Derrynaseera
Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish Doire na Saortha
- Area
- 268 ha
- 662 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 4,460 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynaseera, from 89 m² to 256,238 m² (25.62 ha, 63.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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
No zone of a development plan covers Derrynaseera 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 May 2025Conditional
Remove existing floodlights and provide 4 no. new energy efficient LED floodlighting systems and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560288
15 Jun 2021Conditional
retain amendment as previously granted under planning ref. no's 06/18 & 10/451 to include upstairs extension, changes to windows and doors in side and rear elevations, windows added to roof, front entrance relocated. retaining wall at front of house
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21435
30 Oct 2020Conditional
renovate and extend existing house consisting of altering existing fenestration and front door and constructing a single storey extension to the side and rear, upgrading existing percolation area and all associated and necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20562
4 Jul 2018Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all ancillary and necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18393
12 Apr 2018N/a
construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, new entrance and all ancillary and necessary site works , also planning permission for a new agricultural entrance
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18224
4 Jan 2018Conditional
construction an extension to an existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 185
28 Dec 2017N/a
construction an extension to an existing dwelling
Permission · Laois County Council, 17720
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
- LA016-013 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of oval-shaped enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 158-9). 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrynaseera.
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 high, 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 Derrynaseera.
- 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 Derrynaseera with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Derrynaseera · Doire na Saortha
- Area
- 2,680,496 m² (268.05 ha, 662.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Offerlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperwoods
- Electoral division
- Coolrain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coolrain electoral division: 328 people in 119 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh, Ballyhorahan, Crannagh, Derryduff, Glebe, Gossbrook, Larch Hill, Tinnakill
- Placenames
- Derrynaseera 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.