Derrycon Upper

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycon Upper, from 118 m² to 315,382 m² (31.54 ha, 77.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Derrycon Upper 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.

• 28 Feb 2025Conditional

  is sought to relocate existing vehicular entrance to domestic dwelling to within corrected site boundaries. Works to include construction of a new vehicular entrance, side walls and piers, closure of existing entrance and all ancillary site works and services. Retention permission is sought for existing pump house/shed and all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2553

• 2 Aug 2023Conditional

  to construct a single storey domestic dwelling house with incorporated roof lights, integrated lower-level domestic garage including new waste water treatment system with percolation area, domestic well, and all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23431

• 9 Mar 2023N/a

  to construct a single storey domestic dwelling house with incorporated roof lights, integrated lower-level domestic garage including new waste water treatment system with percolation area, domestic well, and all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23150

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrycon Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Derrycon Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Derrycon Upper · Doire Con Uachtarach

Area

3,195,051 m² (319.51 ha, 789.51 acres)

Civil parish

Inishcaltra, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Mountshannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountshannon electoral division: 463 people in 197 households; 72% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bohateh South, Boleynagoagh North, Cloonamirran, Cloonoolia North, Derroran East, Derroran West, Derrycon Lower, Sellernaun East

Placenames

Derrycon Upper 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.