Derrybeg

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrybeg, from 24 m² to 67,879 m² (6.79 ha, 16.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Derrybeg 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.

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (4) FORMATION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562131

• 13 Mar 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460325

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. ADDITIONAL PODS, INCLUDING UPGRADE OF EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVICE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350254

• 13 Jan 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF TWO INDIVIDUAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS TO SERVE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL UNITS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350026

• 21 Dec 2022N/a

  INSTALLATION OF TWO INDIVIDUAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS TO SERVE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL UNITS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252064

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF (A) 3 NO. ADDITIONAL STUDIO PODS (B) 12 NO. 2 BEDROOM PODS TO REPLACE 11 NO. MOTORHOME PITCHES & 5 NO. YURTS, GRANTED UNDER PL REF: 19/50457 (2) CHANGE OF USE OF RECREATIONAL & CAFE BUILDING GRANTED UNDER PL REF 19/50457 TO A NEW FACILITY BUILDING TO INCLUDE TOILETS & SHOWER FACILITIES, LAUNDRY ROOM, SHOP UNIT AND STAFF AND GUEST ACCOMMODATION (3) UPGRADING AND RELOCATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM GRANTED UNDER PL REF: 19/50457 (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152613

• 30 Jun 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151292

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF MOTOR HOME AND CAMPING PARK FACILITY BUILDING (RECEPTION , TOILETS, SHOWERS) GRANTED UNDER PL REF: 19/50457, TO INCLUDE A CAFE AND SHOP UNIT,WITH ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION (2) ALTERATIONS TO FENESTRATION OF FACILITY BUILDING (3) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO REAR OF FACILITY BUILDING (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151106

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  MÉADÚ DE STÓR AMHÁIN A CHUR LEIS AN TEACH CÓNAITHE ATÁ ANN (2) GARÁISTE AONAR, DE STÓR GO LEITH AT THÓGAIL AR AN SÚIOMH (3) COMH MAITH LEIS NA HOIBREACHA SUÍOMH UILIG A BHAINEANN LEIS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2052059

• 3 Apr 2019Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A MOTOR HOME AND CAMPING PARK TO INCLUDE 17 NO. DESIGNATED MOTOR HOME PITCHES, 9 NO. PODS, 5 NO. YURTS, AND CAMPING AREAS FOR TENTS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF SHOWERS/CHANGING FACILITIES & TOILETS BUILDING WITH RECEPTION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY ROOMS, (3) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL OUTBUILIDNG AND REPLACEMENT WITH STOREY AND HALF TYPE BUILDING WITH RECREATIONAL & CAFE FACILITIES ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION ON THE FIRST FLOOR, (4) PROVISION OF NEW POLISHING FILTER WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVICE BOTH THE PROPOSED WORKS AND EXISTING DOMESTIC DWELLING/ B & B, (5) NEW VEHICLE ENTRANCE ONTO 5-257-11 PUBLIC ROAD TO SERVICE PROPOSED MOTOR HOME AND CAMPING PARK, (6) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR VEHICLE ENTRANCE FOR EXISTING DOMESTIC DWELLING/ B & B ONTO L-1263-1 PUBLIC ROAD, WITH PROVISION OF PASSING BAY ADJACENT TO ENTRANCE AND (7) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950457

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrybeg.

Architectural heritage

• Bunbeg Community Centre, church/chapel, 1855–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan former Catholic church, built c.1860, with five-bay main northwest elevation with shallow chancel to centre fronted by U-plan sacristy of c.1874, and with two-bay projection to southeast side. Now in use as community hall. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves, ashlar copings, stucco cross finial to northwest gable, and replacement rainwater goods. Clipped conical slate roof to sacristy, leaded to centre. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rusticated dressed ashlar quoins, squared and snecked coursed sandstone walls to chancel, and smooth-rendered walls to sacristy. Pointed-arch window openings with stone sills, raised rusticated granite block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber windows. Rose window to chancel in pointed-arch surround with quatrefoil traceried inset and with secondary glazing. Traceried window(s) to two-bay projection. Timber battened door to northeast gable with fanlight. Pink granite ashlar square-plan piers to entrance, with plinths and pyramidal caps, and decorative cast-iron double-leaf gate.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1258 (ZIP).

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

Name

Derrybeg · Doirí Beaga

Area

454,951 m² (45.5 ha, 112.42 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Magheraclogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Magheraclogher electoral division: 2,841 people in 1,130 households; 78% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Magheragallan, Meenanillar, Stranacorcragh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derrybeg 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.