Derries

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derries, from 35 m² to 192,647 m² (19.26 ha, 47.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Derries 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 Jan 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660110

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE DERELICT COTTAGE (2) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING ATTACHED OUTBUILDING TO NEW BEDROOM (3) INSTALLATION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152069

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 Derries.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derries.

Architectural heritage

• Lough Rath Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over unnamed stream/tributary of the Ballintra River flowing into Rath Lough to the west, built c. 1860, having V-profile cut stone cutwater to central pier. Round-headed arches having rock-faced sandstone voussoirs with drafted margins; squared rubble sandstone construction to arch barrels. Squared and coursed rubble sandstone stone construction to spandrels, pier and abutments; squared rubble stone parapets having mildly rock-faced squared sandstone coping over. Squared rubble stone wing walls to either side. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to south-east of Ballintra.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derries

Area

2,989,656 m² (298.97 ha, 738.76 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Cavangarden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cavangarden electoral division: 464 people in 153 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyalla, Ballymagrorty, Barr of Ballynacarrick, Legnanornoge, Pollnaranny, Rockhill, Tievebrack

Placenames

Derries 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.