Derry Beg

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derry Beg, from 400 m² to 76,652 m² (7.67 ha, 18.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Derry 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derry Beg 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 Arrow SAC 001673
• Special Protection Area: Lough Arrow SPA 004050
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Arrow 001673

Recorded monuments

• SL034-200 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In poor pasture, on the SW-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (25m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.2m) with external stone-facing. A slightly raised level area defined by a scarp occurs outside the bank SSW-NE. A NNE-SSW field boundary crosses the SE edge of the rath and others extend from the rath to W and NE. The interior is level and boggy. The bank is overgrown with briars. 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 upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-204 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, at the base of a slope. A circular area (int. diam. 25m) defined by a broad earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.3m) except on the N arc where it is truncated by an E-W field boundary. Remains of an outer bank (Wth 3.2m; ext. H 0.5m) are evident along the W arc. 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 upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Ballindoon House, gate lodge, 1800–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted gate lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on rendered base having red brick capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Part ivy-covered coursed or snecked rubble stone walls with ivy-covered flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with ivy-covered dressings framing casement windows having lattice glazing bars. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Ballindoon House.

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 Derry Beg, about 1 in 10 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 Derry 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 Derry Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Derry Beg · Doire Bheag

Area

434,434 m² (43.44 ha, 107.35 acres)

Civil parish

Killadoon, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Killadoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 104 households in the Killadoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindoon, Carrickglass, Cartronroe, Derry More, Kingsborough

Placenames

Derry 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.