Derryhippoo

154 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derryhippoo, from 36 m² to 119,789 m² (11.98 ha, 29.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 62 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 Derryhippoo 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.

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  Permission for change of house type to that granted under PD/21/3 at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2283

• 4 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21554

• 5 Jan 2021Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all associated ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 213

• 16 Dec 2020N/a

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all associated ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20549

• 11 Dec 2020N/a

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all associated ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20527

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 Derryhippoo.

Recorded monuments

• RO038-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope and it was known as 'Liscarragh' (1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map). Circular overgrown platform (diam. c. 50-55m N-S; c. 46.5m E-W) defined by a rounded fosse (at S: Wth of top 6.8m; Wth of base 2.9m; int. D 0.4m; ext. D 0.3m) and an outer bank (at S: Wth 2.4m; ext. H 0.45m) E-WSW. It is cut by an E-W road at N but does survive N of this feature. The original entrance is not identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO038-042001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.7m E-W; 30.4m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7-4.7m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.2-0.8m) SSE-W-NNW, and a scarp (H 0.35-1.1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the damaged perimeter grows mature deciduous trees. A hut-site (RO038-042002-) (ext. diam. 6m) defined by a low earthen bank which was inside the perimeter at ESE in 1975 (SMR file) is no longer evident. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO038-042002 Hut site
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. A hut-site (ext. diam. 6m) defined by a low earthen bank which was inside the perimeter of rath (RO038-042001-) at ESE in 1975 (SMR file) is no longer evident. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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

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

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 Derryhippoo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Derryhippoo · Doire Thoipiú

Area

2,309,993 m² (231 ha, 570.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbegnet, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Rosmoylan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rosmoylan electoral division: 215 people in 68 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagad, Bracklin, Carrowkeel, Coolroghaun, Cornaveagh, Creemully and Aghagad Beg, Creggs (Co. Galway), Lisduff, Millford (Co. Galway), Oughtagh, Tonamaddy

Placenames

Derryhippoo 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.