Derreenmeel

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreenmeel, from 50 m² to 814,070 m² (81.41 ha, 201.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Derreenmeel 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.

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  of a dwelling house, shed, ancillary site services and alterations to the approved effluent treatment system (planning permission 19/10 refers) on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 157.00 sqm (house) & 29.00 sqm (garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461331

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  for alterations to existing dwelling house with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260583

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  for agricultural fencing, and for the provision of a new agricultural vehicular access and retention permission is being sought for existing works including temporary use of existing agricultural vehicular access point with all associated works (SPLIT DECISION - REFUSE PERMISSION FOR TEMPORARY USE OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL VEHICULAR ACCESS POINT WITH ALL ASSOCIATE WORKS)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2093

• 21 Jun 2019Refused

  for agricultural fencing and retention permission is being sought for existing access point with ancillary gate, fence and parking area with all associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19938

• 21 Jun 2019Conditional

  for; 1) the change of use of a garage to habitable accommodation, 2) construction of a new single storey extension to front elevation, 3) minor elevation alterations to existing dwelling house, to that previously granted under Pl. Ref. 61953, 4) shed outbuilding, 5) new waste water treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 48.75 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19941

• 4 Jan 2019Conditional

  for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house with alterations to garage/shed and to replace existing septic tank system with a new waste water treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works - extension to house - 34.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1910

• 27 Feb 2018Refused

  permission to construct a detached dwelling house, proprietary treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 216sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18222

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission for store building as constructed and planning permission is being sought for alterations to existing dwelling house, shed, store building, wastewater treatment system and for flood protection works with all associated works and ancillary services. (Gross floor space of work to be retained: 17.6 sqm.)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17354

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derreenmeel.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Derreenmeel, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_315 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Derreenmeel · Doire Míol

Area

1,753,527 m² (175.35 ha, 433.31 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrusheen, Drumminnakill, Gortdrishagh, Newvillage, Tullyvealnaslee

Placenames

Derreenmeel 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.