Derrycoosh
Townland in the civil parish of Islandeady, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Doire Chuais
Parcel 4689173
- Area
- 6,540 m² (0.65 ha, 1.62 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it, 287 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Derrycoosh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_313 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 207.8 ha
- 513 acres
- Land parcels
- 165
- registered freehold, median 3,427 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 31
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
165 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycoosh, from 27 m² to 363,194 m² (36.32 ha, 89.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derrycoosh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jul 2025Conditional
construct dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25284
11 Jul 2025Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560461
30 Jun 2025N/a
The construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560431
24 Jun 2025Conditional
Retention Permission of demolition and reconstruction of Dwelling House and minor alterations at Derrycoosh, Castlebar, Co Mayo
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560415
26 May 2025N/a
Retention Permission of demolition and reconstruction of Dwelling House and minor alterations at Derrycoosh, Castlebar, Co Mayo
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560318
2 Apr 2025Conditional
The development will consist of: 1. The demolition of existing derelict cottages. 2. The construction of a new dwelling house. 3. The construction of a detached, self-contained independent living unit to the rear of the proposed dwelling. 4. The installation of a new Tricel Novo wastewater treatment system and raised Tricel Tero tertiary treatment system on a gravel distribution layer. 5. All associated site development and ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560191
1 Nov 2024Conditional
THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE RE-CONTOURING OF AGRICULTURAL LAND USING IMPORTED BYPRODUCT SOIL AND STONES WITHIN AN AREA OF 5.061 HECTARES FOR THE CONSEQUENTIAL BENEFIT TO AGRICULTURE. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR THE MODIFICATION OF THE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SITE ACCESS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIRED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING ERECTION OF SILT FENCES AT ALL WATERCOURSES. A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION IS REQUESTED DURING WHICH PERIOD APPROXIMATELY 165,000 TONNES OF BYPRODUCT SOIL AND STONES WILL BE IMPORTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF LAND RECLAMATION. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460669
2 Sept 2024Conditional
retain partially constructed site road, and full planning permission to construct a new dwelling house, domestic shed, p.e.t.u. and associated site development works (previously granted under P19/418) and connections to existing services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24364
24 Apr 2024Conditional
renovate existing dwelling, convert existing storage space on lower ground floor into residential to increase floor area, increase internal garage space with associated site works and connections to existing services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24125
25 Oct 2023Conditional
Part demolition of the existing house, renovation and construction of an extension to the front and side of the existing dwelling house along with alterations and modifications to the existing dwelling with all necessary site works and ancillaries
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23585
29 Sept 2023Conditional
Planning permission to construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, and installation of septic tank/waste water treatment system and associated siteworks and services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360405
3 Jul 2023Conditional
Planning Permission to (1) retain works already carried out on site, (2) to renovate and extend existing cottage, (3) for the change use of existing shed from agricultural building to living accommodation to be renovated as a granny flat/ annex building with upgrade to septic tank and percolation bed together with all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360257
28 Apr 2023Conditional
construction of an extension to the front of the existing dwelling house with first floor windows and modifications and alterations to elevations and the provision of first floor accommodation
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23238
14 Apr 2023N/a
renovate and extend existing cottage, renovate existing shed as granny flat together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23209
15 Mar 2023Conditional
renovate existing cottage and construct new extension and garage with all necessary site works and ancillaries
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23135
19 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22818
26 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22316
3 Aug 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21827
29 Jul 2021Conditional
PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE TO UTILISE EXISTING ACCESS ALONG WITH INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21820
6 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SINGLE-STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SITE ACCESS, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND THE PROVISION OF ANCILLARY SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21721
4 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21181
7 Dec 2020Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER P19/607 TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20947
5 Oct 2020Refused
Permission to construct a new single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage/store and on-site wastewater treatment system and site access, together with all associated and ancillary site development works and the provision of ancillary services.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20740
22 Jun 2020Conditional
THE RETENTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SHED AND VEHICULAR AND SERVICE ENTRANCES, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 20396
12 Nov 2019Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, P79/428 REFERS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 19909
The 25 most recent of 31 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrycoosh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrycoosh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrycoosh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Derrycoosh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrycoosh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derrycoosh · Doire Chuais
- Area
- 2,077,576 m² (207.76 ha, 513.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Islandeady, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Islandeady, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Islandeady electoral division: 1,079 people in 382 households; 92% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carha, Cornanool, Drumadoon, Graffa More, Raheens
- Placenames
- Derrycoosh 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.