Derrykeel

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrykeel, from 1,111 m² to 217,094 m² (21.71 ha, 53.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Derrykeel 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derrykeel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Drummin Wood SAC 002181
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA129-013 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In pastureland on the N shoulder of a low hill. This well-preserved roughly D-shaped children's burial ground (18m E-W; 14.5m N-S) is unenclosed apart from an ENE-WSW running field boundary which forms its N limits. Numerous small set stones, marking graves, run in roughly N-S rows. There is also a large quantity of loose stones. One large inscribed slab (H 1.09m; Wth 0.51m) is dedicated to two infants of the Peirse family who died 1806 and 1807. According to local information, the burial ground was in use up to c. 1962. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Derrykeel, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derrykeel · Doire Chaoil

Area

2,389,731 m² (238.97 ha, 590.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeacanty, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kilbeacanty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

357 people lived in 121 households in the Kilbeacanty electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derreen, Derrywee West, Drummin, Gorteenboy, Lahardaun

Placenames

Derrykeel 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.