Derryerglinna
Derryerglinna is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Doire Oirghlinne.
- Area
- 266.8 ha
- 659 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 7,774 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryerglinna, from 545 m² to 1,786,311 m² (178.63 ha, 441.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derryerglinna 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 May 2023Conditional
for the development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360503
28 Jan 2019Conditional
permission for a dwelling as constructed on site with revised site boundaries, and all associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained 26.6 sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19108
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryerglinna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derryerglinna.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derryerglinna, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Derryerglinna.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derryerglinna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Derryerglinna · Doire Oirghlinne
- Area
- 2,668,220 m² (266.82 ha, 659.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Letterfore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 283 people lived in 108 households in the Letterfore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derreighter, Glengowla West, Leam East, Leam West, Lettercraff, Letterfore
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Derryerglinna 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.