Derk Beg

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derk Beg, from 53 m² to 1,475,084 m² (147.51 ha, 364.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Derk Beg 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.

• 29 Jul 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661411

• 24 Oct 2017Conditional

  TEN YEAR DURATION FOR A NEW IMPOUNDMENT COMPRISING OF CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION AND WILL INCREASE THE NORMAL TOP WATER LEVEL OF DERK MORE LOUGH BY 1.5M. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A STAGE 1 SCREENING REPORT FOR APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751605

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derk Beg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derk Beg.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derk Beg.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derk Beg.

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 Derk Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Derk Beg · An Deirc Bheag

Area

1,921,112 m² (192.11 ha, 474.72 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Glenties, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenties electoral division: 1,475 people in 593 households; 74% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cleengort, Derk More, Derryloaghan, Meenalargan, Mulnamin Beg, Mulnamin More, Straboy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derk Beg 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.