# Derreens, Co. Leitrim: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inishmagrath, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Doirín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 601,773 m² (60.18 ha, 148.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 110,192 m² (11.02 ha, 27.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Inishmagrath, https://everytownland.com/leitrim/parish/inishmagrath.md - Barony: Drumahaire - Electoral division: Drumkeeran, the unit of the census - County: Co. Leitrim, https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/29677 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 110525 - Centre: latitude 54.161273, longitude -8.145443 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreens, from 1,313 m² to 227,211 m² (22.72 ha, 56.15 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 620413: 227,211 m² (22.72 ha, 56.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/620413.md - Parcel 592473: 150,226 m² (15.02 ha, 37.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/592473.md - Parcel 633292: 149,772 m² (14.98 ha, 37.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/633292.md - Parcel 626594: 70,613 m² (7.06 ha, 17.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/626594.md - Parcel 2399113: 1,770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2399113.md - Parcel 3714974: 1,313 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714974.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derreens 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) 1 application, newest first. - 29 Jul 2020, Leitrim County Council 20120: Conditional. Permission. development located in the townlands of Bargowla, Boleymaguire, Braudphark, Derreens, Derrybofin, Derrycullinan, Derrycullinan Beg, Drummanacappul, Garvagh, Garvagh Glebe, Glassalt, Lisfuiltaghan, Seltan, Sheena and Tinnybeg, County Leitrim consisting of : (a) Construction of 8 No. Wind turbines with a maximum overall blade tip height of up to 170 metres, and associated hard-stand areas; (b) 1no. 38kV permanent electrical substation including a control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, security fencing, all associated underground cabling, waste water holding tank and all ancillary works; (c) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed wind farm substation; (d) all works associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid, via underground cabling to the existing Garvagh substation; (e) upgrade of existing tracks and roads, provision of new site access roads and hard-stand areas; (f) the partial demolition and alteration of two agricultural buildings in the townlands of Sheena and associated junction access and road works to the existing yard, agricultural buildings and agricultural lands in the townlands of Sheena and Derrybofin to provide link road primarily for construction traffic off the R280. this link road will be for the delivery of abnormal roads to the site during the construction period and may be used during the operational period if necessary or to facilitate the decommissioning of the wind farm. Following construction, access to the link road will be closed off and the yard / agricultural building will revert to its use for agricultural purposes except if and when required for delivery of abnormal loads during the operation period of the wind farm or to facilitate the decommissioning of the wind farm (g)1 no. borrow pit; (h) 2 no. peat and spoil repository areas; (i)2 no. temporary construction compounds; (j) recreation and amenity works including marked trails, boardwalk and viewing area, provision of a permanent amenity car park, and associated recreation and amenity signage; (k) site drainage; (l) permanent signage, (m) ancillary forestry felling to facilitate construction and operation of the proposed development and (n) all associated site development works. An Environment Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the proposed development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LeitrimCC/AppFileRefDetails/20120/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owengar Wood, site code 001419 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derreens. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreens. ## 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 Derreens, 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 Derreens. - 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/leitrim/derreens.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/derreens.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/derreens.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derreens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim: https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Barragh More: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/barragh-more.md - Derrybofin: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/derrybofin.md - Derrycullinan: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/derrycullinan.md - Drummanacappul: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/drummanacappul.md - Sheena: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/sheena.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/leitrim/derreens - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/leitrim/derreens