Derryconor

338 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryconor, from 31 m² to 1,604,428 m² (160.44 ha, 396.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 70 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derryconor 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.

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING AN ATTACHED LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661580

• 26 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STOREY AND A HALF HOUSE, EXISTING GARAGE AND TURF SHED TO THE REAR OF THE SITE, (2) DECOMMISSIONING AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK TO THE SOUTH OF THE EXISTING HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING, PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY, ACCESSED USING THE EXISTING ENTRANCE OFF LOCAL RD. L-1173-1, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GARAGE AND WORKSHOP, (5) PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA TO THE SOUTH OF THE PROPOSED HOUSE AND (6) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SURFACE WATER DRAIN INCLUDING PIPING EXISTING DRAIN AT SITE BOUNDARY LINE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS RELATING TO THE ITEMS ABOVE INCLUDING DEFINED BOUNDARY TREATMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660509

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561686

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  FOIRGNEAMH NUA ILCHUSPÓIREACH ATÁ INA AONAIR, LE STÓR, CEANGAILTE LEIS NA SEIRBHÍSÍ ATÁ AR AN SUÍOMH AGUS OBAIR SUÍOMH A BHAINEANN LEIS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560809

• 11 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461410

• 29 Aug 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC STORE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE UNDER THE DCBR (MICA SCHEME)

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461311

• 28 Aug 2024N/a

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC STORE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE UNDER THE DCBR (MICA SCHEME)

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461304

• 21 Dec 2023N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2352007

• 26 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351435

• 31 Aug 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351302

• 25 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350551

• 18 Nov 2021Conditional

  EXISTING SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY STRUCTURE TO REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE (3) CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING SHED TO NEW HOME GYM AND PRIVATE OFFICE/STUDY SPACE WHICH INCLUDES REMOVING THE EXISTING ROOF AND ADDING A NEW HIGHER ROOF TO ALLOW FOR ADDITIONAL HEAD SPACE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (4) DECOMMISSIONING & REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (5) INSTALLATION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152302

• 3 Sept 2021Conditional

  TEACH CÓNAITHE AGUS DABHACH SEARACHAIS A THÓGAIL AR AN SUÍOMH SEO

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151760

• 30 Sept 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051396

• 21 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750983

• 2 May 2017Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750644

• 12 Apr 2017Conditional

  RECONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AFTER FIRE DAMAGE AND RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750557

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: Ballyness Bay SAC 001090
• Natural Heritage Area: Corveen Bog NHA 001108
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyness Bay 001090

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryconor.

Architectural heritage

• Teach Mhicí Mac Gabhann, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having single-bay flat-roofed windbreak to centre of front elevation (east), bed outshot to rear, single-bay single-storey extension attached to south gable, and with single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to north gable. Recently renovated by local community and now in use as heritage centre. Pitched thatched roof to main dwelling, having ropes over, secured below eaves level by stone pegs, and with raised rendered verges to gable; Roughly hewn timber roof structure to interior of heavy A-framed trusses with saddles to ridge, all pegged together and supporting purlins and ribs in turn, below sod underthatch and thatch proper. Pitched schist slate roof (Roshine slate) in diminishing courses to extension to south, having raised rendered copings and low rendered chimneystacks; pitched thatched roof to outbuilding to north with ropes above, secured below eaves level by stone pegs, and with raised rendered coping to north gable. Smooth-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings to house and extension to south, with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed timber battened door to windbreak. Square-headed timber battened doors to north side of windbreak and to outbuilding to north. Timber roof structure, timber furniture and flag stoned floors to interior. Set slightly back from road in own grounds, overlooking Bá Bhaile an Easa [Ballyness Bay]. Recent stone wall and gateway to road frontage. Detached single-storey outbuilding to north, set at right angle to road, with pitched roped thatched roof secured with stone pegs, raised rendered copings to gables, smooth-rendered walls and square-headed window and door openings with timber sliding sash windows and timber battened doors. Group of single-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched thatched and corrugated-metal roofs.

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

At the centre of the townland of Derryconor, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Derryconor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Derryconor · Doire Chonaire

Area

4,911,669 m² (491.17 ha, 1,213.7 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Gortahork, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,693 people lived in 667 households in the Gortahork electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ards Beg, Glasserchoo, Magheraroarty, Magheraroarty Mountain, Meenlaragh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derryconor 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.