Derryduff
Derryduff is a townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Doire Duibhe.
- Area
- 62.4 ha
- 154 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 8,451 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryduff, from 31 m² to 93,719 m² (9.37 ha, 23.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Derryduff 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
No planning application touches the townland of Derryduff in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Derryduff.
Recorded monuments
- LE001-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure described as a ‘Fort’ on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured feature on the 1907 ed. It is situated on top of a small hillock. This is an overgrown subcircular platform (diam. c. 20m) defined by a steep scarp (H 1.4-1.6m). 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
- LE001-040001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a low hillock. Grass covered D-shaped area (dims 20m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) defined by a stony scarp (H 1-1.2m) SW-NW with traces of a stone wall-footing at SW. There is an entrance ramp (Wth 2.4m) at WNW. The monument is truncated by a NW-SE field wall at NE and a NE-SW field wall at SW, but the original diameter was c. 40m. A collapsed stone field wall (LE001- 040002-) extends NW (L 20m; Wth 2.4m; H 0.4m) from the perimeter at SW. 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
- LE001-040002 Field boundary
Description
A collapsed and grass-covered stone field wall (L 20m; Wth 2.4m; H 0.4m) is running NW from the perimeter of rath (LE001-040001-) at SW and is probably contemporary with it. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 December 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derryduff.
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 Derryduff, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1201 (ZIP).
- 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 Derryduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Derryduff · Doire Duibhe
- Area
- 624,099 m² (62.41 ha, 154.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossinver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Tullaghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 755 people lived in 318 households in the Tullaghan electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloodrevagh, Corbeg, Grellagh (Co. Sligo), Mullanyduff, Wardhouse
- Placenames
- Derryduff 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.