Derrycahill
Derrycahill is a townland in the civil parish of Dysart, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 202.1 ha
- 499 acres
- Land parcels
- 109
- registered freehold, median 8,684 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycahill, from 27 m² to 112,594 m² (11.26 ha, 27.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Derrycahill 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
4 Dec 2024N/a
Permission for retention & completion of alterations to dwelling house to include external insulation, new windows & doors, removal of chimneys and all associated site works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460566
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
- Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
- Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222
Recorded monuments
- RO050-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a broad hill c. 600-700m from the river Suck. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 53.5m NNE-SSW; 50m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank and hedge, best preserved at S (Wth 7m; int. H 1.45m; ext. H 2.7m) but reduced to a scarp NNW-E-SSE. An outer fosse (Wth of top 7.4m; Wth of base 2.6m; D 0.45m) is visible SE-SW, and the entrance (Wth 2.3m) is at SSE. 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 Derrycahill.
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 Derrycahill, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Derrycahill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Derrycahill
- Area
- 2,021,318 m² (202.13 ha, 499.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysart, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Dysart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 229 people lived in 96 households in the Dysart electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derryfadda (Co. Galway), Feevagh, Feevagh Beg, Feevagh More, Porteen and Ballyrevagh West, Srahloughra (Co. Galway)
- Placenames
- Derrycahill 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.