Derryfrench

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryfrench, from 51 m² to 216,775 m² (21.68 ha, 53.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Derryfrench 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.

• 24 Nov 2021Conditional

  for an Open Cycle Gas Turbine power plant (299MW) and associated infrastructure and buildings. The proposed development will include: Demolition of existing administration building, gatehouse, workshop, storage buildings (3no.) and car parking area; Installation of an Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) unit and associated plant (Including air intake, stack (40m high); main, auxiliary and ancillary transformers; fire wall; acoustic wall; electrical rooms; finfan coolers; skids (to include gas skid, distillate fuel skid, compressor cleaning skid, air drier skid, compressed air skid, lube oil skid, CO2 fire fighting skid); propane store; Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS); fire water tank and pump house; hardstanding maintenance area]; Secondary fuel storage area [4 no. bunded distillate fuel storage tanks - each tank c. 20.2m high (incl. hand rail), 10m diameter]; Fuel forwarding building; Extension to existing distillate unloading plant [1 no. new pump house to be installed]; Fuel forwarding gantry; Expanded Above Ground Installation ('AGI') to facilitate connection to existing gas pipeline; A new 220 kV bay and 220kV bus section within the existing electricity substation; New administration building, gatehouse and associated car parking (2 no. spaces), workshop, storage buildings (3 no.) and car park (52 no. spaces); And all associated ancillary development, site works and services including fill, underground pipework and cabling , upgraded wastewater treatment plant, drainage infrastructure, lighting, fencing, internal roadways, vehicle and pedestrian access gates, vehicular ramp, entrance barrier, etc. The application relates to development for the purposes of an activity requiring a license from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Industrial Emissions Directive. It also relates to a Lower Tier COMAH establishment and therefore falls under the requirements of the Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Regulations, 2015. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 212192

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 270 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201972

• 26 Apr 2019Conditional

  to extend workshop and to complete all associated site works. Permission is also sought to erect acoustic fencing along a section of the existing site boundary. The site is located within the confines of a Major Accident Site under the Seveso Directive. Gross floor space of proposed works: 600 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19633

• 26 Feb 2018Conditional

  to extend workshop and complete all associated site works. Permission is also sought to erect acoustic fencing along a section of the existing site boundary. Gross floor space of proposed works 600 sqm. The proposed site is located at Derryfrench, Tynagh, Co. Galway and is within the confines of a Major Accident Site as determined by the Seveso Directive.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18221

• 24 Aug 2017N/a

  to extend workshop and complete all associated site works. Permission is also sought to erect acoustic fencing along a section of the existing site boundary. (gross floor space 650sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171281

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 Derryfrench.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-062 Well
  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.

• GA106-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This is a cross-reference record - see GA116-046001- for all details. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

• GA116-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (42.6m N-S; 33.5m E-W), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank with traces of internal stone-facing survives from N to E, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse is most clearly visible around the W half of the monument. The outer bank survives from S through W to NNE; field-clearance rubble is packed against it from W to N. A gap (Wth 4m) at E may be original. There is a souterrain (GA0116-046001-) in W half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

• GA116-046001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a rath (GA116-046----). This partially collapsed souterrain (L >13) consists to two passages connected by a drop-hole creep. It appears to be T-shaped in plan. The 1st passage (L c. 4m; Wth 0.96m; H 0.99m) runs N-S. Access is gained via a breach near its N end and beyond it, to the N, the passage is filled with rubble. A linear depression (L 9m) indicates that this section to the S of the access point continued further to the S. A blocked-up drop-hole creep in the N end of this passage appears to have accessed a 2nd passage which extended to its E. Surface depressions suggest that it has collapsed. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

• GA116-047 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused gravel pit defined by a shallow hollow. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA116-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in rough pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 38.5m) defined by a scarp best preserved at S. From W through N to E the enclosing element is obscured by scrub. A gap (Wth 2.5m) at SW may be original. Lazy-beds are visible in SE quadrant of the interior. Field walls extend from the monument at E and W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

• GA116-050 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in pastureland. In 1574 this castle was in the possession of 'Jhonick fitz Thoms' (Nolan 1901, 111). It is indicated on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an unroofed rectangular building (c. 12m NW-SE; c. 8m NE-SW). According to local information, traces of some of the walls remained until the early 1970s. However, no visible surface traces now survive. A small area of subsidence (0.87m N-S; 0.8m E-W; D 0.5m) to the W of the castle was investigated in August 1996. Traces of an earthen-cut passage ( L 0.3-4m; Wth 0.5m; D 0.1m) running E-W were revealed. The passage did not appear to extend to the W of the opening, however, the landowner indicated that it had been visible for c. 0.8m to the W but collapsed material subsequently closed it off. It was inconclusive whether the feature was the remains of an earthen-cut souterrain or whether it was a natural feature (Crumlish 1996). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 July 2017

• GA117-031 Quarry
  Description

  This record relates to a small disused gravel pit. It had been covered over with slag material from Tynagh mines when inspected. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 August 2015

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched scolloped thatch roof, with flush scolloped ridge, and with low rendered chimneystacks to ends. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane to ground floor and three-over-three pane to first floor, with exposed sash boxes and some ogee sash horns, and with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door. Road boundary is rendered wall with rendered coping and wrought-iron pedestrian gate set to rendered piers with rounded caps. Rubble limestone outbuildings to rear with pitched corrugated-iron roofs. Two-bay two-storey house attached to north end.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched reslated roof, with rendered chimneystacks, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, and replacement uPVC to ground floor. Square-headed doorway with timber panelled door. Garden to front bounded by rendered wall with rendered copings and wrought-iron pedestrian gate set to rendered piers with rounded caps. Two-storey thatched house attached to south end. Outbuildings to rear with pitched corrugated-iron roofs.

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 Derryfrench, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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 Derryfrench with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Derryfrench · Doire an Fhrinsigh

Area

2,735,763 m² (273.58 ha, 676.02 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Bracklagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

495 people lived in 171 households in the Bracklagh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleynaminna, Bracklagh Grange, Cloonprask, Derrybeg, Garraunnameetagh, Grange Beg, Grange More, Lisheen South, Tynagh

Placenames

Derryfrench 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.