Derreen Upper

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreen Upper, from 445 m² to 170,366 m² (17.04 ha, 42.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Upper 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.

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 167.73 sqm & (G) 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25157

• 22 Aug 2024Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store on revised site boundaries along with associated siteworks

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2461098

• 5 Oct 2021Refused

  for a fully serviced dwelling house, garage/fuel store, a new wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works including the removal of derelict dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 164 sqm, Garage: 70 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211831

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• GA031-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 41m) defined by a bank and external fosse, best preserved from S to W. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA031-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (N-S 35m) defined by a bank at S, and elsewhere by a scarp. An external fosse is visible from E through S to SSW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE. There is a large quarry pit at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA031-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 41.5m, E-W 34.5m) defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The outer bank is disturbed by a field boundary at SW, and no visible surface trace of it survives from WtoNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA031-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 32.2m, N-S 30.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from N to E. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S. Either of two gaps at W (Wth 6m) or E (Wth 7.2m) could be original. Local tradition of a CBG (GA031-031001-) within the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA031-031001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within ringfort (GA031-031----). According to local information, there was a CBG in S half of the rath; no visible surface trace survives. A still-born child was buried here 50 years ago, and there is no recollection of its use within the last 25 years. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Upper, 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 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 Upper.

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

Name

Derreen Upper · Doirín Uachtair

Area

1,426,902 m² (142.69 ha, 352.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Cloonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

493 people lived in 144 households in the Cloonkeen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahaun, Cloonkeen (Waldron), Cloonkeennagran, Cogaula, Derreen Lower, Gortnahaskany, Kilkerrin, Monairmore, Timard, Tullaghaun

Placenames

Derreen Upper 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.