# Derrycon Upper, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inishcaltra, barony of Leitrim, Co. Clare; in Irish Doire Con Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,195,051 m² (319.51 ha, 789.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,788 m² (2.18 ha, 5.38 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 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/7744 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30992 - Centre: latitude 52.953577, longitude -8.433072 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycon Upper, from 118 m² to 315,382 m² (31.54 ha, 77.93 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1436921: 315,382 m² (31.54 ha, 77.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436921.md - Parcel 1483394: 267,969 m² (26.8 ha, 66.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483394.md - Parcel 1499295: 218,167 m² (21.82 ha, 53.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499295.md - Parcel 1448268: 188,709 m² (18.87 ha, 46.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1448268.md - Parcel 1435929: 174,158 m² (17.42 ha, 43.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435929.md - Parcel 1429400: 153,425 m² (15.34 ha, 37.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429400.md - Parcel 1512611: 148,990 m² (14.9 ha, 36.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512611.md - Parcel 1461829: 140,330 m² (14.03 ha, 34.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461829.md - Parcel 1500991: 124,882 m² (12.49 ha, 30.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500991.md - Parcel 1483106: 123,348 m² (12.33 ha, 30.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483106.md - Parcel 1462852: 118,568 m² (11.86 ha, 29.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1462852.md - Parcel 1451984: 116,415 m² (11.64 ha, 28.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1451984.md - Parcel 1453595: 101,171 m² (10.12 ha, 25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453595.md - Parcel 1496823: 93,326 m² (9.33 ha, 23.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1496823.md - Parcel 1477737: 84,306 m² (8.43 ha, 20.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477737.md - Parcel 1503002: 67,402 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503002.md - Parcel 1450378: 58,486 m² (5.85 ha, 14.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450378.md - Parcel 1510942: 53,641 m² (5.36 ha, 13.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510942.md - Parcel 1491128: 45,509 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491128.md - Parcel 1438366: 44,948 m² (4.49 ha, 11.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438366.md - Parcel 1431113: 42,410 m² (4.24 ha, 10.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1431113.md - Parcel 1520475: 41,426 m² (4.14 ha, 10.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520475.md - Parcel 1459956: 40,248 m² (4.02 ha, 9.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1459956.md - Parcel 2611622: 38,869 m² (3.89 ha, 9.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2611622.md - Parcel 1446581: 38,679 m² (3.87 ha, 9.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1446581.md - Parcel 1516738: 34,267 m² (3.43 ha, 8.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1516738.md - Parcel 1520474: 30,408 m² (3.04 ha, 7.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520474.md - Parcel 1511767: 29,104 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1511767.md - Parcel 1455963: 26,197 m² (2.62 ha, 6.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1455963.md - Parcel 1472210: 21,984 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1472210.md - Parcel 1483062: 21,592 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483062.md - Parcel 1455714: 20,925 m² (2.09 ha, 5.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1455714.md - Parcel 1458088: 17,245 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458088.md - Parcel 1435652: 14,957 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435652.md - Parcel 1447295: 14,434 m² (1.44 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1447295.md - Parcel 1501249: 13,478 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1501249.md - Parcel 1473986: 12,572 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1473986.md - Parcel 1448766: 10,435 m² (1.04 ha, 2.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1448766.md - Parcel 1501230: 10,064 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1501230.md - Parcel 1509607: 9,064 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1509607.md - Parcel 1459771: 4,834 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1459771.md - Parcel 1503490: 4,738 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503490.md - Parcel 1509806: 4,670 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1509806.md - Parcel 1503489: 4,539 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503489.md - Parcel 1450717: 3,893 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450717.md - Parcel 2670836: 3,847 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2670836.md - Parcel 1489584: 3,788 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1489584.md - Parcel 1488059: 3,370 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1488059.md - Parcel 1467593: 3,271 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1467593.md - Parcel 1467350: 3,263 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1467350.md - Parcel 1492775: 3,087 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1492775.md - Parcel 1452171: 3,078 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1452171.md - Parcel 2670799: 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2670799.md - Parcel 1507550: 2,400 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1507550.md - Parcel 1436443: 1,793 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436443.md - Parcel 1430028: 1,423 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430028.md - Parcel 1510356: 621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1510356.md - Parcel 1501480: 451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1501480.md - Parcel 2688988: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2688988.md - Parcel 2670150: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2670150.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 28 Feb 2025, Clare County Council 2553: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2553/0 - 2 Aug 2023, Clare County Council 23431: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23431/0 - 9 Mar 2023, Clare County Council 23150: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23150/0 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 Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrycon Upper. ## 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 Upper, 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 Upper. - 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-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/derrycon-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/derrycon-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bohateh South: https://everytownland.com/clare/bohateh-south.md - Boleynagoagh North: https://everytownland.com/clare/boleynagoagh-north.md - Cloonamirran: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonamirran.md - Cloonoolia North: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonoolia-north.md - Derroran East: https://everytownland.com/clare/derroran-east.md - Derroran West: https://everytownland.com/clare/derroran-west.md - Derrycon Lower: https://everytownland.com/clare/derrycon-lower.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-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/derrycon-upper