Derk More

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derk More, from 14 m² to 38,603 m² (3.86 ha, 9.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Derk More 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.

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to (a) build a single storey extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling house, (b) make elevational changes to front of existing dwelling house (c) demolish existing shed on site (d) upgrade existing vehicular access (e) install a new septic tank and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services at Derk beg, Dromard, Co.Sligo.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460291

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, construction of a domestic garage, installation of an effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22172

• 28 Nov 2019Conditional

  development consisting of (1) demolition of existing front porch & reconstruction of new entrance porch; (2) reconstruction of new roof and raising of new roof height by approximately 1m and carrying out of other minor alteration works to existing cottage internally & externally; (3) construction of a new extension to the eastern elevation of the existing cottage comprising of new kitchen & living area (approximately 32.5m2); (4) demolition of existing outbuildings to the northern elevation and (5) construction of a new septic tank and percolation system on site and carrying out of all ancillary site works deemed necessary for the development works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 14354

• 17 Jan 2019N/a

  Development consisting of: 1. retention of existing dwelling house and attached garage as constructed, 2. retention of existing vehicular entrance and site boundaries as constructed, 3. retention of existing septic tank/percolation system and all site services as constructed

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 199

• 10 Apr 2017Conditional

  development consisting of: (1) demolition of existing derelict dwelling house/sheds (2) construction of replacement dwelling house (3) construction of domestic garage (4) installation of septic tank system and percolation area (5) upgrading and extension of existing access road (6) carrying out of all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17134

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 Derk More.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derk More.

Architectural heritage

• The Old Coastguard Station, coastguard station, 1845–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey former coastguard station, built c. 1875, now in use as private dwelling. Oblong main block facing east, square tower at north end, two-bay projection on east side of main block at south end. Hipped and pitched slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, profiled aluminium gutters on painted timber fascias. Pyramidal slate roof to tower, lead capped wood-cored hip rolls, weather vane, cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walling, tooled ashlar quoins, tooled ashlar strings, chamfered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings, smooth render or ashlar surrounds, stone sills, triangular stone sills to tower carried on stepped corbels, painted timber casement windows c. 2000. Pointed-arch door openings, hardwood sheeted doors. Situated at the end of road, painted entrance pillars to south with ball and bird finials, modern metal scroll worked gates c. 1970, winding avenue to house, lined with dry stone walls, mature planting on approach to house, stone boat house to east boundary, double garage to south-west of house c. 1995.

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 Derk More, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Derk More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Derk More · An Deirc Mhór

Area

296,277 m² (29.63 ha, 73.21 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Toberpatrick East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

232 people lived in 88 households in the Toberpatrick East electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbrickeen, Derk Beg, Falfin, Skibbolecorragh

Placenames

Derk More 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.