Derrymore

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymore, from 568 m² to 397,949 m² (39.79 ha, 98.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Derrymore 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.

• 10 Jul 2019N/a

  proposed replacement of existing single storey dwelling house, septic tank & soak pit with a two storey type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system with percolation area together accessing same via widening the existing vehicular entrance & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19184

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrymore Bog 000447

Recorded monuments

• LF019-001 Moated site
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A raised rectangular area (c. 48m NE-SW; c. 42m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) with a partially infilled intervening fosse (Wth 3.5m; max. D 0.8m), and traces of an outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.4m) at NW. At SW this bank has been modified and incorporated into the townland boundary. Elsewhere it has been levelled. At the W corner is a partially collapsed bastion (4.5m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE; H 0.6m) with evidence of wall-facing on its SE side. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 May 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Derrymore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Derrymore · Doire Mór

Area

1,482,566 m² (148.26 ha, 366.35 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Ardagh West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh West electoral division: 509 people in 173 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymakeegan, Clooncaulfield, Drumlougher, Feraghfad, Graffoge, Nappagh, Trillickacurry

Placenames

Derrymore 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.