Derries

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derries, from 122 m² to 2,571,799 m² (257.18 ha, 635.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Derries 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.

• 17 Oct 2024Refused

  a new single storey dwelling house with detached garage with fuel storage, tertiary treatment system and infiltration /treatment area, site entrance, site boundaries with landscaping details and all ancillary site works/services.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460412

• 11 Oct 2024N/a

  development will consist of a new single storey dwelling house with detached garage with fuel storage, tertiary treatment system and infiltration /treatment area, site entrance, site boundaries with landscaping details and all ancillary site works/services

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460401

• 11 Jul 2022Conditional

  (A) CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC STORAGE SPACE TO HABITABLE ROOM, (B) INCREASED ROOF HEIGHT, (C) 30M2 OF GARDEN SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 22346

• 2 Jun 2020N/a

  (ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307279.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Allen Bog Group located in counties Offaly, Westmeath, Laois and Kildare

  N/a · Kildare County Council, 20307279

• 16 Jul 2018Conditional

  (A) ERECTION OF BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING (B) GARAGE / FUEL STORE FOR DOMESTIC USE (C) THE INSTALLATION OF A SEPTECH 2000 TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS ON SITE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER FILE REFERENCE 07/1200

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18306

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  (A) ERECTION OF ONE AND A HALF STOREY TYPE DWELLING (B) ERECTION OF GARAGE/ FUEL STORE FOR DOMESTIC USE (C) INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH TERTIARY TREATMENT IN A SAND FILTER PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17195

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: The Long Derries, Edenderry SAC 000925
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Long Derries, Edenderry 000925
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• OF012-009 Enclosure
  Description

  In an area now being worked by Bord Na Mona. Not easily accessible since laneway into vicinity of site has been destroyed. Doubtful if site was of archaeological interest and is now almost certainly destroyed. Potential enclosure identified from aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 457/8). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Derries, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derries.

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 Derries with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Derries · Doire Chod

Area

6,885,075 m² (688.51 ha, 1,701.34 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteroris, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Edenderry Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

890 people lived in 288 households in the Edenderry Rural electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncanon, Clonkeen (Co. Kildare), Codd, Cushaling, Ticknevin (Co. Kildare)

Placenames

Derries 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.