Derrymore

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymore, from 577 m² to 762,399 m² (76.24 ha, 188.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Derrymore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derrymore in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Derrymore.

Recorded monuments

• GA046-044 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a prominent rise in grassland. Raised oval rath (NE-SW 29m, NW-SE 19.5m) defined by a bank at SW and elsewhere by a scarp up to 4.5m in height. Adjoining the rath, at a lower level at NE, is an overgrown D-shaped annexe (NNE-SSW 15m). This consists of a low platform defined by a scarp. There is a quarry pit and a probable souterrain (GA046-044001-) within its interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA046-044001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a D-shaped annexe adjoining a ringfort (GA046-044----). Just W of the quarry pit in the interior of the annexe is a stone-filled hollow (L 10m, Wth 3m) running N-S. According to local tradition, this marks 'the entrance into the fort'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA046-045001 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland with tracts of bogland to the S. Two hachured features (see also GA046-045002- c. 27m to the NE) marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be pits - probably disused sand pits. As they are of post-AD 1700 date they do not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

• GA046-045002 Quarry
  Description

  In undulating pastureland with tracts of bogland to the S. Two hachured features (see also GA046-045001- c. 27m to the SW) marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be pits - probably disused sand pits. As they are of post-AD 1700 date they do not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Derrymore, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derrymore · Doire Mór

Area

1,498,337 m² (149.83 ha, 370.25 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Killian, the unit of the census

Census 2022

364 people lived in 141 households in the Killian electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonnabricka, Corrabaun, Currafarry, Eskermurry, Islands, Ticooly (O'Kelly)

Placenames

Derrymore 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.