Derry
Derry is a townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Doire.
- Area
- 58.1 ha
- 143 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 6,902 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derry, from 1,868 m² to 80,314 m² (8.03 ha, 19.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Derry 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
10 May 2021Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING FROM 120SQM TO 205SQM AND WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING FRONT PORCH (10SQM); CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF EXTENSION TO THE REAR (95SQM)WITH A COVERED TERRACE OFF THE LIVING AREA (8SQM); EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS INCLUDING ENLARGEMENT OF EXISTING OPENINGS, REPLACEMENT OF WINDOWS, REPLACEMENT OF ROOF FINISH, EXTERNAL INSULATION AND NEW EXTERNAL FINISHES; GENERAL REPAIRS AND REFURBISHMENT, UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, DRAINAGE, ANCILLARY WORKS AND SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21460
31 May 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF SERVICED DWELLING, GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND STORAGE SHED WITH ASSOCIATED SERVICES ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18400
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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derry.
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 Derry, about 1 in 10 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, partly 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 Derry.
- 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 Derry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derry · An Doire
- Area
- 580,601 m² (58.06 ha, 143.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cong, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Houndswood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 659 people lived in 256 households in the Houndswood electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacgibbon South
- Placenames
- Derry 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.