 17.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1487375.md - Parcel 1460368: 41,033 m² (4.1 ha, 10.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460368.md - Parcel 1503001: 26,793 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503001.md - Parcel 1439925: 20,063 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1439925.md - Parcel 1489275: 12,583 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1489275.md - Parcel 1494850: 12,332 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1494850.md - Parcel 1442157: 10,352 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442157.md - Parcel 5353625: 7,653 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5353625.md - Parcel 1458523: 6,466 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458523.md - Parcel 1441514: 5,194 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441514.md - Parcel 5037443: 5,095 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037443.md - Parcel 4656618: 4,436 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4656618.md - Parcel 5628192: 3,188 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5628192.md - Parcel 1468082: 2,836 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1468082.md - Parcel 1437538: 2,011 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1437538.md - Parcel 1496467: 2,005 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1496467.md - Parcel 5522512: 1,947 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522512.md - Parcel 5569744: 1,871 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5569744.md - Parcel 5569737: 44 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5569737.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derrycon 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 29 Sept 2025, Clare County Council 2560595: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of existing house, garage and car port and connect to approved effluent treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560595/0 - 11 Dec 2024, Clare County Council 2460633: N/a. Retention. of the existing house, garage and car port and connect to approved effluent treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460633/0 - 12 Jun 2023, Clare County Council 23339: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the development will consist of a new dwelling house, site entrance wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23339/0 - 8 Apr 2020, Clare County Council 20239: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, effluent treatment system with percolation area and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20239/0 - 9 Dec 2019, Clare County Council 19962: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, effluent treatment system with percolation area and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19962/0 - 8 Jun 2017, Clare County Council 17449: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17449/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA, site code 004168, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004168 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrycon Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrycon 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 Derrycon 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrycon 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/clare/derrycon-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/derrycon-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/derrycon-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrycon Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cappaduff: https://everytownland.com/clare/cappaduff.md - Cloonamirran: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonamirran.md - Derrycon Upper: https://everytownland.com/clare/derrycon-upper.md - Mountshannon: https://everytownland.com/clare/mountshannon.md - Sellernaun East: https://everytownland.com/clare/sellernaun-east.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/clare/derrycon-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/derrycon-lower