Derrygorman
Derrygorman is a townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Doire Mhic Gormáin.
Parcel 977570
- Area
- 17,272 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Derrygorman
Planning applications on this parcel
27 May 2026Conditional
The development consists of 1.) the retention of minor site maintenance works including removal of collapsed shed, 2.) permission to renovate & extend existing cottage and 3.) to install an effluent treatment system including all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660415
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_269 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 131.5 ha
- 325 acres
- Land parcels
- 120
- registered freehold, median 3,768 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygorman, from 17 m² to 82,878 m² (8.29 ha, 20.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derrygorman 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Sept 2026N/a
The development will consist of the retention of existing concrete yard area used for storage of machinery in connection with existing machinery hire/sales business and permission for (i) extension of concrete yard area to be used for storage of machinery in connection with existing machinery hire/sales business, (ii) washdown slab including silt trap & interceptor with discharge to public sewer (iii) installation of stormwater drainage systems including pipework, interceptor, attenuation & discharge to adjacent stream, and all associated works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660728
27 May 2026Conditional
The development consists of 1.) the retention of minor site maintenance works including removal of collapsed shed, 2.) permission to renovate & extend existing cottage and 3.) to install an effluent treatment system including all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660415
23 Feb 2026Conditional
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system and percolation area together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2641
7 Nov 2025Conditional
construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25458
17 Aug 2023Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360329
9 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22463
7 Jun 2022Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ON REDUCED REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES, PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE P04/1741
Retention · Mayo County Council, 22452
3 Dec 2021Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE CONSTRUCTED ON REVISED BOUNDARIES TO THAT GRANTED UNDER P06/1436 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 211267
10 Sept 2021N/a
RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ON REVISED BOUNDARIES TO THAT GRANTED UNDER P06/1436 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 211011
25 Apr 2019Conditional
Construct dwelling house, domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19300
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrygorman.
Recorded monuments
- MA088-036 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA088-082 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA088-093 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrygorman.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derrygorman, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_268 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrygorman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Derrygorman · Doire Mhic Gormáin
- Area
- 1,314,790 m² (131.48 ha, 324.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghagower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Westport Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,739 people lived in 619 households in the Westport Rural electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardogommon, Buckwaria, Dooncastle, Drummindoo, Meneen, Sheean, Sheeroe, Tonranny
- Placenames
- Derrygorman 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.