Derrycanton

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycanton, from 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 229,596 m² (22.96 ha, 56.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Derrycanton 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.

• 23 Dec 2023Conditional

  retain existing 2 no. portakabins and shipping container currently used as dressing rooms, and new planning permission for 4 no light standards and fittings; new astro pitch and surrounding palisade fencing; and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460004

• 2 Nov 2023N/a

  retain existing 2 no. portakabins and shipping container currently used as dressing rooms, and new planning permission for 4 no light standards and fittings; new astro pitch and surrounding palisade fencing; and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2360466

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  (1) Retain existing 2 no. portakabins and shipping container currently used as dressing rooms for a period of 2 years and (2) Permission for new clubhouse facility with wastewater treatment system and all associated and ancillary works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19309

• 23 Feb 2017Conditional

  erect two sections of ball stop fencing along the north and west boundaries (40m and 30m long respectively) The ball stop fencing shall be 6m high and comprise of nylon netting supported with 6mm diameter steel rope top and bottom on 8.5m high poles anchored at both ends.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1797

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 Derrycanton.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrycanton.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Derrycanton.

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

Name

Derrycanton · Doire Chantúin

Area

1,468,837 m² (146.88 ha, 362.96 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Clonin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonin electoral division: 243 people in 84 households; 90% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Badgerhill, Clonincurragh, Dysartbeagh, Mountrath

Placenames

Derrycanton 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.