Derrykeel

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrykeel, from 232 m² to 204,057 m² (20.41 ha, 50.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Derrykeel 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  a slatted livestock cubicle shed with underground slurry storage, milking parlour including ancillary areas and all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560240

• 14 Aug 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, FORM ENTRANCE, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18349

• 20 Jun 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, FORM NEW ENTRANCE, INSTALL EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18268

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrykeel Meadows 000897

Recorded monuments

• OF036-039 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. According to local information site was bulldozed a couple of years ago. 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

• OF036-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. According to local information site was bulldozed a couple of years ago. Hachured as circular enclosure on 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

• OF036-052 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 241/240) shows outline of circular enclosure. 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

• OF036-076 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (Air Corps 757) shows outline of possible circular enclosure. 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 Derrykeel.

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 10 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

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

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

Name

Derrykeel · Doire Caol

Area

2,191,831 m² (219.18 ha, 541.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kinnitty, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Tulla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tulla electoral division: 108 people in 36 households; 91% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagurty, Ballyshane, Breaghmore, Clonlee, Derrybeg, Kyle

Placenames

Derrykeel 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.