Derrypark
Derrypark is a townland in the civil parish of Ballinchalla, barony of Ross, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Páirc an Doire.
- Area
- 117.3 ha
- 290 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 19,438 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrypark, from 233 m² to 82,543 m² (8.25 ha, 20.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Derrypark 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
16 May 2025Conditional
The extension and renovation of the existing part built derelict dwelling, together with the construction of a new domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560299
19 Feb 2023Conditional
Retain existing dwellinghouse.
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360034
5 Oct 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING NON-HABITABLE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18763
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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
- Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774
Recorded monuments
- MA116A002 Children's burial ground
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 Derrypark.
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 Derrypark, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrypark.
- 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 Derrypark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derrypark · Páirc an Doire
- Area
- 1,172,783 m² (117.28 ha, 289.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinchalla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ross
- Electoral division
- Owenbrin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 213 people lived in 97 households in the Owenbrin electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derry, Shanvallycahill
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Derrypark 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.