Derrylea

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrylea, from 0 m² to 1,913,623 m² (191.36 ha, 472.87 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 Derrylea 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.

• 12 Jan 2026Conditional

  for the felling of 43 hectares of mature pine forest at Derrylea, Clifden, Co. Galway and restoration measures to raise the water table to re-establish the hydrological conditions for blanket bog vegetation to redevelop. The proposed restoration includes drain blocking using peat dams, stump grinding, stump flipping and surface smoothing techniques and provision of silt fencing and silt traps to minimise the mobilisation of sediment, and the creation of a new forest spur road, provision of temporary water course crossings and ancillary development. The application seeks a 10-year permission in order to allow for phased completion. The site lies adjacent to the Connemara bog Complex Special Area of Conservation and the application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660019

• 4 Nov 2025N/a

  for the felling of 43 hectares of mature pine forest and restoration measures to raise the water table to re-establish the hydrological conditions for blanket bog vegetation to redevelop. The proposed restoration includes drain blocking using peat dams, stump grinding, stump flipping and surface smoothing techniques and provision of silt fencing and silt traps to minimise the mobilisation of sediment and creation of new forest spur road, provision of temporary water course crossings and ancillary development. The application seeks a 10 year permission to allow for phased completion. The site lies within the Connemara bog Complex Special Area of Conservation and the application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561609

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, treatment system and percolation area. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. The works to include all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm (house)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211973

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  for a development which consists of the replacement of existing thatch roof with new slate roof and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211641

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Area of Conservation: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC 002031
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex 002031

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrylea.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Derrylea, about 1 in 5 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 Derrylea.

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

Name

Derrylea · Doire Liath

Area

6,623,197 m² (662.32 ha, 1,636.63 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Derrylea, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Barnanoraun, Cregg, Emlaghmore, Gowlan West, Lettershea, Munga

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Derrylea 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.