# Derrinlough, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilkerrin, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Doire an Locha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 795,607 m² (79.56 ha, 196.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 88,653 m² (8.87 ha, 21.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilkerrin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilkerrin.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Scregg, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19079 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61750 - Centre: latitude 53.530911, longitude -8.608361 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2051564: 137,413 m² (13.74 ha, 33.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2051564.md - Parcel 2051562: 111,649 m² (11.16 ha, 27.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2051562.md - Parcel 2051563: 90,137 m² (9.01 ha, 22.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2051563.md - Parcel 2051565: 87,170 m² (8.72 ha, 21.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2051565.md - Parcel 2114637: 82,428 m² (8.24 ha, 20.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114637.md - Parcel 2740584: 2,577 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2740584.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 12 Dec 2025, Galway County Council 25343: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25343/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Natural Heritage Area: Derrinlough Bog NHA, site code 001254, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001254 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Richmond Esker Nature Reserve, site code 000323 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA031-032: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA031-032----. 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 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 Derrinlough. ## 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 Derrinlough, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrinlough. - 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/derrinlough.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrinlough.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrinlough.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrinlough 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) - Ballinphuill: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinphuill-60226.md - Cloonkeen Oughter: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonkeen-oughter.md - Cloonkeenclare: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonkeenclare.md - Cloonkeenleananode: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonkeenleananode.md - Richmond: https://everytownland.com/galway/richmond.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/derrinlough - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/derrinlough