# Derryfore, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyroan, barony of Cullenagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Doire Fuar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 879,599 m² (87.96 ha, 217.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,124 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyroan, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/ballyroan.md - Barony: Cullenagh - Electoral division: Blandsfort, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27793 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100508 - Centre: latitude 52.91485, longitude -7.283796 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryfore, from 226 m² to 138,921 m² (13.89 ha, 34.33 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 234057: 138,921 m² (13.89 ha, 34.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234057.md - Parcel 240824: 125,988 m² (12.6 ha, 31.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240824.md - Parcel 255841: 104,308 m² (10.43 ha, 25.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255841.md - Parcel 265420: 101,666 m² (10.17 ha, 25.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265420.md - Parcel 233132: 75,463 m² (7.55 ha, 18.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233132.md - Parcel 228056: 32,335 m² (3.23 ha, 7.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228056.md - Parcel 240243: 26,007 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240243.md - Parcel 228995: 24,580 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228995.md - Parcel 263549: 24,223 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263549.md - Parcel 228258: 22,958 m² (2.3 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228258.md - Parcel 263441: 19,614 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263441.md - Parcel 241033: 18,232 m² (1.82 ha, 4.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/241033.md - Parcel 253324: 16,013 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253324.md - Parcel 262333: 15,116 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/262333.md - Parcel 235630: 14,395 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235630.md - Parcel 5436681: 12,638 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5436681.md - Parcel 259326: 12,222 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259326.md - Parcel 255788: 12,124 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255788.md - Parcel 259045: 9,194 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259045.md - Parcel 5896115: 8,298 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5896115.md - Parcel 255787: 8,218 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255787.md - Parcel 255073: 7,746 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255073.md - Parcel 268483: 7,581 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268483.md - Parcel 230662: 7,433 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/230662.md - Parcel 4438718: 7,393 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438718.md - Parcel 3993131: 5,120 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3993131.md - Parcel 4438720: 3,912 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438720.md - Parcel 4776027: 3,615 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4776027.md - Parcel 2458496: 3,391 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2458496.md - Parcel 229237: 1,575 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/229237.md - Parcel 228996: 1,523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/228996.md - Parcel 257910: 1,022 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/257910.md - Parcel 4438716: 485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438716.md - Parcel 5436679: 329 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5436679.md - Parcel 5436680: 226 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5436680.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 23 Oct 2023, Laois County Council 2360444: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dwelling house, treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360444/0 - 5 Oct 2023, Laois County Council 2360415: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360415/0 - 4 Oct 2023, Laois County Council 2360414: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360414/0 - 6 Jun 2023, Laois County Council 2360204: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360204/0 - 14 Oct 2021, Laois County Council 21705: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21705/0 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 Derryfore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryfore. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derryfore. ## 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 Derryfore, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derryfore. - 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/derryfore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/derryfore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/derryfore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derryfore 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) - Ballyking: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyking.md - Ballypickas Lower or Bernardsgrove: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballypickas-lower-or-bernardsgrove.md - Ballypickas Upper: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballypickas-upper.md - Coole or Lisnagomman: https://everytownland.com/laois/coole-or-lisnagomman.md - Lisnagomman: https://everytownland.com/laois/lisnagomman.md - Rahanavannagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/rahanavannagh.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/derryfore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/derryfore