Derrymore

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymore, from 369 m² to 189,399 m² (18.94 ha, 46.8 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 Derrymore 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.

• 26 Jun 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey residential extension, with an attached single storey garage structure to the rear and side of the existing dwelling; for the installation of a new proprietary effluent treatment system & percolation area to replace the old style septic tank system & all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661068

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct a new serviced dwelling with effluent treatment system and a domestic garage/shed

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561696

• 17 Nov 2023Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling with effluent treatment system and garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 210 sqm (house) & 50 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361377

• 20 Feb 2019Conditional

  to construct new extension and carry out alterations to existing dwelling and construct domestic garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Ext.) 154 sqm, (Shed) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19228

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works dwelling 184sqm, garage 60sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181227

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 Derrymore.

Recorded monuments

• GA028-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 36m) defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse; the latter survives from W through N to NE. Field boundaries cut the monument at NW and NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Derrymore.

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

Name

Derrymore · Doire Mór

Area

1,603,153 m² (160.32 ha, 396.15 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Donaghpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Donaghpatrick electoral division: 584 people in 210 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh More, Bellanagarraun, Brackloon (Co. Mayo), Corillaun, Dalgan Demesne (Co. Mayo), Shancloon

Placenames

Derrymore 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.