# Derrycolumb, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cashel, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish Doire Choilm. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,652,713 m² (165.27 ha, 408.39 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 34,668 m² (3.47 ha, 8.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Cashel, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/cashel.md - Barony: Rathcline - Electoral division: Ledwithstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 379 people lived in 142 households in the Ledwithstown electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32758 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130435 - Centre: latitude 53.582186, longitude -7.858531 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycolumb, from 2,641 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) to 295,220 m² (29.52 ha, 72.95 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 80512: 295,220 m² (29.52 ha, 72.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80512.md - Parcel 4934680: 223,410 m² (22.34 ha, 55.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934680.md - Parcel 68009: 207,638 m² (20.76 ha, 51.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68009.md - Parcel 66408: 165,788 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66408.md - Parcel 76154: 159,236 m² (15.92 ha, 39.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76154.md - Parcel 55801: 157,447 m² (15.74 ha, 38.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55801.md - Parcel 55887: 131,642 m² (13.16 ha, 32.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55887.md - Parcel 78398: 77,898 m² (7.79 ha, 19.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78398.md - Parcel 82097: 67,799 m² (6.78 ha, 16.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/82097.md - Parcel 81851: 39,463 m² (3.95 ha, 9.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81851.md - Parcel 78909: 34,668 m² (3.47 ha, 8.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78909.md - Parcel 74026: 19,803 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74026.md - Parcel 80374: 19,500 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80374.md - Parcel 55786: 17,631 m² (1.76 ha, 4.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55786.md - Parcel 55678: 10,959 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55678.md - Parcel 79539: 6,771 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79539.md - Parcel 4699200: 4,684 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4699200.md - Parcel 3642161: 4,034 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3642161.md - Parcel 57385: 3,663 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57385.md - Parcel 4736099: 3,498 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4736099.md - Parcel 4736107: 2,641 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4736107.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derrycolumb in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 8 Sept 2025, Longford County Council 2539: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a bungalow type timber dwelling, entrance, boundary fence, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2539/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derry Lough, site code 001444 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF022-042: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF022-042----. On a rise in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 38m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 6m; H 0.4-0.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.4-3.4m; D 0.4-0.6m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted an outer bank. A break (Wth 2.2m) in the bank at NE may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrycolumb. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Derrycolumb, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrycolumb. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrycolumb.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrycolumb.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrycolumb.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrycolumb with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Derrindiff: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrindiff.md - Derrylough: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrylough.md - Derrymacar: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrymacar.md - Edera: https://everytownland.com/longford/edera.md - Ledwithstown: https://everytownland.com/longford/ledwithstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrycolumb - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/derrycolumb