Derrymoyle

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymoyle, from 106 m² to 362,983 m² (36.3 ha, 89.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Derrymoyle 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 Apr 2025Conditional

  Retain the change of use of a Games room / Playroom granted under Planning Ref 99464 to a self-contained family living accommodation unit. Full planning permission to construct an extension to the side and rear of same building and all associated site works. This existing building together with the proposed extension is to be used in conjunction with, and for the enjoyment of the existing dwelling.

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560232

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  construct a bay window to the front elevation and a bay window to the side elevation of existing domestic dwelling, minor alterations, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21189

• 27 Aug 2019Conditional

  retain an existing detached domestic shed and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19487

• 12 Aug 2019N/a

  retain a domestic shed and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19462

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 Derrymoyle.

Recorded monuments

• LA032-053 Enclosure
  Description

  Partial cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 32m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 30 December 2019

• LA032-054 Enclosure
  Description

  Partial cropmark of possible enclosure (approx. diam. 45m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 30 December 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Derrymoyle, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2458 (ZIP).

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

Name

Derrymoyle · Doire Maol

Area

568,849 m² (56.88 ha, 140.57 acres)

Civil parish

Killeshin, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Graigue Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,330 people lived in 1,774 households in the Graigue Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 67% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykillen, Garrough, Graigue, Harristown, Sleaty

Placenames

Derrymoyle 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.