Derrysheridan
Townland in the civil parish of Killeagh, barony of Fore, Co. Meath
- Area
- 52.5 ha
- 130 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 132,876 m² (13.29 ha, 32.83 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrysheridan, from 3,878 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) to 380,128 m² (38.01 ha, 93.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 2 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Derrysheridan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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: Moneybeg and Clareisland Bogs SAC 002340
- Special Protection Area: Lough Sheelin SPA 004065
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Sheelin 000987
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrysheridan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrysheridan.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrysheridan.
- 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 Derrysheridan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Derrysheridan
- Area
- 524,757 m² (52.48 ha, 129.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fore
- Electoral division
- Killeagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeagh electoral division: 420 people in 152 households; 83% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ross
- Placenames
- Derrysheridan 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.