Derreen

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen, from 1,859 m² to 560,275 m² (56.03 ha, 138.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Derreen 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.

• 12 Dec 2024Refused

  to construct dwelling house, install wastewater treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 277 sqm(house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461709

• 16 May 2024Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house and wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.80 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460569

• 9 Feb 2024Refused

  for the construction of dwelling house and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.80 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460131

• 5 Jul 2023Refused

  to construct a new dwellinghouse, effluent treatment system & polishing filter, new vehicular entrance as well as all ancillary site works & services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23271

• 1 Dec 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 148.35sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261195

• 19 Aug 2021Refused

  for a dwelling house and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.7 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211497

• 20 May 2021Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 278.31 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21853

• 28 Sept 2020Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works; Gross floor space of proposed works; 224sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201391

• 12 Feb 2020Refused

  a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 224 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20164

• 21 Mar 2019Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 224 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19404

• 14 Aug 2018Conditional

  to replace existing septic tank and percolation with a new treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181154

• 4 Dec 2017Conditional

  of existing dwelling house, previously granted under Pl Ref No. 14/1179. Gross floor space of work to be retained 252.00sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171732

• 7 Jun 2017N/a

  of external alterations made to existing dwelling house, previously granted under Pl Ref No 14/1179. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 137sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17811

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 Derreen.

Recorded monuments

• GA035-035 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument is situated at the foot of a steep face of rock above S inner reaches of Streamstown Bay. It consists of a roughly angled structure (L 3m, Wth 0.9m), aligned approximately ENE-WSW, and covered by two roof-stones. The W opening is divided by a longitudinally set stone. Traces of a mound are visible on W, N and E. The remains of this tomb are insufficient to permit classification. (Petrie 1972, 253, 'Dunmore, and a cromleac adjoining' may refer: see GA035-035001-) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA035-068 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Adjoining a megalithic tomb (GA035-035----). Petrie (1972, 253) refers to a 'caher' known locally as 'Dunmore' of which no visible trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreen.

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 Derreen, about 1 in 5 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 Derreen.

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 Derreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Derreen · An Doirín

Area

814,086 m² (81.41 ha, 201.17 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Clifden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clifden Demesne, Fakeeragh, Gortrummagh, Letterdeen, Lettershanna

Placenames

Derreen 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.