# Derrycarrow, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Doire Craith Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,104,222 m² (210.42 ha, 519.96 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,344 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Offerlane, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/offerlane.md - Barony: Upperwoods - Electoral division: Arderin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 292 people lived in 89 households in the Arderin electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28275 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100503 - Centre: latitude 53.014692, longitude -7.607241 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycarrow, from 131 m² to 528,454 m² (52.85 ha, 130.58 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 263717: 528,454 m² (52.85 ha, 130.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263717.md - Parcel 254931: 476,270 m² (47.63 ha, 117.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254931.md - Parcel 242128: 176,123 m² (17.61 ha, 43.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242128.md - Parcel 251712: 154,791 m² (15.48 ha, 38.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251712.md - Parcel 227315: 143,427 m² (14.34 ha, 35.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227315.md - Parcel 237365: 142,039 m² (14.2 ha, 35.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237365.md - Parcel 245323: 101,956 m² (10.2 ha, 25.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245323.md - Parcel 263275: 74,276 m² (7.43 ha, 18.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263275.md - Parcel 229480: 72,775 m² (7.28 ha, 17.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229480.md - Parcel 232224: 65,023 m² (6.5 ha, 16.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232224.md - Parcel 266499: 62,033 m² (6.2 ha, 15.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266499.md - Parcel 229530: 48,353 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229530.md - Parcel 4438830: 44,487 m² (4.45 ha, 10.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438830.md - Parcel 258879: 29,687 m² (2.97 ha, 7.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258879.md - Parcel 262103: 26,413 m² (2.64 ha, 6.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262103.md - Parcel 3098812: 19,424 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3098812.md - Parcel 238026: 10,080 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238026.md - Parcel 262959: 9,581 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262959.md - Parcel 227998: 9,322 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227998.md - Parcel 232828: 6,987 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232828.md - Parcel 228498: 5,930 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228498.md - Parcel 3107059: 4,884 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3107059.md - Parcel 264677: 4,671 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264677.md - Parcel 257162: 4,605 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257162.md - Parcel 266211: 4,344 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266211.md - Parcel 238589: 3,525 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238589.md - Parcel 5291528: 2,898 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5291528.md - Parcel 2455958: 2,872 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2455958.md - Parcel 5478245: 2,546 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5478245.md - Parcel 230570: 2,270 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230570.md - Parcel 239341: 1,889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/239341.md - Parcel 255053: 1,754 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/255053.md - Parcel 252135: 1,681 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/252135.md - Parcel 254864: 1,647 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/254864.md - Parcel 4438687: 1,645 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438687.md - Parcel 258667: 1,585 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/258667.md - Parcel 233592: 1,540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/233592.md - Parcel 4950402: 1,185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950402.md - Parcel 259507: 1,004 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/259507.md - Parcel 266670: 774 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/266670.md - Parcel 5291527: 710 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5291527.md - Parcel 264955: 675 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/264955.md - Parcel 4950397: 649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950397.md - Parcel 261559: 421 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/261559.md - Parcel 259818: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/259818.md - Parcel 259506: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/259506.md - Parcel 227293: 199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/227293.md - Parcel 262835: 165 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/262835.md - Parcel 259816: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/259816.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derrycarrow 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) 1 application, newest first. - 25 Aug 2026, Laois County Council 2660570: N/a. Retention, 1 home. retain dwellinghouse as constructed and retain septic tank and percolation area as installed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660570/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA016-002: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA016-002----. A circular platform (diam. c. 15.6m, H. c. 12m) surrounded by a shallow fosse (Wth c. 3.6m) from SW to E. No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007 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 Derrycarrow. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Derrycarrow, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrycarrow. - 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/derrycarrow.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrycarrow.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrycarrow.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrycarrow 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) - Aghduff: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghduff.md - Camross: https://everytownland.com/laois/camross.md - Cappanarrow: https://everytownland.com/laois/cappanarrow.md - Derrinduff: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrinduff.md - Longford: https://everytownland.com/laois/longford.md - Rossnacreena: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossnacreena.md - Rossnadough: https://everytownland.com/laois/rossnadough.md - Srahanboy: https://everytownland.com/laois/srahanboy.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/derrycarrow - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/derrycarrow