Derreenboy

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreenboy, from 1,243 m² to 314,452 m² (31.45 ha, 77.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Derreenboy 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.

• 13 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 258 sqm. (garage) 50 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18989

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 Derreenboy.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-090 Enclosure
  Description

  In flat reclaimed grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular field and on the 1946-7 revision of the map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 28m N-S; c. 24m E-W). According to local information, the site was levelled during land-reclamation works and some ‘coffins’ were found here c. 1940. Apart from a slight rise, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 March 2019

• GA099-090001 Burial
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Derreenboy, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derreenboy · An Doirín Buí

Area

588,852 m² (58.89 ha, 145.51 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kiltormer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

538 people lived in 190 households in the Kiltormer electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Addergoole, Cloonlahan (Eyre), Cloonlahan (Geoghegan), Englishtown, Walshtown

Placenames

Derreenboy 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.