Derrynaskea
Derrynaskea is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommock, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Doire na Sciath.
- Area
- 214.7 ha
- 531 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 95,129 m² (9.51 ha, 23.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynaskea, from 42,564 m² (4.26 ha, 10.52 acres) to 1,835,553 m² (183.56 ha, 453.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Derrynaskea 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
19 Oct 2023Conditional
continued use of an existing guyed wind monitoring mast, with instruments, 100m in height for a further period of three years. The purpose of the mast is to assess the suitability of the company's adjacent lands for wind farm development. Previous planning application numbers: 15/86 and 20/183 on its lands
Retention · Longford County Council, 23108
14 Aug 2020Conditional
continued use of an existing guyed wind monitoring mast, with instruments, 100m in height for a further period of three years, the purpose of the mast is to assess the suitability of the company's adjacent lands for wind farm development, previous planning application number 15/86
Retention · Longford County Council, 20183
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrynaskea.
Recorded monuments
- LF018-081013 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.2m; D 0.2m), orientated NW-SE, consisting of longitudinal roundwood and brushwood of ash and hazel. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084012 Road - class 2 togher
Description
A togher (L 45m; Wth 1.4m; D 0.26m), orientated NW-SE, composed of longitudinal ash roundwood. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084013 Road - class 2 togher
Description
A togher (L 40m; Wth 1.2m; D 0.1m), orientated NW-SE, consisting of longitudinal roundwood and brushwood of ash 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
- LF018-084014 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.2m; D 0.3m), orientated E-W, consisting of longitudinal and transverse brushwood of hazel with occasional birch rods. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084015 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.4m; D 0.08m), orientated ENE-WSW, consisting of longitudinal brushwood of birch, hazel and ash (diam. 0.025m max.). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084016 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.2m; D 0.18m), orientated NE-SW, consisting of longitudinal brushwood, mostly of hazel (diam. 0.016-0.037m). There was a single worked end with possible metal toolmarks and a hazel rod with a heel, which may have indicated coppicing. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084017 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.7m; D 0.15m), orientated NE-SW, composed of longitudinal brushwood and roundwood of ash, hazel and birch (diam. 0.028-0.075m). A possible metal toolmark was evident but it was poorly preserved. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084018 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.1m; D 0.05m), orientated ESE-WNW, composed of longitudinal brushwood of birch and ash (diam. 0.022-0.037m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084019 Road - class 2 togher
Description
A togher (L 121m; Wth 1.1m; D 0.1m), orientated ENE-WSW, consisting of longitudinal and occasional transverse brushwood of birch and hazel (diam. 0.013-0.035m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084020 Road - class 2 togher
Description
A togher (L 50m; Wth 1.1m; D 0.13m), orientated ENE-WSW, composed of longitudinal brushwood and roundwood. The brushwood was of hazel, birch and occasionally ash (diam. 0.03-0.05m) and had twelve to eighteen growth rings. The roundwood (diam. 0.06-0.08m) was of ash and birch, which had up to 80 growth rings. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084021 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.6m; D 0.035m), orientated E-W, consisting of longitudinal and occasional transverse brushwood of hazel with some 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
- LF018-084022 Road - class 2 togher
Description
A togher (L 20m; Wth 4m; D 0.2m), orientated E-W, composed of transverse and longitudinal brushwood and roundwood of birch, hazel and ash (diam. 0.022-0.06m). It was situated above two other toghers (LF018-084023-) and (LF018-093----). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084023 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 4m; D 0.45m), orientated E-W, composed of longitudinal and transverse brushwood and roundwood of birch, hazel and oak. A single peg and half-split hazel roundwood (diam. 0.115m) were noted in the drain face. The monument lies directly below one togher (LF018-084022-) and above another (LF018-093----). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084024 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 2.8m; D 0.25m), orientated E-W, composed of longitudinal and transverse brushwood and roundwood of birch, ash, oak and hazel (diam. 0.015-0.095m). A hazel peg (L 1m; diam. 0.025m), with possible metal toolmarks, was evident. The togher was located directly above another togher (LF018-084026-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084025 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.8m; D 0.25m), orientated ESE-WNW, composed of longitudinal hazel brushwood with some birch (diam. 0.01-0.025m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084026 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 4.6m; D 0.25m), orientated E-W, consisting of longitudinal and transverse brushwood and roundwood (diam. 0.01-0.12m). The wood included birch, ash, oak and hazel with growth rings varying from three to 36. The togher was located directly below another togher (LF018-084024-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084027 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 1.1m; D 0.12m), orientated ENE-WSW, consisting of longitudinal brushwood of birch, ash and hazel (diam. 0.025-0.06m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084028 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 2.25m; D 0.15m), orientated E-W, consisting of longitudinal and transverse brushwood of birch and hazel (diam. 0.017-0.095m) with a single peg. Several damaged toolmarks were evident, one of which had a metal-cut, jamb curve. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084041 Road - class 2 togher
Description
Excavation of this togher (L 90m min.; Wth 2.1m; D 0.15m) revealed a substructure of longitudinal, half-split oak planks supported on transverse timbers and longitudinal, oak and ash roundwood (av. diam. 0.1m). Pegs of hazel, ash and birch were evident throughout the structure but most were positioned along the edges of the planks. The superstructure consisted of longitudinal, ash and hazel brushwood (diam. 0.04-0.055m), which had clear evidence of coppicing. Dendrochronological dating of several planks yielded a felling date of 974 BC (Q8498). The togher was orientated NW-SE (Moloney et al. 1993, 33-6). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084042 Road - class 2 togher
Description
A togher (L 25m; Wth 1.45m; D 0.2m), orientated NW-SE, composed of a single layer of oak and ash roundwood. The outer rings of the ash displayed a very slow growth pattern. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084048 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated NW-SE (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084049 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084050 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated NW-SE (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084051 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated NE-SW (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084052 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084053 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084071 Burnt spread
Description
In bogland. A spread (L 4.4m; Wth 5m; D 0.08m) of yellow/orange peat ash was noted along the face of a drain and on the field surface. In many places the ash was covered by stratified peat and may be evidence of an episode of burning in the bog. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 22 November 2011
- LF018-084072 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated N-S (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084073 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084074 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084075 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084076 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084077 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated NE-SW (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084078 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated NW-SE (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084079 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated E-W (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084080 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated E-W (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084081 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084082 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988, orientated ENE-WSW (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084083 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084084 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084085 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084086 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084087 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084088 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-084089 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF018-093 Road - class 3 togher
Description
This togher was situated below two other toghers (LF018-084022-) and (LF018-084023-). No other details are available. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF022-070 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF022-071 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1988 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). 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 Derrynaskea.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Derrynaskea, about 1 in 20 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrynaskea.
- 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 Derrynaskea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Derrynaskea · Doire na Sciath
- Area
- 2,146,984 m² (214.7 ha, 530.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moydow
- Electoral division
- Cashel East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 278 people lived in 114 households in the Cashel East electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloontamore, Coolnahinch, Corlea, Derryglogher, Derryoghil, Mosstown
- Placenames
- Derrynaskea 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.