Derryvally

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryvally, from 24 m² to 183,544 m² (18.35 ha, 45.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Sept 2025N/a

  planning permission to carry out works to the curtilage & site area of same. Said church is listed within the Record of Protected Structures within the current Monaghan County Development Plan, Ref. No. 41401809 & is also listed within the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) with ‘Regional’ rating & Ref. No. 41401826 The works shall include: a) Demolition of former school building to Northern side of site. b) Creation of new vehicular site entrance from public road to Northern Boundary, which includes the partial removal of boundary wall. c) Creation of vehicular access route from said new entrance, to perimeter hard standing area of church building. d) Conversion & adaption of existing tennis court area to lined-out car parking, with additional disabled parking provided to south of church building. e) Re-grading of perimeter driveway / hard standing area to church building, to include low level perimeter railing, drainage works & tar-and-chip type surfacing. f) Replastering & repair of entrance piers to West of site. All along with other associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560371

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of material change of use from existing single storey environmental education and visitor centre which is currently being used as a temporary HSE Community Outreach Centre under previously granted planning permission 21/182 to a pre-primary school including all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2442

• 16 Apr 2024N/a

  permission for material change of use from existing single storey environmental education and visitor centre which is currently being used as a temporary HSE Community outreach centre under previously granted planning permission 21182 to a pre/primary school including all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2429

• 27 Mar 2024N/a

  permission to carry out works to the curtilage & site area of same. Said church is listed within the Record of Protected Structures within the current Monaghan County Development Plan, Ref. No. 41401809 & is also listed within the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) with ‘Regional’ rating & Ref. No. 41401826. The works shall include: a) Demolition of former school building to Northern side of site. b) Creation of new vehicular site entrance from public road to Northern Boundary, which includes the partial removal of boundary wall. c) Creation of vehicular access route from said new entrance, to perimeter hard standing area of church building. d) Conversion & adaption of existing tennis court area to lined-out car parking, with additional disabled parking provided to south of church building. e) Re-grading of perimeter driveway / hard standing area to church building, to include low level perimeter railing, drainage works & tar-and-chip type surfacing. f) Replastering & repair of entrance piers to West of site. All along with other associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460113

• 12 May 2023N/a

  permission for proposed Change of Use of Existing 1st Floor Meeting Room to accommodate Pre School Classroom and School Classroom and Change of use of Existing 1st Floor Store Room to accommodate Bathroom and all Associated Works at The Farmhouse, Clones Rd, Derryvally, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan for Monaghan Waldorf School

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360069

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  permission for proposed Material Change of Use of Existing 1st Floor Public Meeting Rooms to accommodate a Pre School Classroom and Material Change of Use of existing 1st Floor Public Meeting Room to accommodate a School Classroom and a material Change of use of Existing 1st Floor Store Room to accommodate Bathroom and all Associated Works at The Farmhouse, Clones Rd, Derryvally, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan for Monaghan Waldorf School.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360071

• 4 May 2023N/a

  permission for the proposed change of use of existing 1st floor meeting room to accommodate pre-school classroom and school classroom and change of use of existing 1st floor storeroom to accommodate bathroom and all associated works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360066

• 30 Apr 2023N/a

  permission to construct a replacement two-storey dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and other associated ancillary site works, using existing site entrance/access. The proposal will involve the demolition of existing dwelling.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360059

• 30 Apr 2023Conditional

  permission to construct a replacement two-storey dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and other associated ancillary site works, using existing site entrance/access. The proposal will involve the demolition of existing dwelling.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360060

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission for a temporary change of use, for 5No. years of the Ballybay Wetlands Centre (Planning Ref:03/531) from an environmental education and visitor centre to a HSE Community Outreach Centre.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21182

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 Derryvally.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryvally.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over Dromore River Upper, built c.1830. Elliptical arches with rubble stone voussoirs and rubble stone soffits. Coursed rubble parapet walls with vertical stone copings, and coursed rubble spandrels. V-shaped cutwaters to west elevation, built of coursed rubble stone. Rendered plinth course. Located south of bridge of Dundalk to Enniskillen branch of Ulster Railway at Shantonagh Junction, north of Derryvally Presbyterian churches and school.

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1850, carrying embanked Dundalk to Enniskillen Branch of former Ulster Railway over Dromore River Upper. Elliptical arch, with margined rusticated stone voussoirs and rubble stone soffit. Squared stone parapet walls, with rusticated stone copings. Random rubble spandrels and squared random rubble abutment walls. Squared rubble wing walls following line of Dromore River to south, coped with dressed stone blocks terminating in rusticated and margined piers. Located east of Shantonagh Junction, former railway beam bridge directly to west.

• Derryvally Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding six-bay barn-style Presbyterian church, dated 1800, with recent lean-to extension to north-east long elevation. now in use as community hall. Half-hipped slated roof, sprocketed to gable ends, and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, with date plaque to west elevation. Round-headed window openings with tooled sandstone sills and replacement timber frames. Three-centred doorway to north elevation with double-leaf timber battened door. Interior has blind round-headed blind arch to south gable wall, with pilasters and moulded architrave. Timber battened ceiling. Some timber pews remain. Replacement timber flooring to nave. Two square-headed door openings accessing vestibule at north end. Carved timber staircase from vestibule to meeting room at first floor level. Square-headed door opening accessing recent changing facilities and toilets at east, with recent timber door. Graveyard to north-east.

• Derryvally National School, school, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former Presbyterian elementary school, built 1836, with external concrete steps to rear leading to middle of first floor. Now vacant. Hipped slate roof, with clay ridge tiles, and red brick chimneystacks, and retaining cast-iron rainwater brackets. Roughcast rendered walls, having rendered eaves course. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows with overlights, boarded up to ground floor, having render reveals and sills. Windows to ground floor boarded up. Square-headed door openings throughout, with timber battened doors, that to stairway having overlight. Wrought-iron gate from north boundary wall to road. Located in grounds of Ballybay First Presbyterian Church, adjacent to graveyard to north of church with rear elevation facing road. Former Derryvally Presbyterian Church and graveyard to north-east.

• First Ballybay Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1785–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Free-standing single-cell Presbyterian church, dated 1786, having six-bay west elevation and four-bay east elevation. Half-hipped slate roof with cut limestone eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly dressed limestone walls with dressed quoins, date stone to north over blocked door opening. Date stone to east elevation also. Round-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with intersecting timber tracery, and tooled sills. Two window openings to east elevation converted to doorways. Segmental-headed door opening to south gable end, having cut-stone block-and-start surround with prominent dated keystone, and double-leaf timber battened door, with intersecting timber tracery to fanlight. Smooth rendered walls to interior, having timber panelled dado, carved marble memorial plaques to north, flat plastered ceiling to nave with rolled cornice and plaster medallions to light fixtures. Double-width nineteenth-century timber pews to centre of nave, flanked by aisle and pews to east and west. Open choir box, and plain timber altar table to north end, in front of pulpit. Nineteenth-century carved timber pulpit to centre of north end, approached by steps on either side from east and west, with pointed-arch balustrade and segmental-headed carved timber arched niche to north wall. Two square-headed door openings with double-leaf timber panelled doors, having pointed-arch detailing, accessing vestibule to south end. Timber stairs from east elevation of vestibule to gallery. Carved timber pews to gallery, now in use as nursery. Graveyard to site, with graves mainly to east of church. Square-plan piers to west with double-leaf wrought-iron gate.

• Hillcrest, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house with attic and raised basement, built c.1780, having lean-to single-storey addition to north-west gable end. Now vacant. Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystacks to gable ends, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered coursed rubble limestone walls, with smooth rendered quoins and chamfered plinth course to window level of basement. Square-headed window openings, with moulded bull-nosed window surrounds. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground and first floor of front (north) elevation, having rendered and painted reveals and stone sills throughout. Timber casement windows to basement level of north elevation, and to all of rear elevation. Two six-pane timber windows to attic storey of east and west elevations. Square-headed door opening to centre of north elevation, with moulded render surround having bull-nosed reveals, original timber panelled door with six raised-and-fielded panels, cast-iron door furniture, and overlight. Door opens onto stone platform and flight of eight nosed stone steps over basement area, with stone balusters, handrail and square-plan piers with round finials. Lean-to addition has slated roof. Two single-storey farm outbuildings to south, with pitched slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls. Rendered coursed rubble stone boundary wall to west, with double-leaf wrought-iron gate hanging on square-plan rendered rubble stone gate piers. Located south of Ballybay to Newbliss road, in close proximity to Derryvally House and First Ballybay Presbyterian complex to north-west.

• Derryvally House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic, built c.1800, with single-storey lean-to addition to rear and to west gable, and farm buildings to rear (north). Pitched slate roof, with rendered chimneystacks having decorative string courses to gable ends, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Recent roof-lights to north. Exposed coursed rubble limestone walls, with squared stone quoins. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and start surrounds, segmental-headed relieving arches with rubble stones voussoirs to window and door openings possibly indicating shape of original openings. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to long elevations, with some replacement timber casement windows to rear. Segmental-headed door opening with replacement segmental-headed doorcase of timber-framed fanlight and sidelights flanking raised-and-fielded timber panelled door, approached by replacement stone platform, and three recent stone steps. Range of single and two-storey stable and farm buildings forming courtyard, with pitched slated roofs and coursed rubble limestone walls, segmental-headed openings with gauged-brick surrounds to doors and windows. Main approach from south-west with wrought-iron gates on cut-stone square-plan piers with domed stone caps. Located on hill, north of Ballybay to Newbliss road in close proximity to Derryvally Presbyterian complex to west and Craig’s Castle to south-east.

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1850, carrying Dundalk to Enniskillen Branch of former Ulster Railway over road. Segmental arch with rock-faced rusticated stone voussoirs, and random rubble soffit. Squared rubble stone parapet walls, with rusticated stone copings. Rock-faced rusticated spandrels, and squared rubble abutment walls. Squared rubble wing walls project at right angles from north and south elevations, with dress stone copings and terminating in piers.

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 Derryvally, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2427 (ZIP).

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

Name

Derryvally · Doire Mholach

Area

952,837 m² (95.28 ha, 235.45 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybay, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,593 people lived in 581 households in the Ballybay Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaneese, Balladian, Corfad, Derrynaloobinagh, Drummuck, Edenaneane, Shantonagh

Placenames

Derryvally 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.