Derryfadda Lower

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryfadda Lower, from 2,217 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 97,142 m² (9.71 ha, 24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Derryfadda Lower 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.

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA CONNECTED TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 171042

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derryfadda Lower.

Recorded monuments

• MA100-139 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On slight rise, in rough pasture. Circular area (47m N-S; 46m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m), with shallow external fosse (Wth 0.2m) on E and W. Gaps in bank on SE and S. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 156. Date of upload: 13 February 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derryfadda Lower.

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

At the centre of the townland of Derryfadda Lower, about 1 in 5 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 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 Derryfadda Lower.

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.

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

Name

Derryfadda Lower · Doire Fhada Íochtarach

Area

1,227,528 m² (122.75 ha, 303.33 acres)

Civil parish

Tagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Tagheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

187 people lived in 69 households in the Tagheen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnacally, Boleybeg, Cloonagh, Cornalassan, Cornanagh, Derryfadda Upper, Oory

Placenames

Derryfadda Lower 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.