Derreenageer
Derreenageer is a townland in the civil parish of Drumreilly, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Doirín na gCaor.
- Area
- 58.3 ha
- 144 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 17,200 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreenageer, from 404 m² to 81,184 m² (8.12 ha, 20.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derreenageer 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
18 Jun 2026N/a
renovations to existing building with the proposed construction of a single storey extension to service same, construct new entrance and driveway, construct on-site effluent treatment system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2619
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 Derreenageer.
Recorded monuments
- LE018-074 Sweathouse
Description
Situated on a SW-facing slope and c. 20m N of an abandoned farmhouse. It is marked as a sweathouse only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map with houses also c. 100m to the NW. No feature is visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE019-013 Sweathouse
Description
Located on the W bank of the deep valley of a N-S stream and c. 20m SE of an abandoned farmhouse. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No feature is visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreenageer.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Derreenageer, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derreenageer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Derreenageer · Doirín na gCaor
- Area
- 583,139 m² (58.31 ha, 144.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumreilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Yugan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 238 people lived in 104 households in the Yugan electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 27% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumnafinnila, Greaghnafarna, Largandill, Urbal Barr
- Placenames
- Derreenageer 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.