Derrintin
Derrintin is a townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Doire an tSoinn.
- Area
- 806.6 ha
- 1,993 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 6,494 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrintin, from 13 m² to 2,780,560 m² (278.06 ha, 687.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Derrintin 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
12 Jul 2024Refused
construction of a forestry standard road entrance
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24272
12 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 3 BAY LOOSE HOUSE SHED AND UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21745
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex SAC 001932
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex 001932
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrintin.
Architectural heritage
- Erriff Bridge, bridge, 1820–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, designed 1823; begun 1828; "unfinished" 1829; completed 1831; extant 1838. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed rock faced limestone ashlar walls between drag edged rock faced sandstone ashlar battered piers with lichen-covered drag edged tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting benchmark-inscribed parapets having tooled cut-limestone rounded coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Owenmore River with unkempt grass banks to river.
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 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (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 Derrintin.
- 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 Derrintin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derrintin · Doire an tSoinn
- Area
- 8,065,576 m² (806.56 ha, 1,993.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghagower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Erriff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 112 people lived in 42 households in the Erriff electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aillebaun, Barnaderg, Derrylea, Glendavock, Glennacally, Letterass, Lettermaglinskin, Srahatloe, Tawnyard
- Placenames
- Derrintin 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.