Derrykillew

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrykillew, from 6 m² to 444,861 m² (44.49 ha, 109.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Derrykillew 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.

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  (1) A 38KV UNDERGROUND CABLE GRID CONNECTION APPROXIMATELY 9KM IN LENGTH FROM THE CONSENTED DERRYKILLEW COMMUNITY WIND FARM (AN BORD PLEANÁLA REF. NO. 307520, DONEGAL COUNTY COUNCIL REF. NO. 19/51750) TO LANDS AT TOWNPARKS, NORTH OF THE EXISTING CATHALEEN'S FALL 110KV SUBSTATION IN BALLYSHANNON, (2) A PARTIAL SECTION OF A 38KV OVERHEAD LINE GRID CONNECTION CROSSING 130M OVER THE RIVER ERNE AT CATHALEEN'S FALL, BALLYSHANNON, AND (3) THE DERRYKILLEW COMMUNITY WIND FARM 38KV SUBSTATION AND A BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350892

• 15 Nov 2019Refused

  ALTERATIONS TO (A) INCREASE IN TIP HEIGHT OF THE FIVE PERMITTED TURBINES, FROM 136 METRES TO UP TO 150 METRES (B) AMENDMENTS TO LOCATIONS OF PERMITTED TURBINES NO.'S 1 AND 3; (C) INCREASE IN SIZE OF PERMITTED HARDSTANDING AREAS; (D) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACKS AND PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS ROADS; (E) ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE ONSITE SUBSTATION; (F) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (INCLUDING TREE FELLING). THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE AN OPERATIONAL LIFE OF 30 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE APPLICATION SEEKS A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AWARENESS REPORT AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951750

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  AN EXISTING LATTICE TYPE TEMPORARY METEOROLOGICAL MAST 80M IN HEIGHT AND ASSOCIATED INSTRUMENTATION AND WORKS AND THE CONTINUATION OF ITS USE TO MEASURE LOCAL CLIMATIC CONDITIONS FOR A PERIOD OF A FURTHER 2 YEARS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851715

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: Lough Golagh and Breesy Hill SAC 002164

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrykillew.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820 and extended c. 1870, having modern single-bay addition to the west gable end. Pitched thatched roof, recently renewed, having decorative ropework to ridge, and with two rendered chimneystacks (one to the east gable end, and one to the east side of centre). Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening, offset to the east side of centre, having replacement timber battened door with glazed panel. Set well-back from road in elevated north-to-south sloping site with long approach avenue to rural road to the south. Modern house adjacent to the east, single-storey outbuildings to site. Located in the rural landscape to the north-east of Belleek and a short distance to the north of the border between Donegal and Fermanagh and, subsequently, the border between Ireland and North Ireland.

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 20 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 Derrykillew.

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

Name

Derrykillew

Area

4,241,186 m² (424.12 ha, 1,048.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Cliff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cliff electoral division: 249 people in 97 households; 91% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corlea, Croaghbreesy

Placenames

Derrykillew 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.