Derryfalone
Derryfalone is a townland in the civil parish of Barronstown, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Doire Mhaoileoin.
- Area
- 65.4 ha
- 162 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 46,285 m² (4.63 ha, 11.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryfalone, from 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 208,560 m² (20.86 ha, 51.54 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 Derryfalone 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
25 Feb 2026Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of Outline Permission - 22384 - for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660092
24 Apr 2024Refused
Permission for: (i) Works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands to facilitate use for agricultural purposes. (ii) All associated works and services. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit/Certificate of Registration from Louth County Council which will be applied for separately
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460221
16 Apr 2024N/a
Permission for: (i) Works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands to facilitate use for agricultural purposes. (ii) All associated works and services. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit/Certificate of Registration from Louth County Council which will be applied for separately
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460203
16 May 2022Conditional
outline permission sought for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22384
30 Apr 2021N/a
Outline permission sought for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21505
9 Oct 2020Refused
Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20806
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 Derryfalone.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryfalone.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derryfalone.
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 Derryfalone, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Derryfalone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Derryfalone · Doire Mhaoileoin
- Area
- 654,239 m² (65.42 ha, 161.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Barronstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Barronstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barronstown, Clonaleenaghan, Cunnicar, Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield
- Placenames
- Derryfalone 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.