Derrygarran

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygarran, from 331 m² to 308,164 m² (30.82 ha, 76.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Derrygarran 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.

• 6 May 2023Conditional

  for removal of a single storey rear return, the erection of single storey extensions to the front and rear of, and internal modifications to the existing single storey dwelling, and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360162

• 5 Feb 2019Conditional

  (a). construct an agricultural shed with underground slatted storage tanks including cubical livestock housing (b). construct a milking parlour and meal bin along with all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1967

• 28 Jan 2019N/a

  (a) construct an agricultural shed with underground slatted storage tanks including cubicle livestock housing (b) construct a milking parlour and meal bin along with all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1939

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 Derrygarran.

Recorded monuments

• LA013-006 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 20m) marked on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is defined by a bank (ext. H 1.3m) at N and E. The site is overgrown with trees and has been used as a dump. 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

• LA013-024 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps; a semicircular enclosure (max. diam. c. 40m NW-SE). No 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

• LA013-125 Burial
  Description

  The files of the National Museum of Ireland records that in February 2000 human remains were discovered during quarrying operations at Derrygarran, Co. Laois (Cahill & Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 489-90). The site was reported to the Gardaí at Portlaoise, but the National Museum was not informed until April of that year. The site had previously been inspected by the State Pathologist, Professor John Harbison, and his analysis of the bones indicated that they were the remains of a young adult aged 18 to 25 years at death. A site investigation was carried out by Mary Cahill in April. The skeleton was apparently found at the base of the topsoil, at a depth of 0.3-0.45m below the original ground level. There was no indication of the presence of other burials on the site and it was not possible to investigate the find place of this burial as the area had been completely disturbed. The remains (2000:11) were handed over to the Museum by Professor John Harbison (NMI File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 10 August 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Derrygarran.

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

Name

Derrygarran · Doire na nGarrán

Area

1,430,663 m² (143.07 ha, 353.52 acres)

Civil parish

Straboe, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Shaen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shaen electoral division: 1,001 people in 326 households; 95% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydavis, Kilminchy, Ratheven, Rathnamanagh, Shaen, Straboe

Placenames

Derrygarran 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.