# Derries, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monasteroris, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Doire Chod. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 6,885,075 m² (688.51 ha, 1,701.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,719 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monasteroris, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/monasteroris.md - Barony: Coolestown - Electoral division: Edenderry Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41692 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180567 - Centre: latitude 53.311805, longitude -7.004787 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derries, from 122 m² to 2,571,799 m² (257.18 ha, 635.51 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2492117: 2,571,799 m² (257.18 ha, 635.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2492117.md - Parcel 4644016: 2,292,821 m² (229.28 ha, 566.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4644016.md - Parcel 284084: 297,567 m² (29.76 ha, 73.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284084.md - Parcel 2492124: 212,045 m² (21.2 ha, 52.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2492124.md - Parcel 291230: 198,876 m² (19.89 ha, 49.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291230.md - Parcel 281444: 173,741 m² (17.37 ha, 42.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281444.md - Parcel 5568311: 172,773 m² (17.28 ha, 42.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5568311.md - Parcel 4657886: 140,130 m² (14.01 ha, 34.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4657886.md - Parcel 2492130: 67,960 m² (6.8 ha, 16.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2492130.md - Parcel 277248: 57,610 m² (5.76 ha, 14.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277248.md - Parcel 268861: 57,383 m² (5.74 ha, 14.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268861.md - Parcel 293443: 57,371 m² (5.74 ha, 14.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293443.md - Parcel 295916: 51,958 m² (5.2 ha, 12.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295916.md - Parcel 299714: 29,243 m² (2.92 ha, 7.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299714.md - Parcel 2389063: 24,880 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2389063.md - Parcel 300332: 16,633 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300332.md - Parcel 2484387: 15,995 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2484387.md - Parcel 287125: 15,699 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287125.md - Parcel 308136: 15,060 m² (1.51 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308136.md - Parcel 5918741: 14,771 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5918741.md - Parcel 295000: 12,331 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295000.md - Parcel 4657879: 10,949 m² (1.09 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4657879.md - Parcel 311827: 10,870 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311827.md - Parcel 276653: 10,639 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276653.md - Parcel 306477: 10,190 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306477.md - Parcel 4657876: 8,664 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4657876.md - Parcel 4657874: 8,558 m² (0.86 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4657874.md - Parcel 2389062: 7,719 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2389062.md - Parcel 312923: 7,398 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312923.md - Parcel 295271: 7,155 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295271.md - Parcel 4638771: 6,512 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638771.md - Parcel 303477: 5,788 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303477.md - Parcel 5499609: 5,023 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5499609.md - Parcel 313547: 4,765 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313547.md - Parcel 302623: 4,524 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302623.md - Parcel 4222478: 4,209 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222478.md - Parcel 273288: 3,867 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273288.md - Parcel 2492123: 3,670 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2492123.md - Parcel 275232: 3,626 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275232.md - Parcel 271700: 3,531 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271700.md - Parcel 294373: 3,394 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294373.md - Parcel 5227192: 2,879 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5227192.md - Parcel 301410: 2,796 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301410.md - Parcel 299326: 2,489 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299326.md - Parcel 271059: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271059.md - Parcel 269023: 2,009 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269023.md - Parcel 285082: 1,991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/285082.md - Parcel 269965: 1,953 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/269965.md - Parcel 281279: 1,804 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/281279.md - Parcel 5714443: 1,640 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5714443.md - Parcel 277115: 1,279 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/277115.md - Parcel 296195: 1,140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/296195.md - Parcel 301232: 933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301232.md - Parcel 4657883: 240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4657883.md - Parcel 300937: 122 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/300937.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 17 Oct 2024, Offaly County Council 2460412: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460412/0 - 11 Oct 2024, Offaly County Council 2460401: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460401/0 - 11 Jul 2022, Offaly County Council 22346: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22346/0 - 2 Jun 2020, Kildare County Council 20307279: N/a. N/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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20307279/0 - 16 Jul 2018, Offaly County Council 18306: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18306/0 - 2 Jun 2017, Offaly County Council 17195: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17195/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: The Long Derries, Edenderry SAC, site code 000925, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000925 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Long Derries, Edenderry, site code 000925 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF012-009: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF012-009----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derries. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derries-180567.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derries-180567.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derries-180567.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derries with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cloncanon: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloncanon.md - Clonkeen (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/clonkeen.md - Codd: https://everytownland.com/offaly/codd.md - Cushaling: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cushaling.md - Ticknevin (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/ticknevin.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derries-180567 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/derries-180567