# Derrydarragh, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cashel, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish Doire Darach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 984,272 m² (98.43 ha, 243.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,964 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cashel, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/cashel.md - Barony: Rathcline - Electoral division: Cashel West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32593 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130436 - Centre: latitude 53.565692, longitude -7.953858 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrydarragh, from 56 m² to 98,867 m² (9.89 ha, 24.43 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 52278: 98,867 m² (9.89 ha, 24.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52278.md - Parcel 54899: 61,311 m² (6.13 ha, 15.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54899.md - Parcel 61501: 51,831 m² (5.18 ha, 12.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61501.md - Parcel 73474: 45,396 m² (4.54 ha, 11.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/73474.md - Parcel 79512: 40,355 m² (4.04 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79512.md - Parcel 53809: 37,328 m² (3.73 ha, 9.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53809.md - Parcel 79739: 37,188 m² (3.72 ha, 9.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79739.md - Parcel 78127: 36,828 m² (3.68 ha, 9.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78127.md - Parcel 55441: 35,587 m² (3.56 ha, 8.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55441.md - Parcel 75713: 32,857 m² (3.29 ha, 8.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75713.md - Parcel 54589: 29,997 m² (3 ha, 7.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54589.md - Parcel 59022: 25,076 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59022.md - Parcel 59013: 24,828 m² (2.48 ha, 6.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59013.md - Parcel 58176: 24,738 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58176.md - Parcel 63201: 24,573 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63201.md - Parcel 70081: 20,295 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70081.md - Parcel 59904: 19,610 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59904.md - Parcel 57392: 18,295 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57392.md - Parcel 76249: 15,505 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76249.md - Parcel 76445: 14,833 m² (1.48 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76445.md - Parcel 58567: 14,177 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58567.md - Parcel 72073: 12,366 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72073.md - Parcel 56828: 12,058 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56828.md - Parcel 61210: 11,687 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61210.md - Parcel 56143: 9,997 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56143.md - Parcel 77412: 9,993 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77412.md - Parcel 59163: 9,755 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59163.md - Parcel 71119: 7,032 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71119.md - Parcel 5453497: 6,032 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5453497.md - Parcel 62460: 5,964 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/62460.md - Parcel 56792: 5,456 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56792.md - Parcel 74098: 5,330 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74098.md - Parcel 75424: 4,652 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75424.md - Parcel 62181: 4,620 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/62181.md - Parcel 2502838: 4,200 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2502838.md - Parcel 78623: 4,077 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78623.md - Parcel 51844: 3,978 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/51844.md - Parcel 2629231: 3,653 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2629231.md - Parcel 71214: 3,640 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71214.md - Parcel 71374: 3,622 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71374.md - Parcel 72261: 3,224 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72261.md - Parcel 76666: 3,031 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76666.md - Parcel 62532: 2,785 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/62532.md - Parcel 68496: 2,648 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/68496.md - Parcel 82307: 2,568 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/82307.md - Parcel 84982: 2,475 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84982.md - Parcel 75807: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/75807.md - Parcel 72782: 1,962 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/72782.md - Parcel 61182: 1,924 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/61182.md - Parcel 74980: 1,866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/74980.md - Parcel 60798: 1,686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/60798.md - Parcel 74265: 1,651 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/74265.md - Parcel 61308: 1,383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/61308.md - Parcel 61160: 1,153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/61160.md - Parcel 78453: 263 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/78453.md - Parcel 67217: 181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/67217.md - Parcel 71393: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/71393.md - Parcel 62459: 117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/62459.md - Parcel 72809: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/72809.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Derrydarragh 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) No planning application touches the townland of Derrydarragh in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC, site code 000440, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000440 - Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA, site code 004064, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004064 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree, site code 000440 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Slawn, site code 001443 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF025-001001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF025-001001-. On low-lying ground close to the shore of an inlet of Lough Ree. This spring well is within a circular setting (diam. 1.6m) defined by a mortared stone wall (H 0.45m; Wth 0.52m). The top of the wall has recently been capped with concrete. The entrance is at S where two steps lead down to the water. A holy bush (LF025-001003-) is associated. A mass-rock (LF025-001002-) lies c. 33m to the SSE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013 - LF025-001002: Mass-rock, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF025-001002-. Circa 33m to the SSE of a holy well (LF025-001001-). This mass-rock consists of a roughly shaped, squared limestone boulder (max. H 0.65m; 1.15m NE-SW; 0.9m NW-SE). Its SW end is incised with the letters 'BM' (Blessed Mary) in the style of late-18th/early 19th-century gravestone inscriptions. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013 - LF025-001003: Ritual site - holy tree/bush, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF025-001003-. Associated with a holy well (LF025-001001-), c. 3m to its SSW. Rags, holy medals, coins, rosary beads and statuettes have been hung on this bush. A mass-rock (LF025-001002-) lies c. 30m to the SSE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013 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) - Summersit, house, 1850–1880, Regional interest, registry number 13402501, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13402501. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, having lean-to porch to the centre of the front elevation (northwest), flat-roofed canted timber framed bay window to southwest elevation, flat-roofed three-bay two-storey addition to west side of rear (southeast) elevation, and single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to east side of rear elevation. Iron water tank over extension to the rear (southeast). Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging corbelled eaves with paired timber brackets, and having pair of stepped cut limestone chimneystacks to the centre of the roof with moulded limestone coping over. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Timber panelled double doors to base of bay window. Decorative render to doorway with panelled Doric pilasters and console brackets flanking half-glazed timber panelled door with shouldered overlight above. Set in extensive mature grounds with walled garden to rear and complex of outbuildings (13402502) to the east, main entrance gate to the east, and the rubble stone boundary wall to the east and the south. Located to the south of Lanesborough and to the west of Ballymahon. House overlooks Lough Ree to the north. - Summersit, outbuilding, 1850–1890, Regional interest, registry number 13402502, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13402502. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings associated with Summersit (13402501), built c. 1885, arranged around a courtyard to the east of the main house. Comprises five-bay two-storey coach house to the north side of the courtyard, and a single-storey range to the west having a two-bay single-storey block to the north end and a two-bay two-storey block/former hayloft attached to the south end. Corrugated-metal lean-to addition to the centre of the single-storey block to the west. Pitched natural slate roof to two-storey former coach house having raised cut limestone verges to gable ends and a cut limestone chimneystack to the east gable end. Rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings having timber and metal-framed windows and timber battened doors, and having tooled limestone lintels and sills. Segmental-headed carriage to the centre (south elevation) having cut limestone block-and-start surround, cut limestone voussoirs and double-leaf corrugated-metal doors. Corrugated-metal roof to single-storey range to the west side of courtyard, and with hipped slate roofs to the two-storey block to the south end of range and to the single-storey block to the north end. Rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings having timber windows and battened timber doors. Rubble limestone boundary walls to yard, with dressed limestone stile to east wall. Cut limestone gate piers on square-plan to entrance to northwest corner of courtyard, having moulded capstones and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Pedestrian entrance to north wall with timber battened door and having rounded cut stone lintel over. Stile built into boundary wall to the east side of complex. Walled garden on rectangular-plan to rear (south) having rubble limestone enclosing walls, and wrought-iron pedestrian gate to east wall. - Summersit, gates/railings/walls, 1870–1900, Regional interest, registry number 13402503, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13402503. Rubble limestone boundary walls associated with Summersit House (13402501), built c. 1885. Vernacular gateway to the south end of the wall comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate posts having a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Gateway to the north, serving house, comprising a pair of rebuilt rubble limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having reused wrought-iron flat bar gates. Recent stile to wall to north. Holy well (‘Lady Well’ - LF025-001001-), holy bush (LF025-001003-), and mass rock/penal altar (LF025-001003-) located adjacent to north end of north wall. Located to the east of Summersit House, and to the west of Ballymahon. ## 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 Derrydarragh, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrydarragh. - 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/derrydarragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrydarragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/derrydarragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrydarragh 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) - Carrowrory: https://everytownland.com/longford/carrowrory.md - Cartoon: https://everytownland.com/longford/cartoon.md - Collum: https://everytownland.com/longford/collum.md - Culnagore: https://everytownland.com/longford/culnagore.md - Lismagawley: https://everytownland.com/longford/lismagawley.md - Lismagawley Bog: https://everytownland.com/longford/lismagawley-bog.md - Portanure Bog: https://everytownland.com/longford/portanure-bog.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/derrydarragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/derrydarragh