Derryvane

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryvane, from 345 m² to 214,416 m² (21.44 ha, 52.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Derryvane 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF DERELICT OUTHOUSES AND ERECTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND (2) ROOFING OF EXISTING SILAGE PIT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51491 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660129

• 28 Jan 2026N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF DERELICT OUTHOUSES AND ERECTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND (2) ROOFING OF EXISTING SILAGE PIT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51491 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660107

• 1 Dec 2025N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF DERELICT OUTHOUSES AND ERECTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND (2) ROOFING OF EXISTING SILAGE PIT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51491 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562112

• 24 Feb 2025Refused

  ALL ANCILLARY WORKS DONE TO DATE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) 20 MOTORHOME / CARAVAN BERTHS INCLUDING CHARGING POINTS AND OTHER SERVICES AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A COMMUNAL BUILDING CONSISTING OF RECEPTION AND TOILET FACILITIES WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560247

• 16 Jul 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461081

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT SEMI DETACHED HOUSES (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152257

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SILAGE PIT WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151491

• 12 Jul 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN INDOOR HORSE SAND ARENA WITHIN EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151379

• 1 Jul 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A SILAGE PIT WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151318

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REFERENCE NO 11/70446 AND 19/51986 TO INCLUDE AN INTEGRATED GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051326

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  (A) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND REORIENTATION OF HOUSE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REFERENCE NO: 11/70446 AND (B) REORIENTATION OF GARAGE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REFERENCE NO: 11/70446 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951986

• 20 May 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SLATTED CUBICLE SHED & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950760

• 29 Apr 2019Conditional

  (A) PART DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND (B) SLATTED CUBICLE AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ABUT EXISTING CUBICLE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950620

• 23 Jan 2018Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING USING A MODULAR HOME CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA FOR EXISTING ADJOINING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850061

• 12 Jul 2017N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING USING A MODULAR HOME CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA FOR EXISTING ADJOINING DWELLING. (3) RETENTION OF EXISTING MOBILE HOME ON THE SITE TEMPORARILY FOR THE DURATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751102

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 Derryvane.

Recorded monuments

• DG039-013 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked 'Standing Stone' on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch maps and as 'Standing Stone (site of)' on the 3rd edition. There are no visible remains. Situated on pasture land sloping slightly downhill to SE. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Knowhead Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Presbyterian church, dated 1865, having pedimented entrance front with render Tuscan pilasters to corners and flanking central doorway, four-bay side elevations (south-west and north-east), and with single-storey vestry to rear (north-east). Pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to front elevation over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, roughcast rendered walls to the side elevations, and to the rear and vestry. Smooth rendered entablature and smooth rendered moulded coping to pediment, smooth rendered pedestals and capitals to pilasters; rendered roundel motif\date plaque to Tympanum having decorative moulded acanthus leaves surround and painted inscription reading ‘Knowhead Presbyterian Church, rebuilt 1865. Round-headed window openings with rendered sills and replacement windows. Central round-headed entrance door opening having replacement timber double-doors surmounted by timber fanlight. Set back from road to the south-west of the centre of Muff. Tarmacadam forecourt and carpark to site. Detached four-bay two-storey former hall or Sunday school adjacent to the west having pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends, roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth, and with smooth rendered block quoins to the corners, square-headed openings with replacement fittings, and with square-headed doorway at first floor level reached by external flight of concrete steps flanked by rendered walls. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the north having smooth rendered coping over. Vehicular gateway to north comprising rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates with spear finials over; gateway to the north-east of site comprising rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped coping over, and with a pair of modern metal gates. Detached hall (see 40821003) adjacent to the east and associated former Presbyterian manse (see 40821001) located a short distance to the south-east.

• Knowhead Presbyterian Church, hall, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted five-bay double-height Presbyterian memorial hall, dated 1921, having central single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the front elevation (north) and with modern single-storey extension to the rear (south). Pitched artificial slate roof having moulded render eaves course, clay ridge tiles and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth having moulded rendered triangular pediment to entrance front with raised render inscription and date reading ‘Knowhead Memorial Hall 1921’, moulded stringcourse to side and front elevations brought over window openings as hoodmoulding, rendered sill course, and with raised rendered block quoins to the corners of the front elevation (north). Round-headed window openings having stone sills and with timber fixed-pane windows having spoked heads. Central round-headed door opening to porch having replacement timber double-doors having modern fanlight over. Set back from road to the south-west of the centre of Muff. Tarmacadam forecourt and carpark to site. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the north having smooth rendered coping over. Vehicular gateway to north comprising rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped coping over, and with a pair of modern metal gates. Located in shared grounds with Knowhead Presbyterian church (see 40821002) located adjacent to the west. Former Presbyterian manse (see 40821001) located a short distance to the south-east.

• Farm house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1900, with two-bay two-storey return to rear and single-storey conservatory extension to gable. Pitched artificial slate roof with gable ended yellow brick chimneystacks with cornice and terracotta pots to main house. Pitched slate roof with red brick gable end chimneystack with cornice to rear return. Replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins and continuous hoodmoulding incorporating keystone detail to ground and first floors. Square-headed window openings with tripartite windows to ground floor comprising four-over-four timber sash windows and two-over-two timber sashes with two tone coloured glass panes and painted sills with six-over-six timber sashes over; one-over-one with margin lights over door. Square-headed door opening with double leaf glazed timber door with glazed overlight. Set within own grounds with farmyard complex with extensive outbuildings to rear and earlier house (see 40903919) to the east.

• Farm house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house built c. 1860, with return to rear. Hipped artificial slate roof with stone modillion brackets supporting projecting eaves. Pitched gabled artificial slate roofs with paired roughcast rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and replacement rainwater goods to rear. Pitched slate roof with clayware ridge tiles, high roughcast rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods to return. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins and moulded stringcourse to just below eaves level. Smooth rendered walls to return. Square-headed window openings with tripartite uPVC sashes to ground floor, paired round-headed window openings over with two-over-two timber sashes, square-headed window openings to gable with two-over-two timber sashes with margin panes, all with stone sills. Segmental arch-headed central door opening with glazed overlight, moulded timber jambs and consoles with timber panelled door addressed by stone steps. Set within own grounds with farmyard complex with extensive outbuildings to rear and later house (40903917) to the west.

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 Derryvane, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derryvane · Doire Mheathán

Area

3,767,686 m² (376.77 ha, 931.02 acres)

Civil parish

Muff, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Kilderry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,151 people lived in 783 households in the Kilderry electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Craig, Drumhaggart, Dundrean, Muff, Soppog

Placenames

Derryvane 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.