Derreens
Townland in the civil parish of Annagh, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish Na Doiríní
- Area
- 72 ha
- 178 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 4,192 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreens, from 85 m² to 79,684 m² (7.97 ha, 19.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derreens 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
4 Nov 2024Conditional
Planning Permission to demolish rear extension and porch, extend dwelling house, alter elevations, upgrade foul treatment system, all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460671
16 May 2017Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE GRANTED UNDER P08/1122 & P08/11220 WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17366
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 Derreens.
Recorded monuments
- MA103-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
In hilly undulating pasture, with good views over lowlying land to N. An embanked circular enclosure (diam. 35-40m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, but not on later map editions. At this location there is an elongated rise (c. 18m E−W; c. 40m N−S) which resembles a gently domed hillock. Faint undulations at the base at E and S appear to be remnants of an enclosing scarp. It is crossed on the W side by a field boundary on a roughly N−S axis. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 October 2022
- MA103-005 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
In hilly undulating pasture, with good views over lowlying land to N. Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; shown on the 1916 edition as a wooded subcircular enclosure. A broadly oval area (c. 50m E−W; c. 43m N−S) incorporating a low rounded hillock with a relatively small area of level ground (diam. 10-15m) on the summit, from which ground falls away gently on the S half (H c. 2m) and more steeply on the N side (H c. 3m). A scarp (H 0.8-1m at S) is cut into the base of the slope; it is well defined and quite vertical faced and may originally have been faced with stones. A shallow quarry pit (diam. c. 10m) cuts into the NW slope, and a small portion of the enclosing scarp at E has also been dug away. The trees shown on the 1916 map are gone. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 October 2022
- MA103-006 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
In hilly undulating pasture, incorporating a natural hillock with excellent views. Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; shown on the 1916 edition as a wooded subcircular enclosure. An earthen bank/scarp (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m at SW), ringed with mature beech and ash trees and some scrub, encloses the top and steep N-facing slope of a hillock. The enclosed subcircular space (diam. c. 50-55m) has an oblong flattish area in the centre from which ground falls steeply to NW, N and NE. Three quarry pits (10-15m across) cut deeply into the N, E and S slopes. At N the base of the hillock is incorporated into an E−W field fence. The interior is grassy with clumps of brambles and overgrowth and a few hawthorn and ash trees. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 October 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreens.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_790 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derreens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derreens · Na Doiríní
- Area
- 719,708 m² (71.97 ha, 177.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyhaunis electoral division: 3,531 people in 1,219 households; 53% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Agloragh, Cloonbullig, Holywell Lower, Lisduff, Pattenspark
- Placenames
- Derreens 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.