Derrycreeve
Derrycreeve is a townland in the civil parish of Islandeady, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Doire Chraobh.
- Area
- 75.6 ha
- 187 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 38,522 m² (3.85 ha, 9.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycreeve, from 2,064 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 84,941 m² (8.49 ha, 20.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Derrycreeve 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
29 Oct 2025Conditional
change of house type previously granted under planning Ref no. P24/348
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25451
20 Aug 2024Conditional
construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24348
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 Derrycreeve.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrycreeve.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrycreeve.
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 Derrycreeve, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrycreeve.
- 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 Derrycreeve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derrycreeve · Doire Chraobh
- Area
- 756,336 m² (75.63 ha, 186.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Islandeady, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Islandeady, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,079 people lived in 382 households in the Islandeady electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohehs, Carha, Cartronduff, Derrycooraun, Drumminahaha, Kilfea, Letter
- Placenames
- Derrycreeve 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.