# Derrymoyle, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeshin, barony of Slievemargy, Co. Laois; in Irish Doire Maol. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 568,849 m² (56.88 ha, 140.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,987 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeshin, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/killeshin.md - Barony: Slievemargy - Electoral division: Graigue Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28854 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100518 - Centre: latitude 52.847803, longitude -6.956847 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymoyle, from 106 m² to 362,983 m² (36.3 ha, 89.7 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 239171: 362,983 m² (36.3 ha, 89.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239171.md - Parcel 237583: 83,411 m² (8.34 ha, 20.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/237583.md - Parcel 258721: 45,711 m² (4.57 ha, 11.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258721.md - Parcel 248460: 33,157 m² (3.32 ha, 8.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248460.md - Parcel 4878967: 8,017 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4878967.md - Parcel 263641: 3,996 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263641.md - Parcel 229472: 3,343 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/229472.md - Parcel 2387760: 3,333 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2387760.md - Parcel 253882: 3,156 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253882.md - Parcel 4878983: 2,954 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4878983.md - Parcel 4878979: 2,217 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4878979.md - Parcel 232076: 2,095 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232076.md - Parcel 226012: 1,878 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/226012.md - Parcel 235487: 1,657 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/235487.md - Parcel 240212: 1,599 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/240212.md - Parcel 232082: 1,597 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/232082.md - Parcel 249502: 1,445 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/249502.md - Parcel 228632: 1,430 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/228632.md - Parcel 229164: 1,411 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/229164.md - Parcel 225971: 1,387 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/225971.md - Parcel 263835: 1,324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263835.md - Parcel 4878975: 928 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4878975.md - Parcel 255590: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/255590.md - Parcel 247654: 106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/247654.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 23 Apr 2025, Laois County Council 2560232: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560232/0 - 30 Mar 2021, Laois County Council 21189: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21189/0 - 27 Aug 2019, Laois County Council 19487: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain an existing detached domestic shed and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19487/0 - 12 Aug 2019, Laois County Council 19462: N/a. Retention. retain a domestic shed and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/19462/0 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 Derrymoyle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA032-053: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA032-053----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA032-054----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrymoyle. ## 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 Derrymoyle, about 1 in 5 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2458, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2458.zip (ZIP). - 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/derrymoyle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrymoyle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrymoyle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrymoyle 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) - Ballykillen: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballykillen.md - Garrough: https://everytownland.com/laois/garrough.md - Graigue: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigue-100640.md - Harristown: https://everytownland.com/laois/harristown-100670.md - Sleaty: https://everytownland.com/laois/sleaty.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/derrymoyle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/derrymoyle