Derrygile
Townland in the civil parish of Ardea, barony of Portnahinch, Co. Laois; in Irish Doire Gaill
- Area
- 321 ha
- 793 acres
- Land parcels
- 125
- registered freehold, median 5,063 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- C6
- Industrial and Warehousing
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygile, from 87 m² to 244,526 m² (24.45 ha, 60.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C6Industrial and Warehousing (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jul 2025Conditional
retain an existing garage/store and fuel shed
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2552
24 Jan 2025Conditional
construct Slatted shed with crush yard and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560036
7 Dec 2024N/a
construct Slatted shed with crush yard and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2460743
4 Jun 2024Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING THE CONVERSION FOR USE AS PART OF THE HOUSE OF THE GARAGE, INCLUDING THE REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING ROOF AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460307
28 Jul 2023Conditional
retain the following: 1) existing bay window located to the front elevation and existing side extension to our existing dwelling, 2) existing attic conversion to a study & storage area, 3) existing domestic garage, 4) existing fuel & storage shed, 5) existing side entrance located on the southern boundary, 6) revised site boundaries, together with all ancillary services and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23225
21 Jul 2023N/a
retain the following: 1) existing bay window located to the front elevation and existing side extension to our existing dwelling, 2) existing attic conversion to a study & storage area, 3) existing domestic garage, 4) existing fuel & storage shed, 5) existing side entrance located on the southern boundary, 6) revised site boundaries, together with all ancillary services and associated site works
Retention · Laois County Council, 23215
17 May 2022Conditional
A. change use of the existing agricultural stable building to 2 No. short-term let holiday homes, B. construct an extension and alterations to the existing building, C. install a new onsite wastewater treatment system, the formation of a new entrance, and all associated site works
Permission, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 22305
8 May 2020Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20216
27 Nov 2017Conditional
construct a new single storey three bedroom dwelling, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17637
24 Nov 2017N/a
construct new single storey three-bedroom dwelling, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 17633
28 Jul 2017Conditional
construct proposed new dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17406
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrygile.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrygile.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrygile.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Derrygile.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrygile with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Derrygile · Doire Gaill
- Area
- 3,210,399 m² (321.04 ha, 793.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Portnahinch
- Electoral division
- Mountmellick Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mountmellick Rural electoral division: 1,090 people in 383 households; 94% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Acragar, Ballycullenbeg, Clonsoghey, Derrycloney, Kyletalesha, Sronagh
- Placenames
- Derrygile 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.