Derrymore

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymore, from 31 m² to 113,585 m² (11.36 ha, 28.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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.

• 17 Jul 2019N/a

  to demolish the existing derelict dwelling house, remove its associated septic tank, demolish the existing storage shed and construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 218 sqm, Garage - 60sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: House - 87 sqm, Shed - 29 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191083

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  to extend existing slatted shed to include a feeding passage and underground effluent storage tank facilities and all associated site works. Gross floor area 195m2

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18531

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

• GA005-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a prominent tree-covered knoll in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (NW-SE 38m, NE-SW 26m) defined by a bank from S through W to N; a tree-lined scarp forms the enclosing element elsewhere. A probable souterrain (GA045-044001-) is associated. (Neary 1914, 117, no. 58) 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

• GA005-044001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within ringfort (GA005-044----). According to Neary (1914, 117, no. 58), this ringfort 'contains a souterrain'. No visible surface trace survives. 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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, 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

743,937 m² (74.39 ha, 183.83 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore North electoral division: 604 people in 221 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyland North, Cappagh, Carrownaseer North, Carrownaseer South, Castlefarm, Prospect

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.