Derry
Derry is a townland in the civil parish of Nantinan, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Doire.
- Area
- 59.5 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 27,548 m² (2.75 ha, 6.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derry, from 1,965 m² to 118,569 m² (11.86 ha, 29.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Derry 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
8 Apr 2026Conditional
the construction of a granny flat and rear extension to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660397
10 Apr 2025Conditional
a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25113
10 Jun 2021N/a
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21811
10 Jun 2021N/a
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21812
10 Jun 2021N/a
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21813
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballymorrisheen Marsh 001425
Recorded monuments
- LI020-136 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Roughly rectangular area (37m N-S; 33.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m) SE->W and by collapsed dry-stone wall (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.45m) NE->SW. Wall is best preserved (H 0.8m) where it runs along outer base of bank SE->SW. Dense vegetation cover obscures enclosing element W->NE. Low rubble wall (H 0.3m; Wth. 1m) runs along top of bank SSW->SW. Interior, covered with trees and nettles, dips towards centre. Recent dwelling adjacent to W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derry.
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 5 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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_550 (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 Derry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Derry · Doire
- Area
- 595,095 m² (59.51 ha, 147.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Nantinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Nantinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 714 people lived in 254 households in the Nantinan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardtomin, Ballingarrane, Ballybaun, Ballymorrisheen, Boolaglass, Deanstown, Nantinan
- Placenames
- Derry 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.