Derryhoyle More

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryhoyle More, from 83 m² to 301,427 m² (30.14 ha, 74.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derryhoyle More 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.

• 5 May 2023Conditional

  for: 1) extension to rear of existing dwelling house, 2) changes to elevations including changes to external door styles previously granted under planning ref. no.'s 99/178 & 99/603 and permission for a new window on the western elevation and 3) replacement of the existing septic tank and percolation system with a new wastewater treatment sytem including proprietary treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360467

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derryhoyle More.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-132 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In reclaimed pastureland. Known locally as a ‘lios’, this very poorly preserved and much-collapsed roughly oval cashel (c. 35m N-S; c. 30m WNW-ENE) is obscured throughout by overgrowth. A children's burial ground (GA104-132001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

• GA104-132001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel (GA104-132----) that, according to the landowner, is regarded as a children's burial ground. No grave-markers are visible. Some boulders in the interior appear to be from the cashel wall. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

• GA104-133 House - indeterminate date
  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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derryhoyle More.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Derryhoyle More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Derryhoyle More · Doire Thuathail Mór

Area

1,012,277 m² (101.23 ha, 250.14 acres)

Civil parish

Lickerrig, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilconickny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilconickny electoral division: 678 people in 217 households; 93% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackgarden, Coolraugh, Crossderry, Derryhoyle Beg, Knockroe, Lecarrow, Reaskmore

Placenames

Derryhoyle More 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.