Derrew
Derrew is a townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Díthreabh.
Parcel 1012628
- Area
- 5,048 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 272 m².
- Zoning
- M4 Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
- Townland
- Derrew
Planning applications on this parcel
19 Mar 2024Conditional
Change of house type to that previously granted under planning reference P19/116
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2469
21 Feb 2019Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING GROUND WORKS TO SITE AND CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P09/594 AND P09/5940
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19116
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 80.8 ha
- 200 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 4,698 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Village Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrew, from 765 m² to 118,917 m² (11.89 ha, 29.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Apr 2026Conditional
construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, a waste water treatment and disposal system, together with a new access onto the public road and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2668
21 Jul 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment unit and percolation area with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25293
19 Mar 2024Conditional
Change of house type to that previously granted under planning reference P19/116
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2469
15 Nov 2021Conditional
RETENTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Mayo County Council, 211191
21 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21781
11 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21620
21 Feb 2019Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING GROUND WORKS TO SITE AND CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P09/594 AND P09/5940
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19116
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrew.
Recorded monuments
- MA089-038 Cist
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrew.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derrew, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrew.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derrew · An Díthreabh
- Area
- 808,154 m² (80.82 ha, 199.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Killavally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 518 people lived in 181 households in the Killavally electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonaghmore, Clooncrooeel, Cooley, Derrew Old, Derryadda, Tonaderrew
- Placenames
- Derrew 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.