Dernaskeagh

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dernaskeagh, from 35 m² to 322,030 m² (32.2 ha, 79.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Dernaskeagh 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.

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  development consisting of the following: (a) construct a single storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house, (b) demolish rear section of existing dwelling house (c) decommission existing waste treatment system on site and install a new wastewater treatment system consisting of an effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services on site

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360304

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 Dernaskeagh.

Recorded monuments

• SL040-153 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Bóthar an Corann or Bothar na Slieve connected the town of Ballymote, Co. Sligo with Boyle, Co. Roscommon by a route around the SW side of Kesh Corran and to the W of the Bricklieve Mountains, a distance of c. 20km. According to Timoney and Timoney (2001, 21), Richard de Burgh, the Red Earl of Ulster, is credited with building this road to get from his castle at Ballymote (SL033-092----) into Roscommon. This entry deals only with that part of the road in Co. Sligo, i.e. from close to Ballymote as far as the Roscommon border. The road traverses a number of townlands over a number of the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch sheets: OS 33: Ardsallagh/ Corhober/Mullaghcor; OS 39: Ardsallagh/Knocknacroy/Cross/Cloonagh/ Knocknawhishoge; OS 40:Carrowreagh/Dernaskeagh; OS 45: Meenmore/ Derrygolagh/Dernaskeagh. A possible link road between Bothar an Corann and Bothar an Iarla Ruaid (SL033-147---) goes from Greenan townland, around the S side of the Bricklieve Mountains, to Ballinafad. Sections of Bóthar an Corann are recorded as five separate records (SL033-145---; SL039-031----; SL040-143----; SL040-153----; SL045-002----) commencing at Ballymote and following the route SE to the county boundary with Roscommon. Only sections of the road are indicated on these maps though it was, of course, continuous. This section (SL040-153----) traverses the townlands of Dernaskeagh and Derrygolagh. The portion in Dernaskeagh zig-zags gently for a distance of c. 0.5km in a NW direction through poorly drained pasture, then swings to WNW for a further 0.4km cutting across the lower SSW-facing slope of the hill. It is evident for most of this section as a very shallow linear depression (Wth c. 4.5m). A short section has been incorporated into a farm trackway and is bounded by post-and-wire fencing. Close to the point where the trackway changes direction to WNW it becomes difficult to trace and a short section appears to coincide with the line of a modern road. Continuing to WNW it cuts into the slope of the hill where it takes the form of a sunken way (Wth 4m) bordered on the N side by a vertical S-facing scarp (H 0.9m), roughly revetted in places with stone, cut into the rising slope of the hill, and on the S side by a substantial earth and stone field boundary. A shallow drain (Wth 0.9m) is cut into the base of the trackway along the inner face of the field boundary. The section is covered with overgrowth of hazel, holly, bushes and brambles. A single test-trench dug at the S end of this section in 2001 (at ITM grid reference 573245, 807214) revealed a trackway (Wth c. 2.5m) consisting of 'woven timbers, 20mm to 40mm wide laid on east/west and north/south axes, with the runners orientated north/south' c. 0.45m below the present surface (Read 2001a). The trackway appeared to lie in a natural hollow or possible cut and the eastern and western edges seemed to be defined by medium sized stones (ibid.). A deposit of burnt material was also revealed on one side of the trackway (Read 2003, 358). To the S of this the road extends on a roughly NNW-SSE axis for a furtherv c. 1km, crossing the townland boundary into Derrygolagh. It is poorly preserved and does not survive as a continuous track. It is mostly evident as a shallow, linear, waterlogged depresssion (Wth c. 4m; D 0.3-0.5m) bordered by traces of parallel banks or, where cut into rising ground, by low scarps. In places it is very difficult to trace, being evident only as a slight surface indentation , or makred by a dense growth of rushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of revision: 1 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Dernaskeagh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Dernaskeagh.

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 Dernaskeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Dernaskeagh · Doire na Sceach

Area

2,811,022 m² (281.1 ha, 694.62 acres)

Civil parish

Toomour, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Toomour, the unit of the census

Census 2022

227 people lived in 95 households in the Toomour electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowcrory, Carrowreagh, Corradoo, Derrygolagh, Toomour

Placenames

Dernaskeagh 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.