Derrydarragh

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrydarragh, from 56 m² to 98,867 m² (9.89 ha, 24.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Derrydarragh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derrydarragh 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Slawn 001443

Recorded monuments

• LF025-001001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On low-lying ground close to the shore of an inlet of Lough Ree. This spring well is within a circular setting (diam. 1.6m) defined by a mortared stone wall (H 0.45m; Wth 0.52m). The top of the wall has recently been capped with concrete. The entrance is at S where two steps lead down to the water. A holy bush (LF025-001003-) is associated. A mass-rock (LF025-001002-) lies c. 33m to the SSE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF025-001002 Mass-rock
  Description

  Circa 33m to the SSE of a holy well (LF025-001001-). This mass-rock consists of a roughly shaped, squared limestone boulder (max. H 0.65m; 1.15m NE-SW; 0.9m NW-SE). Its SW end is incised with the letters 'BM' (Blessed Mary) in the style of late-18th/early 19th-century gravestone inscriptions. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF025-001003 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Associated with a holy well (LF025-001001-), c. 3m to its SSW. Rags, holy medals, coins, rosary beads and statuettes have been hung on this bush. A mass-rock (LF025-001002-) lies c. 30m to the SSE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

Architectural heritage

• Summersit, house, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, having lean-to porch to the centre of the front elevation (northwest), flat-roofed canted timber framed bay window to southwest elevation, flat-roofed three-bay two-storey addition to west side of rear (southeast) elevation, and single-bay single-storey lean-to extension to east side of rear elevation. Iron water tank over extension to the rear (southeast). Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging corbelled eaves with paired timber brackets, and having pair of stepped cut limestone chimneystacks to the centre of the roof with moulded limestone coping over. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Timber panelled double doors to base of bay window. Decorative render to doorway with panelled Doric pilasters and console brackets flanking half-glazed timber panelled door with shouldered overlight above. Set in extensive mature grounds with walled garden to rear and complex of outbuildings (13402502) to the east, main entrance gate to the east, and the rubble stone boundary wall to the east and the south. Located to the south of Lanesborough and to the west of Ballymahon. House overlooks Lough Ree to the north.

• Summersit, outbuilding, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings associated with Summersit (13402501), built c. 1885, arranged around a courtyard to the east of the main house. Comprises five-bay two-storey coach house to the north side of the courtyard, and a single-storey range to the west having a two-bay single-storey block to the north end and a two-bay two-storey block/former hayloft attached to the south end. Corrugated-metal lean-to addition to the centre of the single-storey block to the west. Pitched natural slate roof to two-storey former coach house having raised cut limestone verges to gable ends and a cut limestone chimneystack to the east gable end. Rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings having timber and metal-framed windows and timber battened doors, and having tooled limestone lintels and sills. Segmental-headed carriage to the centre (south elevation) having cut limestone block-and-start surround, cut limestone voussoirs and double-leaf corrugated-metal doors. Corrugated-metal roof to single-storey range to the west side of courtyard, and with hipped slate roofs to the two-storey block to the south end of range and to the single-storey block to the north end. Rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings having timber windows and battened timber doors. Rubble limestone boundary walls to yard, with dressed limestone stile to east wall. Cut limestone gate piers on square-plan to entrance to northwest corner of courtyard, having moulded capstones and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Pedestrian entrance to north wall with timber battened door and having rounded cut stone lintel over. Stile built into boundary wall to the east side of complex. Walled garden on rectangular-plan to rear (south) having rubble limestone enclosing walls, and wrought-iron pedestrian gate to east wall.

• Summersit, gates/railings/walls, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rubble limestone boundary walls associated with Summersit House (13402501), built c. 1885. Vernacular gateway to the south end of the wall comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate posts having a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Gateway to the north, serving house, comprising a pair of rebuilt rubble limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having reused wrought-iron flat bar gates. Recent stile to wall to north. Holy well (‘Lady Well’ - LF025-001001-), holy bush (LF025-001003-), and mass rock/penal altar (LF025-001003-) located adjacent to north end of north wall. Located to the east of Summersit House, and to the west of Ballymahon.

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 Derrydarragh, about 1 in 5 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 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 Derrydarragh.

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 Derrydarragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Derrydarragh · Doire Darach

Area

984,272 m² (98.43 ha, 243.22 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowrory, Cartoon, Collum, Culnagore, Lismagawley, Lismagawley Bog, Portanure Bog

Placenames

Derrydarragh 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.