Derrymacoffin

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymacoffin, from 206 m² to 103,147 m² (10.31 ha, 25.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Derrymacoffin 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derrymacoffin 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrymacoffin.

Recorded monuments

• LE024-030 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an area of rock outcrop and pasture with the S shore of the north part of St John's Lough c. 30m to the N. It is depicted as an oval enclosure (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) and described as a 'fort' on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level on a flat-topped rise (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 15m N-S). 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: 13 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1660 (ZIP).

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 Derrymacoffin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Derrymacoffin · Doire Mhic Dhuibhín

Area

487,297 m² (48.73 ha, 120.41 acres)

Civil parish

Fenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Castlefore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlefore electoral division: 237 people in 89 households; 89% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavadden, Corrabeagh, Kiltybardan, Muckros, Tomloskan

Placenames

Derrymacoffin 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.