Derk Beg

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derk Beg, from 1,199 m² to 4,428 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Derk Beg 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.

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional

  (a) to reduce the size of rear extension previously granted planning permission under Planning reference, PL24/60291 (b) increase the wall and roof height of existing dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560366

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to (a) build a single storey extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling house, (b) make elevational changes to front of existing dwelling house (c) demolish existing shed on site (d) upgrade existing vehicular access (e) install a new septic tank and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services at Derk beg, Dromard, Co.Sligo.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460291

• 28 Nov 2019Conditional

  development consisting of (1) demolition of existing front porch & reconstruction of new entrance porch; (2) reconstruction of new roof and raising of new roof height by approximately 1m and carrying out of other minor alteration works to existing cottage internally & externally; (3) construction of a new extension to the eastern elevation of the existing cottage comprising of new kitchen & living area (approximately 32.5m2); (4) demolition of existing outbuildings to the northern elevation and (5) construction of a new septic tank and percolation system on site and carrying out of all ancillary site works deemed necessary for the development works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 14354

• 17 Jan 2019N/a

  Development consisting of: 1. retention of existing dwelling house and attached garage as constructed, 2. retention of existing vehicular entrance and site boundaries as constructed, 3. retention of existing septic tank/percolation system and all site services as constructed

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 199

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Ballysadare Bay SPA 004129

Recorded monuments

• SL013-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight E-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised, roughly circular area (dims. 29m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by an earthen scarp (ext. H 1.6m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The scarped edge, although very uneven, is best preserved SW-NE. From NE-SW the scarped edge has been cut back and straightened. The original entrance is not recognisable Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• Derk House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1880. Gabled single-storey porch to north end of east (front) elevation, pedimented projection to north end of west (rear) elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay pots, concrete verges to gables, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth-rendered walling, painted quoins to gables, painted timber decorative barges to porch. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, uPVC casement windows c. 1995. Segmental-headed entrance opening to north side of porch, hardwood panelled door with sidelights and overlight c. 1980. Corrugated iron-roofed barn to north, set well back from road among mature plant and tree growth overlooking Sligo Bay, cow tail pump to adjacent field, decorative metal entrance gate to yard, dry stone boundary walls, curved painted smooth-rendered walls to entrance from road with segmental limestone copings.

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 Derk Beg, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Derk Beg · An Deirc Bheag

Area

225,577 m² (22.56 ha, 55.74 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Toberpatrick East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

232 people lived in 88 households in the Toberpatrick East electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbrickeen, Derk More

Placenames

Derk Beg 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.