Derrydolney

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrydolney, from 1 m² to 1,165,646 m² (116.56 ha, 288.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derrydolney 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.

• 2 Jun 2026N/a

  the construction of a livestock underpass and effluent holding tank at Derrydolney Killcormac, Birr Co. Offaly. The project involves works beneath the N52, including associated site works and the repositioning of the existing northern farm entrance to facilitate the new underpass

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660292

• 11 May 2026N/a

  Construction of a livestock underpass and effluent holding tank at Derrydolney, Killcormac, Birr, Co. Offaly. The project involves works beneath the N52, including associated site works and the repositioning of the existing northern farm entrance to facilitate the new underpass

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660262

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460351

• 8 Feb 2023Conditional

  TO BUILD NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2344

• 19 Aug 2022Conditional

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22425

• 20 Jul 2022N/a

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22357

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21787

• 22 Oct 2021N/a

  EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21661

• 27 Jun 2019Conditional

  EXISTING GARAGE AND DOG SHED

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19304

• 15 Jun 2017Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING SITTING ROOM AT SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17214

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrydolney.

Recorded monuments

• OF023-011002 Armorial plaque
  Description

  No surface trace visible except for a few humps and hollows in the area where the castle (OF023-011001-) was located. An armorial plaque dates the castle to the year 1684 and is incorporated into the wall of Derrydolney house. Probably the site of a 17th-century fortified house. The inscription reads ' This house was erected by Philip Molloy and Mary Molloy his wife in the year of our Lord God 1684, in the three and thirteenth years of the reign of Charles II, by the grace of God, King of England and Scotland, and France and Ireland. Defender of the Faith.' (ITA Survey 1942) 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 Derrydolney.

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

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1804 (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.

No address of the register names Derrydolney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Derrydolney · Doire Dalnaigh

Area

5,781,247 m² (578.12 ha, 1,428.58 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Killooly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killooly electoral division: 271 people in 92 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghaderry, Ballyoran, Ballywilliam, Killooly, Lea Beg

Placenames

Derrydolney 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.