# Derryvorrigan, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Doire Mhuireagáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 966,696 m² (96.67 ha, 238.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,465 m² (1.45 ha, 3.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghaboe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/aghaboe.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Borris-In-Ossory, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,012 people lived in 381 households in the Borris-In-Ossory electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28708 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100524 - Centre: latitude 52.927004, longitude -7.604547 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryvorrigan, from 43 m² to 120,609 m² (12.06 ha, 29.8 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 227324: 120,609 m² (12.06 ha, 29.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227324.md - Parcel 254315: 120,453 m² (12.05 ha, 29.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254315.md - Parcel 3389205: 97,155 m² (9.72 ha, 24.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3389205.md - Parcel 250087: 92,019 m² (9.2 ha, 22.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250087.md - Parcel 263105: 85,618 m² (8.56 ha, 21.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263105.md - Parcel 232331: 73,512 m² (7.35 ha, 18.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232331.md - Parcel 246756: 72,340 m² (7.23 ha, 17.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/246756.md - Parcel 4290949: 68,469 m² (6.85 ha, 16.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4290949.md - Parcel 4290989: 60,551 m² (6.06 ha, 14.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4290989.md - Parcel 2501991: 58,136 m² (5.81 ha, 14.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501991.md - Parcel 3389199: 28,062 m² (2.81 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3389199.md - Parcel 4290995: 18,580 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4290995.md - Parcel 4290952: 14,465 m² (1.45 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4290952.md - Parcel 4962452: 11,457 m² (1.15 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4962452.md - Parcel 239793: 9,497 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239793.md - Parcel 4291006: 9,112 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4291006.md - Parcel 2501994: 8,362 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501994.md - Parcel 4291003: 4,601 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4291003.md - Parcel 263428: 3,937 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263428.md - Parcel 4290969: 2,932 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4290969.md - Parcel 2501992: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501992.md - Parcel 245552: 1,924 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/245552.md - Parcel 2501995: 1,455 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501995.md - Parcel 246650: 1,271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/246650.md - Parcel 4290951: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4290951.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derryvorrigan 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 23 Nov 2017, Laois County Council 17630: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. provide an extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, this extension is to be provided with an A-Type roof, it is also proposed that a similar A-Type roof will be provided to an existing shed which adjoins the proposed extension, RETENTION permission is also sought for an existing domestic garage, together with all ancillary site services and associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17630/0 - 15 Nov 2017, Laois County Council 17607: N/a. Permission. provide an extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, this extension is to be provided with an A-Type roof, it is also proposed that a similar A-Type roof will be provided to an existing shed which adjoins the proposed extension, RETENTION permission is also sought for an existing domestic garage, together with all ancillary site services and associated site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/17607/0 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 Derryvorrigan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA022-039001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA022-039001-. Natural spring well known as St. Kieran's Well consists of a circular shaft sunken into the ground which is encased within a drystone wall. The well was dry at time of inspection with no evidence of any votive offerings in the fill of the well. A large tree and hawthorn bush mark the site of this well. According to the local landowner this hawthorn bush was known locally as St. Kierans Bush. The well is located near the base of a hill on the N facing slope with the remains of Knockseera church (LA022-013001-) and graveyard (LA022-013002-) and St. Kieran's Bush (LA022-013005-) located 300m to the S. Theis monument is 'a holy well, and was formerly frequented on the 5th of March' (Carrigan 1905 vol. 2, 130). The M7 motorway is located to the N of the well the construction of which may have caused the well to dry up. 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision 09 March 2010 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 Derryvorrigan. ## 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 Derryvorrigan, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derryvorrigan. - 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/derryvorrigan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/derryvorrigan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/derryvorrigan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derryvorrigan 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) - Barnasallagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/barnasallagh.md - Doon: https://everytownland.com/laois/doon-100530.md - Grange Beg: https://everytownland.com/laois/grange-beg.md - Knockseera: https://everytownland.com/laois/knockseera.md - Sentryhill: https://everytownland.com/laois/sentryhill.md - Townparks: https://everytownland.com/laois/townparks-101098.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/derryvorrigan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/derryvorrigan