Derryfore

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryfore, from 226 m² to 138,921 m² (13.89 ha, 34.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Derryfore 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 Oct 2023Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360444

• 5 Oct 2023Conditional

  construct proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Permission is also sought to amend existing lane entrance to new location and close existing.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360415

• 4 Oct 2023N/a

  construct proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Permission is also sought to amend existing lane entrance to new location and close existing.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360414

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  renovate and extend existing cottage,remove derelict shed, construct new garage, replace existing septic tank with waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all associated works using existing entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360204

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21705

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 Derryfore.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryfore.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Derryfore, about 1 in 20 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 Derryfore.

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

Name

Derryfore · Doire Fuar

Area

879,599 m² (87.96 ha, 217.35 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyroan, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Blandsfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

338 people lived in 113 households in the Blandsfort electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyking, Ballypickas Lower or Bernardsgrove, Ballypickas Upper, Coole or Lisnagomman, Lisnagomman, Rahanavannagh

Placenames

Derryfore 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.