Derryfadda

217 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryfadda, from 58 m² to 3,470,211 m² (347.02 ha, 857.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 66 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 Derryfadda 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.

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  for a recreational development that will consist of the construction of c. 3.1km, off-road shared walkway and cycleway (Greenway) located to the North of Derryfadda Bog. In addition to the construction of a new carpark and entrance upgrades from local road L3406, bicycle parking, pedestrian access paths and all associated drainage, signage, fencing & relevant ancillary site works. An Appropriate Assessment and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared as part of this Planning Application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361528

• 28 Feb 2022Refused

  for a development consisting of the erection of a guyed wind monitoring mast, with instruments, 100m in height for a six year period. The purpose of the proposed mast is to assess the suitability of the company's adjacent lands for wind farm development.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22263

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• GA047-056 Enclosure
  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

• Ballyforan Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Thirteen-arch road bridge, built c.1820, with random coursed stone walls. Cut limestone voussoirs to segmental arch-rings and V-cutwaters up and down stream. Cast-iron tie-bars. Ballyforan Bridge crosses the River Suck, the boarder between Counties Roscommon and Galway.

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 Derryfadda, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Derryfadda · Doire Fada

Area

7,033,195 m² (703.32 ha, 1,737.94 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

229 people lived in 76 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acre East, Ballyforan (Co. Roscommon), Caltraghduff, Cartronkilly (Co. Roscommon), Cloonagh (Co. Roscommon), Derrycahill (Co. Roscommon), Feevagh Beg (Co. Roscommon), Gortananny, Killaderry, Muckloon, Srahgarve, Srahloughra

Placenames

Derryfadda 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.