Derrinlough

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrinlough, from 2,577 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 137,413 m² (13.74 ha, 33.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Derrinlough 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 2025Conditional

  to; 1. construct slatted shed with cubicles to include concrete aprons. 2. Demolish existing slatted tank & extend existing shed to accomodate upgrade of milking facilities. 3. Roof existing collection area to accomodate cattle handling facilities with cattle race & crush to include slurry float channel & all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25343

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Derrinlough Bog NHA 001254
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Richmond Esker Nature Reserve 000323

Recorded monuments

• GA031-032 Crannog
  Description

  On a flat lake-bed which was drained 30 years ago. It consists of an irregularly shaped area (N-S 20m, E-W 20m), in poor condition, slightly raised and drier than the surrounding ground, and distinguishable from it by a difference in vegetation growth. According to the landowner, there is an artificial layer of sandstone pebbles, c. 0.25m below the present ground level, below which is a layer of vegetation (T >2m), mainly thin branches. One deeply embedded piece of wood (D c. 0.4m) was noted: possibly a stake. Some animal bones have been uncovered, and a polished stone axehead and the rubbing stone for a saddle quern were found nearby (Topgr. Files, UCG). 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 Derrinlough.

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 Derrinlough, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derrinlough · Doire an Locha

Area

795,607 m² (79.56 ha, 196.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Scregg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

247 people lived in 82 households in the Scregg electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphuill, Cloonkeen Oughter, Cloonkeenclare, Cloonkeenleananode, Richmond

Placenames

Derrinlough 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.