Derryaroge

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryaroge, from 44,815 m² (4.48 ha, 11.07 acres) to 1,300,985 m² (130.1 ha, 321.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Derryaroge 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 Derryaroge 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 Derryaroge.

Recorded monuments

• LF012-005001 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  A togher (L 12.9m min.; D 0.6m), orientated NW-SE, with a compact superstructure of longitudinal hazel and oak brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.03m), six pieces deep, supported by a transverse substructure of large roundwood (diam. 0.23m max.). In one section, a brushwood hurdle was used as the substructure. Toolmarks visible were quite degraded but may have been made by a stone tool. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF012-005002 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  A togher (Wth 1.26m; D 0.04m), orientated ESE-WNW, consisting of longitudinal hazel brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.035m) one piece deep and in a poor condition. Toolmarks may have been made by a stone implement. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF017-002002 Road - class 2 togher
  Description

  A togher (L 124m; Wth 2.8m; D 0.3m), orientated ENE-WSW, consisting of a single layer of longitudinal ash roundwood (diam. 0.065-0.085m) with some hazel brushwood (av. diam. 0.025m). At its W end it was overlain by a layer of fine sand. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF017-002004 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  A togher (Wth 1.58m; D 0.22m), orientated E-W, consisting of longitudinal roundwood (diam. 0.08-0.1m) and brushwood (av. diam. 0.03m) of ash, hazel and birch. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF017-002005 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  A single oak plank (L 0.64m; Wth 0.41m; D 0.16m), orientated NNE-SSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF017-002006 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  Reported in 1957 by Bord na Móna as a possible togher, at a depth in excess of 1m in the bog, orientated E-W (NMI I.A. 32/57). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Derryaroge, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1573 (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.

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

Name

Derryaroge · Doire an Ghróig

Area

1,542,011 m² (154.2 ha, 381.04 acres)

Civil parish

Killashee, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Mountdavis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

238 people lived in 82 households in the Mountdavis electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Cloonbearla, Cloonbrock, Cloonfore, Cloonkeel, Mount Davys, Rappareehill

Placenames

Derryaroge 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.