Derryarkin

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryarkin, from 142 m² to 1,006,019 m² (100.6 ha, 248.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Derryarkin 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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  1. An overall application area of c. 19.5 hectares; 2. Phased extraction of sand and gravel (wet working) over an area of c. 11.7 hectares with processing that includes crushing and screening and all ancillary works and structures; 3. Provision of new site facilities to include wheelwash (c. 35m²), weighbridge (c. 69m²); mobile welfare pod facility (c. 16m²) consisting of office, canteen, toilet and drying room; dedicated parking area, perimeter vegetation planting and fencing; 4. Access to the site will be via an existing entrance onto the local access road to the north of the site; 5. Progressive restoration of the site to naturally regenerated wildlife habitat and a permanent water body; 6. The proposed development life is for 15 years to complete extraction and restoration operations. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of this planning application

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560511

• 10 Oct 2025N/a

  1. An overall application area of c. 19.5 hectares; 2. Phased extraction of sand and gravel (wet working) over an area of c. 11.7 hectares with processing that includes crushing and screening and all ancillary works and structures; 3. Provision of new site facilities to include wheelwash (c. 35m²), weighbridge (c. 69m²); mobile welfare pod facility (c. 16m²) consisting of office, canteen, toilet and drying room; dedicated parking area, perimeter vegetation planting and fencing; 4. Access to the site will be via an existing entrance onto the local access road to the north of the site; 5. Progressive restoration of the site to naturally regenerated wildlife habitat and a permanent water body; 6. The proposed development life is for 15 years to complete extraction and restoration operations.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560480

• 5 Jul 2023Refused

  ROCK EXTRACTION FROM AN AREA OF LAND CONSISTING OF 3.6 HECTARES TO A LEVEL OF 54.5 METRES ABOVE ORDNANCE DATUM, RESTORATION OF AREA ON COMPLETION OF EXTRACTION AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES/WORKS. ROCK WILL BE EXTRACTED BY MECHANICAL MEANS AND TRANSPORTED TO THE EXISTING MANUFACTURING AREA. THE APPLICANT IS SEEKING A 10-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23322

• 21 Sept 2022Conditional

  THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND STRUCTURES ON-SITE AND THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MATERIALS RECOVERY FACILITY FOR THE ACCEPTANCE AND PROCESSING OF UP TO 90,000 TONNES PER ANNUM OF HOUSEHOLD, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL (C&I), AND CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION (C&D) WASTE. ELEMENTS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING. (1) THE DEMOLITION OF ALL EXISTING SITE AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND STRUCTURES ON-SITE (WHICH COVER AN AREA OF 1,417 M2). (2) THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A MATERIALS RECOVERY FACILITY, COMPRISING: (A) A SITE ENTRANCE, (B) A WEIGHBRIDGE, (C)TRUCKING SET DOWN AND PARKING AREAS, (D) STAFF PARKING, COMPRISING 24 PARKING SPACES INCLUDING DISABLED PARKING AND EV CHARGING, (E) A CONCRETE YARD AREA, (F) A FUEL STORAGE AREA, (G) EXTERNAL WASTE STORAGE BAYS, (H) SKIP / BIN STORAGE AREAS, (I) A PERIMETER BOUNDARY WALL (4 M IN HEIGHT) AND PERIMETER FENCING (2.1 M IN HEIGHT), (J) A STORMWATER DRAINAGE AND ATTENUATION SYSTEM, (K) AN ADMINISTRATION TWO-STOREY BUILDING (WITH AN OVERALL FLOOR AREA OF C. 396M2 AND C.7.35M IN HEIGHT), (L) A SINGLE STOREY MATERIALS RECOVERY FACILITY (WITH AN OVERALL FLOOR AREA OF C. 2,850M2 TO A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF C.13M), (M) A TRUCK LOADING BAY, (N) AN ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA AND ANCILLARY SERVICES, (O) AN ON-SITE ESB SUB-STATION AND ADJOINING ELECTRICAL ROOM (WITH A COMBINED FLOOR AREA OF 61 M2 AND 2.175 M IN HEIGHT), (P) SOLAR PANELS (COVERING A TOTAL AREA OF 737 M2) MOUNTED ATOP THE PROPOSED ADMINISTRATION AND MATERIALS RECOVERY FACILITY BUILDINGS. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS). THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL ACCEPT UP TO 50,000 TONNES OF WASTE PER ANNUM AND OPERATE UNDER A WASTE FACILITY PERMIT FROM OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL DURING PHASE 1 OF OPERATIONS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL ACCEPT UP TO 90,000 TONNES OF WASTE PER ANNUM AND OPERATE UNDER AN INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS LICENCE FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY DURING PHASE 2 OF OPERATIONS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22490

• 27 Apr 2021Conditional

  A 23 YEAR PERMISSION FOR A 44.0 HECTARE EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AUTHORISED SAND AND GRAVEL PIT COMPRISING OF THE FOLLOWING: AN EXTRACTION AREA OF 43.8 HA.; REMOVAL OF 10.2 HA. OF COMMERCIAL FORESTRY AND REMOVAL OF OVERBURDEN MATERIAL FROM THE REMAINING 33.6 HECTARES OF THE PROPOSED EXTRACTION AREA; EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL BY MECHANICAL MEANS; UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING INTERNAL HAUL ROAD MEASURING 0.2 HA.; TRANSPORTATION OF EXTRACTED MATERIAL TO THE EXISTING AUTHORISED MANUFACTURING AREA FOR PROCESSING VIA THE INTERNAL HAUL ROAD; LANDSCAPING AND RESTORATION OF THE SITE INCLUDING SCREENING BERMS; ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES/WORKS. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21247

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  AND CONTINUATION OF USE OF AN INTERNAL HAUL ROAD WHICH MEASURES 1,116 METERS IN LENGTH AND CONNECTS TWO AREAS OF AN EXISTING AUTHORISED SAND AND GRAVEL PIT. PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AN AREA OF 1.4 HECTARES

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2171

• 20 Nov 2020N/a

  A 44.0 HECTARE EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AUTHORISED SAND AND GRAVEL PIT COMPRISING OF THE FOLLOWING: AN EXTRACTION AREA OF 43.8 HA. AND AN INTERNAL HAUL ROAD OF 0.2 HA.; REMOVAL OF 10.2 HA. OF COMMERCIAL FORESTRY AND REMOVAL OF OVERBURDEN MATERIAL FROM THE REMAINING 33.6 HECTARES OF THE PROPOSED EXTRACTION AREA; EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL BY MECHANICAL MEANS; TRANSPORTATION OF EXTRACTED MATERIAL TO THE EXISTING AUTHORISED MANUFACTURING AREA FOR PROCESSING VIA THE PROPOSED INTERNAL HAUL ROAD (0.2 HA.); LANDSCAPING AND RESTORATION OF THE SITE INCLUDING SCREENING BERMS; ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES/WORKS; THE APPLICANT IS SEEKING A 23 YEAR PERMISSION AS PART OF THE PLANNING APPLICATION; THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20573

• 17 Sept 2019N/a

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE EXTRACTION OF MATERIAL FROM MY LAND BY REMOVAL OF MOUNDS / HILLS FOR IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES; THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TEMPORARY HAUL ROAD WHERE SURPLUS MATERIAL (GENERAL FILL MATERIAL/BOULDER CLAY) WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO SUPPLY THE YELLOW RIVER WIND FARM TURBINE PROJECT, AN BORD PLEANALA REF. NO. PL19.PA0032 AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES. THE DURATION OF THE WORKS IS FOUR YEARS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19455

• 30 Jul 2019N/a

  THE LOWERING AND LEVELLING OF GROUND ON LAND FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES BY REMOVAL OF MOUNDS / HILLS; THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TEMPORARY HAUL ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES. THE DURATION OF THE WORKS IS FOUR YEARS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19385

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  THE FILLING OF LANDS WITH INERT WASTE CONSISTING OF CONCRETE, BRICKS, TILES AND CERAMICS, SOIL AND STONES FOR THE PURPOSE OF LAND RECLAMATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18324

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A TOTAL AREA OF 30.2 HECTARES COMPRISING OF THE FOLLOWING: (A) EXTRACTION OF SAND AND GRAVEL FROM A GREENFIELD AREA (AREA 1 = 26.0 HECTARES) BY MECHANICAL MEANS AND TRANSPORTATION TO THE MANUFACTURING AREA (AREA 2) FOR PROCESSING AND ALL ASSOCIATED FACILTIES/WORKS. (B) CONTINUATION OF USE OF THE EXISTING AUTHORISED MANUFACTURING AREA (AREA 2 = 4.2 HECTARES) AND EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE CONSISTING OF CRUSHING AND SCREENING PLANT; OFFICES; WEIGHBRIDGE; STOCKPILING AREAS; ENTRANCE; HAUL ROADS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES/WORKS. (C) LANDSCAPING AND RESTORATION OF THE SITE INCLUDING SCREENING BERMS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS. (D) THE APPLICANT IS SEEKING A 25 YEAR PERMISSION AS PART OF THE PLANNING APPLICATION. (E) THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1849

• 11 Jul 2017Conditional

  (A) 1 NO. NEW TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT (D) NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17251

• 11 Jan 2017Conditional

  SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION FROM TWO AREAS OF LAND CONSISTING OF 30.9 HECTARES (AREA A1 CONSISTING OF 19.3 HECTARES AND AREA A2 CONSISTING OF 11.6 HECTARES), CONSTRUCTION OF LANDSCAPING BERMS, RESTORATION OF AREAS ON COMPLETION OF EXTRACTION AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES/WORKS. SAND AND GRAVEL WILL BE EXTRACTED BY MECHANICAL MEANS AND TRANSPORTED TO THE EXISTING SAND AND GRAVEL PIT FOR PROCESSING. THE APPLICANT IS SEEKING A 5 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (E.I.S.)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 178

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 Derryarkin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derryarkin.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Derryarkin.

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.

No address of the register names Derryarkin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Derryarkin · Doire Aircean

Area

4,192,923 m² (419.29 ha, 1,036.09 acres)

Civil parish

Croghan, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Lower

Electoral division

Croghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Croghan electoral division: 570 people in 182 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballyfore, Bunsallagh, Derrygreenagh, Derryiron, Farthingstown (Co. Westmeath), Kiltotan and Collinstown (Co. Westmeath), Rahincuill (Co. Westmeath)

Placenames

Derryarkin 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.