Derreenamackaun

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreenamackaun, from 720 m² to 206,009 m² (20.6 ha, 50.91 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 Derreenamackaun 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.

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  Permission to open new forestry entrance together with all associated site works at Site 3 of 4 separate forestry entrance applications at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22428

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: Errit Lough SAC 000607
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Errit Lough 000607

Recorded monuments

• RO019-009 Crannog
  Description

  At the NW end of the SE arm (dims. c. 1km NW-SE; c. 200-250m NE-SW) of Errit Lough. Described in 1988 when the water was lower as a submerged cairn (SMR file). An area of reeds (diam. c. 15m) is now visible in the lake. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO019-011 Crannog
  Description

  About 200m from the SE end of the SE arm (dims. c. 1km NW-SE; c. 200-250m NE-SW) of Errit Lough, and c. 70m from the NE shore. Described as a cairn (diam. c. 18m) in 1988 when the water level was lower (SMR file). An area of reeds is now visible in the lake. 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 Derreenamackaun.

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 Derreenamackaun, 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 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 Derreenamackaun.

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

Name

Derreenamackaun · Doirín na mBacán

Area

997,941 m² (99.79 ha, 246.6 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Artagh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

463 people lived in 175 households in the Artagh South electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloondart, Gortaganny, Lecarrow, Tully

Placenames

Derreenamackaun 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.