Derryherk

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryherk, from 225 m² to 155,249 m² (15.52 ha, 38.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derryherk 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.

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC FUEL STORE & GARDEN/HOBBY ROOM PERMISSION IS FURTEHR SOUGHT UNDER THE SAME APPLICATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS..

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460268

• 18 Dec 2018Conditional

  development consisting of (a) Demolition of existing single storey dwelling and decommission of existing effluent treatment system; (b) Construction of one and a half storey dwelling house and domestic garage with provision of access road; (c) provision of new effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18276

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Melvin SAC 000428
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Melvin 000428

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryherk.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derryherk.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Derryherk.

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.

No address of the register names Derryherk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Derryherk · Doire Thoirc

Area

2,019,920 m² (201.99 ha, 499.13 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Gubacreeny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gubacreeny electoral division: 803 people in 316 households; 69% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Askill, Boyannagh, Cornaglah, Lareen

Placenames

Derryherk 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.