Derry

131 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derry, from 131 m² to 138,494 m² (13.85 ha, 34.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Derry 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.

• 13 Feb 2026N/a

  to construct a single storey detached dwelling, single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto existing private lane, driveway, landscaping, boundaries, waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660066

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a split level, part single storey, part two-storey dwelling house, single storey garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance from public road, entrance walls and piers, together with all ancillary site development works- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560560

• 26 Feb 2025Conditional

  for 1. Site works comprising the Infilling and increase of existing ground levels to provide level working area and will consist of 2. The construction of a single storey workshop for the maintenance of lorries connected with the applicants haulage business in order to provide a secure overnight storage yard for lorry trailers, new entrance from the public road, secure boundary fencing, boundary planting comprising native species hedgerows and trees together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560060

• 13 Mar 2024Refused

  for development of the infilling of lands with soil, subsoil and inert material in order to raise the levels and reclaim the land for agricultural purposes together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460096

• 27 Jun 2023Conditional

  erect bungalow and domestic garage, insert a filter unit and percolation area and open new entrance on to public road

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23249

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  retention of constructed ground floor slab of proposed domestic garage and 2. PERMISSION to complete single storey domestic garage together with all ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21424

• 19 Nov 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of - to erect a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20514

• 17 Dec 2019Conditional

  for development to construct a domestic garage and for permission for amendment to planning reference No. 19/273 granted for single storey dwelling, new entrance to public road, new treatment plant and all ancillary site works. The amendment is to relocate the house on the site by moving it in a westerly direction to a lower level

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19505

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, new entrance to public road, new treatment plant and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19273

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 Derry.

Recorded monuments

• CV028-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Situated on the W shoulder of a drumlin hill. All that survives today are faint traces of a low scarp curving from N-E. Otherwise nothing visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV029-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. 50m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW) enclosed by a much-denuded, low earthen bank and very slight traces of a fosse. Bank has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary from W-NNW and from SE-S-SW. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derry.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Derry, Shercock6 sales

Name

Derry

Area

1,528,888 m² (152.89 ha, 377.8 acres)

Civil parish

Shercock, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Taghart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghart electoral division: 661 people in 212 households; 91% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornalara, Kilcrossduff, Lecks, Taghart North or Closnabraddan, Tullybrick

Placenames

Derry 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.