Derraugh
Derraugh is a townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Doire Each.
- Area
- 131.9 ha
- 326 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 12,138 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derraugh, from 394 m² to 167,955 m² (16.8 ha, 41.5 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derraugh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Apr 2024Conditional
construct an extension to side of dwelling house, to include dining room, utility and bedroom with ensuite
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2450
10 Apr 2024N/a
construct an extension to side of dwelling house, to include dining room, utility and bedroom with ensuite
Permission · Laois County Council, 2448
17 May 2023Conditional
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site work at Derraugh, Mountrath, Co Laois. Note, This site previously granted under planning reference PL19/92.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360172
13 Feb 2019Conditional
construct a bungalow, storage shed, wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all associated and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1992
18 Dec 2018Conditional
construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, new septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18757
19 Apr 2018Conditional
(1) retain existing dwelling house, domestic shed, septic tank and all associated site works, (2) PERMISSION to extend and renovate existing dwelling house, new domestic garage and associated site works, (3) PERMISSION to demolish existing domestic shed
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18241
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derraugh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derraugh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derraugh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derraugh, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2029 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derraugh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Derraugh · Doire Each
- Area
- 1,319,127 m² (131.91 ha, 325.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough West
- Electoral division
- Trumra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 284 people lived in 90 households in the Trumra electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonenagh, Derry Beg, Derry More, Redcastle, Trumra
- Placenames
- Derraugh 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.