Derravonniff
Derravonniff is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Doire Bhanbh.
- Area
- 448.2 ha
- 1,108 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 3,621 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derravonniff, from 53 m² to 1,767,861 m² (176.79 ha, 436.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derravonniff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Sept 2020Conditional
chun athruithe a dhéanamh agus chun síneadh a thógáil leis an Scoil Násiúnta i Doire Bhanbh, Camus. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 150 msq.
Permission · Galway County Council, 201236
17 Jan 2018N/a
of works to Screebe Lodge, a Protected Structure under the Galway County Development Plan (item 690 of the Record of Protected Structures) as well as other works within the curtilage of Screebe Lodge. The works comprise the retention of the following (identification letters from previous application register reference 15/213): (A) store (formerly stables) including alterations to structure: (C) re-roofing of old cottage and change of use to store: (D) boat shed and store; (E) additional guest accommodation and leisure facilities building: (F) electrical services building; (G) works to Screebe Lodge incorporating re-roofing, re-plastering, alterations to window cills and construction of plinth: (H) administration and garage building: (I) boiler house; (K) solar panels; and (N) waste water treatment plants (2 no.). Permission is also sought for retention of works to the curtilage of Screebe Lodge including landscaping, infilling, walls, gates, alterations to roadways and footpaths and for all associated works and services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 863.2 sqm
Retention · Galway County Council, 1835
17 Feb 2017N/a
for development consisting of the retention of works to Screebe Lodge, a Protected Structure under the Galway County Development Plan (item 690 of the Record of Protected Structures) as well as other works within the curtilage of Screebe Lodge. The works comprise the retention of the following (Identification letters from previous application register reference 15/213): (A) store (formerly stables) including alterations to structure (C) re-roofing of old cottage and change of use to store; (D) boat shed and store; (E) additional guest accommodation and leisure facilities building; (F) electrical services building; (G) works to Screebe Lodge incorporating re-roofing, re-plastering, alterations to window cills and construction of plinth; (H) administration and garage building; (I) boiler house; (K) solar panels; and (N) waste water treatment plants (2 no.). Permission is also sought for retention of works to the curtilage of Screebe Lodge including landscaping, infilling, walls, gates, alterations to roadways and footpaths and for all associated works and services. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 863.2 sqm.)
Retention · Galway County Council, 17204
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
- Special Area of Conservation: Kilkieran Bay and Islands SAC 002111
- Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
- Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derravonniff.
Architectural heritage
- Screeb House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Irregular plan (originally T-plan) detached four-bay three-storey former lodge, built c.1860, now in use as hotel and restaurant, with numerous additions to south-west, north-west and north-east elevations, including single-storey additions with hipped slate roofs and a two-storey faux-tower. Hipped slate roofs and flat roofs with rendered and roughcast rendered chimneystacks and replacement aluminium and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with rendered plinth having moulded render cornice band to single-storey entrance block. Square-headed window openings having raised render surrounds, tooled limestone and concrete sills, canted double-storey bay-window to rear with replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed door opening with moulded render surround and timber panelled door with brass fittings and wall mounted bell housing. Flagstone patio to rear and terraced garden adjoining lakeside, outhouse to the north-west. Two entrances with rubble stone boundary wall to roadside with replacement piers with dressed pyramidal coping to each.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derravonniff, 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 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 Derravonniff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derravonniff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Derravonniff · Doire Bhanbh
- Area
- 4,482,497 m² (448.25 ha, 1,107.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Camus, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 332 people lived in 126 households in the Camus electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Camus Oughter, Derryvrisk, Glentrasna, Lettermore
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Derravonniff 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.