Derryvilla

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryvilla, from 87 m² to 275,185 m² (27.52 ha, 68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Residential 2 - New Proposed Residential (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Dec 2025N/a

  the raising of Existing Land Levels with Inactive or Inert Soil/Subsoil Class D1 Material Totalling 12080 Cubic Meters of Fill with Using Existing Previously Used Forestry Entrance for Use to Improve The Existing Land for Agricultural Land Use and all associated site works. "A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in relation to the application, and is available for public inspection with the planning application."

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560647

• 4 Dec 2025N/a

  the raising of Existing Land Levels with Inactive or Inert Soil/Subsoil Class D1 Material Totalling 12080 Cubic Meters of Fill with Using Existing Previously Used Forestry Entrance for Use to Improve The Existing Land for Agricultural Land Use and all associated site works. "A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in relation to the application, and is available for public inspection with the planning application." The NIS will also be available for purchase

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560618

• 20 Nov 2025N/a

  the raising of existing Land Levels with Inactive or Inert Soil/Subsoil Class D1 Material Totalling 12080 Cubic Meters of Fill with Using Existing Previously Used Forestry Entrance for Use to Improve The Existing Land for Agricultural Land Use and all associated site works. "A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in relation to the application, and is available for public inspection with the planning application"

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560573

• 5 May 2025N/a

  Raising Existing Land Levels with Inactive or Inert Soil/Subsoil Class D1 Material Totalling 12080 Cubic Meters of Fill with Using Existing Previously Used Forestry Entrance for Use to Improve The Existing Land for Agricultural Land Use and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560156

• 4 Jul 2024N/a

  carry out amendments to a permitted residential development granted under Reg. Ref. 19174. The proposed amendments will consist of A) relocation of on-street parking spaces; B) relocation of refuse collection areas; C) change of house type/design to sites 67-70 (inclusive) and D) amendments to all rear garden/site boundary treatments

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2492

• 7 Dec 2021Conditional

  3 NO. "CONNEX" CONTAINER UNITS TO REPLACE FOOT BRIDGES, 9 NO. PLINTHS FOR ARTWORK / SCULPTURES, 1 NEW STEEL CONTAINER STORAGE UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21755

• 4 Oct 2021N/a

  3 NO. "CONNEX" CONTAINER UNITS TO REPLACE FOOT BRIDGES, 9 NO. PLINTHS FOR ARTWORK / SCULPTURES, 1 NEW STEEL CONTAINER STORAGE UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21611

• 27 Sept 2021N/a

  construct 10 no. detached two storey houses, 8 no. semi-detached two storey houses, 3 no. two storey terrace houses and all associated works. This proposed development will alllow for the completion of housing development granted under planning reference numbers 06/1197 and 18/280

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21672

• 23 Sept 2019Conditional

  retain as constructed boundary treatment / wall adjacent to R419 and all associated site works. Previous planning ref: 06/1197

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19534

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 Derryvilla.

Recorded monuments

• OF034-001 Road - unclassified togher
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted on OS 6-inch map as a linear feature orientated on a NNW/SSE axis. Modern quarry located where site is marked on OS 6-inch map. Recent buria ground found on top of hill at N end of linear feature, possibility that this togher or trackway was a medieval road giving access to the burial ground (OF034-008001-). Described in 1981 as 'The togher is shown on the 6-inch map as running N-S, straddling the main road. The section to the N of the road was visited but the field has been bulldozed and there are no traces of a field or bank as on the S of the road. There are some intermittent slight humps, which may be fragments of the monument but there can be no certainty. To the South of the road the monument can be seen as a low wide bank, best preserved in the 10m closest to the road. It runs for some 18m, before being interrupted by a modern ditch. It then runs on a further 15m, sporadically eroded and denuded and cut into by trees, which have been recently cut down to their stumps. The bank averages 2m wide at its almost flat top and is 4.2m wide on average from base to base of slope. It averages a rise of 0.4-0.5m high from the surrounding field. It runs across peaty, but relatively good land for this area and directly to a building of a farmyard type as shown on 1st ed. map. (ASI file 1981). 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

• OF034-008001 Burial ground
  Description

  In 1997 quarrying operations at Derryvilla unearthed human remains which after examination was revealed to belong to a large unrecorded burial ground. This burial round was situated on top of a hill with good views in all directions. An earthen track known as 'The Friar's Togher' (OF034-001----) is located immediately S of the hill and is orientated on a N-S axis and appears to be connecting this hilltop containing the burial ground with an area to the S of the hill. An arcaheological evaluation of this burial ground was undertaken by Clare Mullins under licence No. 98 E 0315 between 20-31 July 1998. A total of 22 test trenches were opened on the west and northwest side of the hilltop. These trenches revealed that the top soil was approx. 0.3m in depth that overlay a brown humic sand in which the skeletons were deposited. This brown sand occurred up to a max. depth of 1m and overlay an almost pure white sterile sand. Within trench 1 a skeleton was found at a depth of 0.3m below the surface and lay within the brown sand and this articulated burial was orientated E-W with the head to the west. Trench 4 revealed the remains of a burial within the brown sand which seemed to be orientated E-W with the head to the W. Another burial was uncovered in trench 5 at a depth of 0.4m below the surface and was orientated E-W with the head to the W. A fragment of this skull showed evidence of damage from and edged weapon injury. Trench 7 revealed the redeposited remains of more than one individual. In trench 9 a burial was found at a depth of 0.5m below the surface and the remains were orientated from NW-SE with the head to the NW. Trench 14 revealed the remains of an undisturbed skeleton which was orientated on and E-W axis with the head to the W. Within trench 19 a ditch was discovered running NE-SW at a depth of 0.2m below the topsoil and consisted of a continuous layer of of dark brown silty sand which had moderate amounts of charcoal fleck. This in turn overlay the upper fill of the ditch which consisted of a dark brown/black silty sand with occasional angular stones and occasional inclusions of animal bone as well as frequent charcoal flecks. This external ditch measured 2.8m in width and 0.6m deep with possible internal ditch measuring 1.2m wide by 0.4m deep. In trech 16 the remains of this enclosing ditch were found at the NW end of this ditch, a shard of what has tentatively been described as medieval pottery was found at the topsoil/brown sand interface. This ditch feature appears to run from NE-SW across the platform possibly acting as an enclosing element for the burials that can be found on the E side of the ditch and which are totally absent from the W side of the ditch. In total burials, either disturbed or in situ, were found in 11 of these test trenches. Trenches 21 and 22 were located in an area outside of the burial ground. All undisturbed burials, with the exception of that found in Trench 10, were orientated precisely or closely E-W with the head to the W indicating that the burial ground belongs to the Christian era (Mullins 1998, 9). On the basis of the evidence revelaed during the archaeological evaluation of the site it would seem most probable that the remaining part of the burial ground is confined to the E part of the hilltop on the N side of the quarry. The feature revealed in Trench 19 and Trench 16 most likley represents a ditch which delineated the boundary of the burial ground. The National Museum of Ireland recorded that 'In September 1970 human remains were discovered during the bulldozing of a hill at Derryvilla, near Portarlington, Co. Offaly,224 close to the border between counties Laois and Offaly. The NMI was informed of the find by a local man, Mr H. Milner, and the site was investigated on the Museum's behalf by Dr Barry Raftery of University College, Dublin. The hill is described as a prominent eminence, 89m above ,sea level, 1.5km north-east of Portarlington town. The hill appeared to be of glacial origin, as the bulldozer revealed its upper levels, at least, to be entirely composed of sand and gravel. More than half of its surface had been completely stripped to a depth of approximately 1 m. Raftery noted that it was the only area of dry land in a considerable expanse of bog. Substantial amounts of human bone had come to light, all in a good state of preservation, but were scattered over the bulldozed area. According to Mr Milner, they were associated with pockets of red material, apparently sunk into the ubiquitous grey sand, but this could not be verified on site owing to the level of disturbance. Most of the burials appear to have came from the upper, southern slope of the hill and did not appear to have been buried at any great depth below the ground surface. According to Mr Milner there was a strong local tradition of a monastic settlement on the hilltop. A low earthen bank, approximately 2m wide by lm high, was visible on the lower slope of the hill in the south-east. This bank, known locally as `the Friar's Togher; extends for about 250m in a fairly straight line. This is recorded in the SMR for County Offaly as a togher. A second bank, parallel to the first and west of it, is marked on the map but is not evident on the ground. The remains were not acquired, and it was decided not to excavate the site at that time. In 1998 further human remains were exposed during quarrying operations. Trial excavations were carried out by Clare Mullins to the east of the togher (Mullins 2000), and burials were found in eleven of the trenches. Burials occurred at various depths, suggesting that the site was used over an extended period. Mullins interpreted the burials as medieval in date, based on the layout and the ditch feature (this would appear to be the togher mentioned above; Mullins 2000), and suggested that the ditch acted as an enclosure for the burials. Given that burials were also found to the west of the togher, however, it seems likely that the burials extended over the entire plateau' (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 507). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/2000).

• OF034-008002 Enclosure
  Description

  In 1997 quarrying operations at Derryvilla unearthed human remains which after examination was revealed to belong to a large unrecorded burial ground. This burial round was situated on top of a hill with good views in all directions. An earthen track known as 'The Friar's Togher' (OF034-001----) is located immediately S of the hill and is orientated on a N-S axis and appears to be connecting this hilltop containing the burial ground with an area to the S of the hill. An arcaheological evaluation of this burial ground was undertaken by Clare Mullins under licence No. 98 E 0315 between 20-31 July 1998. A total of 22 test trenches were opened on the west and northwest side of the hilltop. Within trench 19 a ditch was discovered running NE-SW at a depth of 0.2m below the topsoil and consisted of a continuous layer of of dark brown silty sand which had moderate amounts of charcoal fleck. This in turn overlay the upper fill of the ditch which consisted of a dark brown/black silty sand with occasional angular stones and occasional inclusions of animal bone as well as frequent charcoal flecks. This external ditch measured 2.8m in width and 0.6m deep with possible internal ditch measuring 1.2m wide by 0.4m deep. In trech 16 the remains of this enclosing ditch were found at the NW end of this ditch, a shard of what has tentatively been described as medieval pottery was found at the topsoil/brown sand interface. This ditch feature appears to run from NE-SW across the platform possibly acting as an enclosing element for the burials that can be found on the E side of the ditch and which are totally absent from the W side of the ditch. In total burials, either disturbed or in situ, were found in 11 of these test trenches. Trenches 21 and 22 were located in an area outside of the burial ground. All undisturbed burials, with the exception of that found in Trench 10, were orientated precisely or closely E-W with the head to the W indicating that the burial ground belongs to the Christian era (Mullins 1998, 9). On the basis of the evidence revelaed during the archaeological evaluation of the site it would seem most probable that the remaining part of the burial ground is confined to the E part of the hilltop on the N side of the quarry. The feature revealed in Trench 19 and Trench 16 most likley represents a ditch which delineated the boundary of the burial ground. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/2000).

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2202 (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 Derryvilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Derryvilla · Doire an Bhile

Area

2,065,647 m² (206.56 ha, 510.43 acres)

Civil parish

Clonyhurk, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Portarlington North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Portarlington North electoral division: 2,591 people in 873 households; 75% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim (Co. Kildare), Cushina, Derryounce, Droughill (Co. Laois), Kilmalogue, Tinacrannagh

Placenames

Derryvilla 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.