Derrygoony

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygoony, from 169 m² to 275,104 m² (27.51 ha, 67.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Derrygoony 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.

• 31 Aug 2018Conditional

  Permission for demolition of existing derelict two-storey dwelling house and out-buildings and replacement with a single storey dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use of existing access lane together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18408

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black And Derrygoony Loughs 001596

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrygoony.

Architectural heritage

• Scoil Náisiúnta Doire Ó gCuanaigh, school, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1861, having flat-roofed porch to north gable, with gabled four-bay single-storey extension of c.1980 at right angles to north end of original block, and flat-roofed single-storey extensions to re-entrant corner to rear (west) elevation. Now in use as community centre. Pitched slate roofs, timber corbelled eaves to earlier block, red brick chimneystacks to later block. Smooth rendered walls with limestone plaques inscribed: "DERRYCOONEY [sic] NATIONAL SCHOOL ERECTED BY/RICHARD ALLEN MINNITT ESQ. J.P. A.D. 1861" and "Scoil Doire Ó gCuanaigh Scoil Náisiúnta". Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, having six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevations of both blocks, and timber casement windows to rear elevation of earlier block. Square-headed door openings, with recent timber door and over-light to porch, and with timber battened door to rear elevation of earlier building. Recent timber windows and doors to flat-roofed extensions. Remains of toilet block to north of site. Double-leaf wrought-iron gate with rubble stone piers to south of site, recent metal pedestrian gate with rendered piers to north-east of site, rubble stone and stone-clad boundary walls with render capping. Set in own grounds at junction of four roads.

• Water pump, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1890. Round-plan banded shaft with fluted domed cap with pointed finial, spout with foliate neck and ram's head bucket hook, and curved cow's tail handle. Maker's mark to shaft. Set in concrete with concrete piers to either side, near road junction.

• Vicar Bridge, bridge, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch rubble limestone bridge, built c.1790, carrying road over Knappagh Water River. Pointed segmental arches with roughly dressed voussoirs, pointed rubble stone cutwaters to both faces. Rubble stone to soffits with cement rendered plinth. Rock-faced rusticated coping stones to rubble stone parapet walls, some replaced with render copings. Abutment walls battered to base to west (upstream) elevation.

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 Derrygoony, about 1 in 20 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

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

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 Derrygoony with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Derrygoony · Doire Dhamhna

Area

1,145,117 m² (114.51 ha, 282.96 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Cormeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

527 people lived in 174 households in the Cormeen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cortober, Corvackan, Drumcanon, Drumcunnion, Knappagh (Co. Cavan), Lackan, Moyduff (Co. Cavan)

Placenames

Derrygoony 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.