Derrineel

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrineel, from 25 m² to 219,710 m² (21.97 ha, 54.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Derrineel 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.

• 16 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission to carry out river restoration works including sowing native trees, dig holding pools, installation of livestock drinkers and insertion of gravel to improve spawning/riparian habitat for salmonids on the Hind River. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared as part of the application at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660418

• 23 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission to carry out river restoration works including sowing native trees, dig holding pools, installation of livestock drinkers and insertion of gravel to improve spawning / riparian habitat for salmonids at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660305

• 14 May 2026N/a

  Permission to carry out river restoration works including sowing native trees, dig holding pools, installation of livestock drinkers and insertion of gravel to improve spawning / riparian habitat for salmonids at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660225

• 17 Jun 2020Conditional

  for (i) construction of proposed domestic garage to incorporate snooker/games room, (ii) development of proposed new vehicular entrance, plus all ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20216

• 11 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction of single storey extension to side and rear, renovation of existing dwelling house to include alteration of existing front elevation and all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19581

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 Derrineel.

Recorded monuments

• RO041-025 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular area (diam. c. 80m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.7m) and flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.8m) N-E-SW. A NNE-SSW field bank overlies the interior W of the centre and the monument has been reclaimed W of this where the perimeter is visible as a low grass-covered bank (at N: Wth 8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m) or fosse (at SW: Wth 8m; D 0.1-0.2m). The E part of the monument has been planted with coniferous trees. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-102 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A castle is marked at Dererelle on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone (435)), and it is situated on a level landscape c. 50m from the E bank of the S-N Hind River near its source. It is locally called Neal's castle or Neill's castle. The N wall (int. L 6.35m; T 1.4m; max. H 3m) an adjacent portion of the E (int. L 2m) wall, and the adjacent part of the base of the W (int. L 1.4m; T 1.1m) survive with no diagnostic features. 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 Derrineel.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1371 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Derrineel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Derrineel

Area

862,031 m² (86.2 ha, 213.01 acres)

Civil parish

Athleague, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Athleague East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athleague East electoral division: 510 people in 184 households; 87% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygalda or Trust, Knockadangan, Scardaun, Tromaun

Placenames

Derrineel 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.