Derry Upper

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derry Upper, from 133 m² to 4,653,496 m² (465.35 ha, 1,149.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derry Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derry Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Special Area of Conservation: Bellacorick Bog Complex SAC 001922
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bellacorick Bog Complex 001922

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derry Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Deel Bridge, bridge, 1809–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Tuck pointed coursed cut-limestone walls centred on tooled limestone ashlar rounded triangular cutwater to pier having grass-covered capping with lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone "Torus" stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone coping. Pair of elliptical arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Deel River with unkempt 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derry Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Derry Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Derry Upper · Doire Uachtair

Area

6,987,387 m² (698.74 ha, 1,726.62 acres)

Civil parish

Crossmolina, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Derry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derry electoral division: 202 people in 79 households; 92% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altnabrocky, Derry Lower, Lackalustraun, Muingaghel, Tubbrid More

Placenames

Derry Upper 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.