Derrycorrib
Derrycorrib is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Doire Choirb.
- Area
- 290.3 ha
- 717 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 10,406 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycorrib, from 52 m² to 249,167 m² (24.92 ha, 61.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Derrycorrib 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
30 Mar 2026Conditional
The application will consist of planning permission to (1) Construct new dwelling house, (2) Construct new domestic garage, (3) Construct new wastewater treatment system, (4) Construct new domestic entrance, and (5) Carry out all ancillary works on site.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660236
24 Jan 2024Conditional
The development shall consist of planning permission for the erection of a dwelling house, installation of a proprietary treatment unit including a percolation/tertiary area and to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460017
19 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21770
12 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT NEW PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS FOR SAME, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE OFF LANEWAY AND CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21748
31 Aug 2020N/a
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS FOR SAME, CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC ACCESS TO PROPOSED HOUSE UTILISING AND UPGRADING ENTRANCE TO HOUSE, YARD AND FAMILY FARM, CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20610
20 Jul 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT NEW PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS FOR SAME, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE OFF LANEWAY, CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20485
16 Mar 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE OFF LANEWAY, CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20190
27 Sept 2019Refused
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT PROPRIETY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS FOR SAME, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE OFF LANEWAY AND CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19762
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: Broadhaven Bay SAC 000472
- Special Area of Conservation: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
- Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Broadhaven Bay 000472
Recorded monuments
- MA017-001 Mound
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrycorrib.
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 Derrycorrib, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrycorrib.
- 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 Derrycorrib with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derrycorrib · Doire Choirb
- Area
- 2,903,167 m² (290.32 ha, 717.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Glencastle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 499 people lived in 194 households in the Glencastle electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Alt, Atticonaun, Bunnahowen, Derrynameel, Toorglass
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Derrycorrib 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.