Dernacart

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dernacart, from 1,321 m² to 221,996 m² (22.2 ha, 54.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Dernacart 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 Feb 2020Refused

  construct up to 8 no. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 185 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas; 1 no. on-site electrical substation; 1 no. temporary construction compound; all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site electrical substation; provision of new site access tracks and upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage; erection of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of up to 110m in heights; works to facilitate the delivery of turbines adjacent to the N80 within the townlands of Dernacart and Forest Upper to include the laying of temporary surfacing; tree felling; and all associated site development works, ancillary works and equipment. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years and an operational life of 30 years from the date of commissioning of the entire wind farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2078

• 23 Dec 2019N/a

  develop a wind farm and all associated site works within the townlands of Dernacart, Forest Upper and Forest Lower, Co. Laois. The development will consist of: up to 8 no. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 185 meters and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas; 1 no. on-site electrical substation, 1 no. temporary construction compound; all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site electrical substation; provision of new site access tracks and upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage; erection of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast of up to 110m in height; works to facilitate the delivery of turbines adjacent to the N80 within the townland of Dernacart and Forest Upper to include the laying of temporary surfacing; tree felling; and all associated site development works, ancillary works and equipment. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years and an operational life of 30 years from the date of commissioning of the entire wind farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been in prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19732

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  (a) retain and complete garage workshop. (b) retain the following: dry goods store, entrance, driveway and hard standing , clay mound, domestic garage as constructed and (c) PLANNING PERMISSION to reinstate pipe in existing drain and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17624

• 26 Jun 2017N/a

  (a) permission to retain and complete garage workshop. (b) retain the following: dry goods store, entrance, driveway and hard standing , clay mound, domestic garage as constructed and (c) planning permission to reinstate pipe in existing drain and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17333

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dernacart.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dernacart, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Dernacart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Dernacart · Doire na Cairte

Area

631,425 m² (63.14 ha, 156.03 acres)

Civil parish

Castlebrack, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Graigue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 89 households in the Graigue electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappabeg, Cappaneary, Clonaghadoo, Forest Upper, Garrymore, Laught or Commons, Nyra

Placenames

Dernacart 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.