# Derry, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Straboe, barony of Maryborough East, Co. Laois; in Irish Doire. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,727,113 m² (172.71 ha, 426.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,154 m² (0.82 ha, 2.01 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Straboe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/straboe.md - Barony: Maryborough East - Electoral division: Kilcolmanbane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kilcolmanbane electoral division: 627 people in 208 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28489 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100495 - Centre: latitude 53.01887, longitude -7.248913 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derry, from 604 m² to 420,637 m² (42.06 ha, 103.94 acres); 38 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 249584: 420,637 m² (42.06 ha, 103.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249584.md - Parcel 227583: 297,596 m² (29.76 ha, 73.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227583.md - Parcel 258893: 211,803 m² (21.18 ha, 52.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258893.md - Parcel 246925: 190,078 m² (19.01 ha, 46.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246925.md - Parcel 4948232: 140,009 m² (14 ha, 34.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4948232.md - Parcel 2457099: 83,155 m² (8.32 ha, 20.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2457099.md - Parcel 229550: 67,905 m² (6.79 ha, 16.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229550.md - Parcel 228017: 57,358 m² (5.74 ha, 14.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228017.md - Parcel 233817: 43,804 m² (4.38 ha, 10.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233817.md - Parcel 253089: 40,611 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253089.md - Parcel 257318: 26,445 m² (2.64 ha, 6.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257318.md - Parcel 2457101: 22,095 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2457101.md - Parcel 264814: 21,017 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264814.md - Parcel 256806: 17,505 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/256806.md - Parcel 5171250: 16,394 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5171250.md - Parcel 2537807: 12,308 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2537807.md - Parcel 230748: 8,154 m² (0.82 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230748.md - Parcel 254949: 7,015 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254949.md - Parcel 262399: 6,456 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262399.md - Parcel 243013: 5,075 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243013.md - Parcel 4020706: 4,445 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4020706.md - Parcel 243126: 4,431 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243126.md - Parcel 237491: 4,415 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237491.md - Parcel 2456056: 3,225 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2456056.md - Parcel 262115: 2,624 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262115.md - Parcel 259835: 2,329 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259835.md - Parcel 237138: 2,319 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237138.md - Parcel 4905189: 2,319 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905189.md - Parcel 263140: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263140.md - Parcel 259929: 822 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/259929.md - Parcel 4905179: 812 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905179.md - Parcel 245596: 649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/245596.md - Parcel 4905186: 604 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4905186.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derry in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 24 Mar 2026, Laois County Council 2660163: Conditional. Permission. develop at Portlaoise GAA, Rathleague, Portlaoise, Co. Laois, R32 Y160. The proposed development will consist of amendments to the permission granted by Laois County Council under LCC Reg. Ref. 25/60304 as follows: (1) The replacement of 4 no. permitted handball alleys with 2 no. equipment storage rooms; (2) The addition of 2 no. ball alleys/striking alleys, measuring c.366.3 sqm, to the southern façade; (3) An external ball wall 30m in width is proposed to the permitted south-eastern façade; (4) The relocation of the permitted pumping station on the southern façade; (5) The extension of the permitted precast south-eastern façade wall to conceal the proposed ball alleys and the relocated pumping station; (6) c.60 sqm of additional floor space at loft level above first floor level for the accommodation of plant/mechanical equipment; (7) Black ventilation louvres above external doors of the indoor training pitch and additional roof vent popups; (8) Modification of the roof overhang structure to incorporate rainwater downpipes in lieu of rain chains; (9) Omission of 1 no. external door to plant room; (10) External roller shutter door to the southeastern elevation; (11) A reduction of 2 no. car parking spaces from the permitted 227 no. spaces to 225 no. proposed spaces (incl. 11 no. accessible spaces, 21 no. EV spaces, 1 no. EV accessible space), 3 no. motorcycle spaces, 4 no. bus spaces, 1 no. dedicated accessible set down space and standard set down spaces; (12) A reduction of 2 no. bicycle parking spaces from the permitted of 227 no. spaces to 225 no. proposed spaces; (13) Signage to the northwestern façade consisting of Portlaoise lettering and club logo; (14) Updated layout of Pitches 2 and 3 including associated landscape and additional scoreboard; (15) All associated site development, civil and landscaping works to include the provision of grasscrete overrun surfacing at the main entrance.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660163/0 - 1 Sept 2025, Laois County Council 2560543: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a Proposed Dwelling House, Garage, Site Entrance, Septic Tank & Percolation Area and to include all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560543/0 - 16 May 2025, Laois County Council 2560298: N/a. Permission. develop the following • Demolition of existing structures on site to include existing clubhouse and associated outbuildings (c. 1,567 sqm overall); • Construction of a new clubhouse, grandstand, and indoor training facility measuring c.10,122 sqm GFA to include: an indoor training field (c. 6,175 sqm), changing rooms, communal areas, café/merchandise shop, town hall, gym, physio room, comms room, a function room and associated kitchen, bar, 2 no. meeting rooms, 4 no. outdoor handball courts, plant rooms, ESB substation, and ancillary storage rooms; • Amendments to the layouts of existing 5 no. natural grass outdoor training pitches, including spectator fencing and 400 LUX floodlighting to 1 no. natural grass pitch, realignment of ball stop netting, and associated works; • Conversion of existing grass pitch to 1 no. all weather synthetic pitch, with the inclusion of new floodlights (400 LUX), spectator fencing, ball stop netting and associated works; • Provision of 4 no. dug outs and 2 no. scoreboards; • 1 no. spectator seating terrace measuring 11.16m in height with seating capacity for c. 420 no. spectators; • Relocation of the existing car park to provide 227 no. car parking spaces (to incl. 13 no. accessible spaces and 23 no. EV spaces), bus set down area and 4 no. bus sparking spaces, with additional overflow parking available; • Works to the R425 road to provide traffic calming measures in the form of concrete buildouts, islands, a pedestrian crossing, and associated line marking and signage; • The re-design of the existing vehicular entrance along the R425 road to provide pedestrian/cycle access; • Provision of a new emergency vehicle entrance only onto the R425; • Provision of 227 no. cycle parking spaces; • Provision of static storage for firefighting; • Amendments to and the extension of the existing amenity track and lighting; • All associated boundary treatments including the retention of existing hedgerow along all boundaries; • All associated site development works and services, including foul water pumping station and rising main, irrigation well with pump, and all associated hard and soft landscaping including mounding, footpaths, pitch fencing, planting and landscaping works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560298/0 - 7 Nov 2024, Laois County Council 2460672: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. constuct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460672/0 - 26 Mar 2019, Laois County Council 19169: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct new dwelling house with septic tank, bored well and percolation area, domestic garage and new site entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19169/0 - 12 Sept 2017, Laois County Council 17494: Conditional. Retention. construct a spectator viewing stand to pitch number 1, a two meter wide walking track, six number new 21.34m high flood lighting masts to pitch number four and the relocation of current flood lighting from pitch number four to pitch number five including all associated site works. Retention permission is also sought for the following items: A) Ball Wall, B) Gymnasium, C) Temporary Dressing Rooms, D) Three number store containers, E)Machinery Shed, F)Two dug outs to pitch 4, G) Septic tank and percolation area, H) the omission of the second exit to the south -western boundary and changes to the site as constructed including playing fields and boundary from previous application Ref :08/739. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17494/0 - 7 Apr 2017, Laois County Council 17164: N/a. Permission, 1 home. erect a spectator viewing stand, a two-meter-wide walking track, six number new 21.34 meter-high flood lighting masts to pitch number four and the relocation of current flood lighting from pitch number four to pitch number five including all associated site works. RETENTION permission is also sought to retain the existing Gymnasium, ball wall and temporary dressing rooms. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17164/0 - 14 Mar 2017, Laois County Council 17130: N/a. Permission. erect a spectator viewing stand, a two-meter-wide walking track, eight number new twenty-five-meter-high flood lighting masts to pitch number four and the relocation of current flood lighting from pitch number fur to pitch number five including all associated site works. RETENTION permission is also sought to retain the existing Gymnasium, ball wall and temporary dressing rooms. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17130/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derry. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA013-113001: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA013-113001-. This excavation consisted of one of three areas of fulacht fiadh or burnt spread material (LA013-113; LA013-113002-) along a 125m stretch of the Portlaoise Bypass. There were no surface indications such as a mound prior to machine stripping to suggest the existence of a possible fulacht fia. Referred to in the excavation report as site 2 which consisted of a pit, circular, 1.2m in diameter, 0.2m deep, filled with 85% stones, a D-shaped spread of stony fulacht fiadh material, and a series of shallow trenches 50-100mm deep crossing the spread, forming cultivation ridges. The remainder of this monument still survives intact beneath the surface outside the area of the roadtake. Site was excavated by C. Duffy in 1995 under excavation licence no. 95E092. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007 - LA013-113002: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA013-113002-. This excavation consisted of one of three areas of fulacht fiadh or burnt spread material (LA013-113; LA013-113001-) along a 125m stretch of the Portlaoise Bypass. There were no surface indications such as a mound prior to machine stripping to suggest the existence of a possible fulacht fia. Referred to in the excavation report as site 3 which had a spread of fulacht fia material of indeterminate shape, also apparently crossed by cultivation trenches. The deposit here was 10-250mm deep. At both sites 2 (LA013-113001-) and 3 the deposit ran into the baulk at the edge of the take of the road, so neither planning nor excavation of these features could be completed. There were no surface mounds prior to excavation, no finds or animal bones; the sites were in a boggy depression. Site was excavated by C. Duffy in 1995 under excavation licence no. 95E092. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007 - LA018-073: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA018-073----. In reclaimed grassland. Cropmark of D-shaped area (approx. dims. 43m N-S x 43m E-W) with straight side at S enclosed by a bank with external ditch visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 23 November 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derry. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Derry. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/derry-100495.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/derry-100495.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/derry-100495.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymackan: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballymackan.md - Dysart: https://everytownland.com/laois/dysart.md - Hophall: https://everytownland.com/laois/hophall.md - Kilcolmanbane: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilcolmanbane.md - Rathleague: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathleague.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/derry-100495 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/derry-100495