Derrybrack
Townland in the civil parish of Annaduff, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Doire Breac
- Area
- 80.7 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 2,476 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrybrack, from 451 m² to 321,235 m² (32.12 ha, 79.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Derrybrack 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
5 Nov 2025Conditional
alterations to as built development previously approved under planning reference P.04/1529 which includes retention permission for (a) house position, (b) alterations to plans/elevations of existing dwelling, including external staircase to rear elevation (c) position of Waste water treatment system (d) site entrance together with planning permission to provide new percolation area at revised location and associated site works
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2560268
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Boderg And Lough Bofin 001642
Recorded monuments
- LE035-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a low rise on the SW-facing slope of a drumlin overlooking the NW-SE section of the River Shannon between Lough Tap to the NW and Lough Boderg to the SE. This is an overgrown circular earthen platform (int. diam. 37m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (at E: int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m), with traces of a fosse SE-SW. The original entrance is not identified. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrybrack.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrybrack.
- 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 Derrybrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Derrybrack · Doire Breac
- Area
- 806,614 m² (80.66 ha, 199.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annaduff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Annaduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Annaduff electoral division: 249 people in 90 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Derrybrack 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.