Derrykill West
Townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Doire Choill Thiar
- Area
- 83.2 ha
- 205 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 3,134 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrykill West, from 369 m² to 251,038 m² (25.1 ha, 62.03 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derrykill West 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
1 Apr 2025Conditional
The development consists of 1.) the retention of alterations to dwelling house and attached garage previously granted planning permission under P81/1876 and 2.) Planning permission for conversion of the attached garage to an independent living unit/granny flat, together with a new wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works and services.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560184
27 Jan 2025N/a
The development consists of the retention of first floor accommodation with minor revisions to the floor plans and elevations including relocation of garage to be used as an independent living unit/ granny flat including all ancillary site works which will include upgrading the existing septic tank and percolation area.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560040
28 Aug 2024Conditional
construction of a new single storey dwelling, garage, septic tank/effluent treatment unit and percolation area/polishing filter bed together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24357
3 Nov 2017Conditional
ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17872
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: Newport River SAC 002144
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrykill West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrykill West.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_241 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrykill West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derrykill West · Doire Choill Thiar
- Area
- 831,625 m² (83.16 ha, 205.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burrishoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Newport East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newport East electoral division: 1,318 people in 516 households; 68% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bleachyard, Camcloon Beg, Derrykill East, Drummannaglieve, Letterlough, Tawnanameeltoge, Tawnawoggaun
- Placenames
- Derrykill West 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.