Derryness

98 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryness, from 77 m² to 252,562 m² (25.26 ha, 62.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Derryness 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.

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) ANCILLARY BUILDING INCLUDING A HOME OFFICE (2) GARDEN ROOM AND STORE AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF GARDEN ROOM AND STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2252051

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Special Protection Area: Sheskinmore Lough SPA 004090
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryness.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1890, having bed outshot to rear, and extension at right angle to rear. Pitched straw-thatched roof, with mesh over and secured to cast-iron pegs to gable and stone pegs to eaves, with rendered chimneystack. Lime-rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement timber door. Stone flag paving to front of house. Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to north, with steps at gable accessing first floor, pitched corrugated-asbestos roof, painted rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Sited at end of laneway, accessed by gateway having conical rubble stone piers with finials, and recent metal 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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Derryness.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Derryness.

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

Name

Derryness

Area

1,504,334 m² (150.43 ha, 371.73 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Dawros, the unit of the census

Census 2022

717 people lived in 288 households in the Dawros electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh, Sandfield, Tullycleave Beg, Tullycleave More

Placenames

Derryness 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.