# Derreenboy, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killoran, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish An Doirín Buí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 588,852 m² (58.89 ha, 145.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 35,480 m² (3.55 ha, 8.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killoran, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killoran.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Kiltormer, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17938 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61742 - Centre: latitude 53.229848, longitude -8.323556 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreenboy, from 1,243 m² to 314,452 m² (31.45 ha, 77.7 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2097726: 314,452 m² (31.45 ha, 77.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2097726.md - Parcel 2097727: 75,812 m² (7.58 ha, 18.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2097727.md - Parcel 2048566: 35,480 m² (3.55 ha, 8.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2048566.md - Parcel 2048567: 30,965 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2048567.md - Parcel 2114539: 1,243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114539.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 13 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 18989: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18989/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derreenboy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA099-090: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA099-090----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA099-090001-. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreenboy. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/derreenboy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/derreenboy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/derreenboy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derreenboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Addergoole: https://everytownland.com/galway/addergoole-60025.md - Cloonlahan (Eyre): https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonlahan-eyre.md - Cloonlahan (Geoghegan): https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonlahan-geoghegan.md - Englishtown: https://everytownland.com/galway/englishtown.md - Walshtown: https://everytownland.com/galway/walshtown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/derreenboy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/derreenboy