Derrybeg

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrybeg, from 107 m² to 300,816 m² (30.08 ha, 74.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Derrybeg 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.

• 7 Jul 2026N/a

  for the construction of a dormer extension to the rear of the existing house, a domestic garage, an auxiliary storage shed and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660356

• 13 Jan 2026N/a

  the planting of native hedge planting to screen Eastern Site boundary, the installation of a temporary prefab and timber screen with club name and emblem, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated ancillary services & siteworks. The development will also consist of the retention permission for 3 no. soccer pitches on the site, including 1 no. soccer pitch (Pitch 2) and 2 no. mini soccer pitches (Pitches 3 and 4)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660011

• 9 Dec 2025N/a

  the planting of native hedge planting to screen Eastern Site boundary, the installation of a temporary prefab and timber screen with club name and emblem, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated ancillary services & siteworks. The development will also consist of the retention of 3 no. soccer pitches on the site, including 1 no. soccer pitch (Pitch 2) and 2 no. mini soccer pitches (Pitches 3 and 4)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560626

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  (A) RE-ORIENTATION OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLAYING PITCH, (B) RELOCATION OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED TEMPORARY DRESSING ROOMS, (C) RELOCATION OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED CAR PARK AREA, (D) RE-ROUTING OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED SURROUNDING PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY, ALL OF WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED ON FOOT OF PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. 16/266. RETENTION OF 36M2 MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF 27 NUMBER 4.0M HIGH LIGHTING POSTS AROUND PERIMETER OF WALKING TRACK

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23285

• 6 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SITE ENTRANCE, INSTALL PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22461

• 17 Aug 2022N/a

  THE ERECTION OF 27 NO. LIGHTING POSTS AROUND PERIMETER OF EXISTING WALKING TRACK AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SERVICES & SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22419

• 13 Sept 2017Conditional

  TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFULENT TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17344

• 24 Jul 2017N/a

  TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17269

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 Derrybeg.

Recorded monuments

• OF025-001 Mound
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Not marked on first two editions of the OS 6-inch map but marked as small circular mound on 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. According to Davies (ITA Survey 1942) no surface trace visible, site marked by three old thorns. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan and having projecting entrance bay with concrete walls and hipped thatched roof. Hipped oaten straw roof with decorative knotting and exposed scolloping to ridge and having low rendered chimneystack. Rendered clay walls. Small openings with steel pivoted windows. Replacement uPVC door. Yard to front of house with hedge to road boundary. Low outbuilding to yard has pitched corrugated-iron roof and timber walls.

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Pitched oaten straw roof with decorative knotting and exposed scolloping to ridge. Low rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Small openings with steel pivoted windows and no rear windows. Timber battened door and half-door. Sited at right angles to road with yard to front and outbuildings with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and rendered walls to side.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Derrybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Derrybeg · Doire Beag

Area

1,721,926 m² (172.19 ha, 425.5 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Killeigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeigh electoral division: 1,321 people in 441 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncon, Clonminch, Derryclure, Derrygolan, Hawkswood, Killeigh

Placenames

Derrybeg 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.