Derrymoylin
Townland in the civil parish of Termonbarry, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 200.6 ha
- 496 acres
- Land parcels
- 141
- registered freehold, median 9,187 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
141 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrymoylin, from 754 m² to 123,484 m² (12.35 ha, 30.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derrymoylin 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
23 Aug 2024Conditional
Permission for the development of a recreational shared cycle and walkway located on Bord Na Móna lands within the townlands of Meelick, Derrymoylin, Cuilbeg, Slattagh More, Dooslattagh, Caul and Cloonmore in County Roscommon. The development proposes the following: a) The delivery of a shared cycle and walkway on Bord na Móna lands. This will include the repurposing of 5375m of existing former rail bed, 540m along existing bog headlands/former high fields, and 2085m along pre-existing machine access routes, b) The construction of car and/or bicycle parking facilities at a number of gateway locations along the proposed route and the provision of EV Charging spaces at the Gateway locations. This will include: i) 1 no. Type 02 Gateway, ii) 2 no. Type 03 Gateway, iii) 2 no. Rest Points, c) The Type 02 Gateway (RN-02-05) will include the provision of a gently sloped access route to the shared cycle and walkway, a walker totem and Type 02 modular pavilion feature, d) The Type 03 Gateways (RN-03-03) and (RN-03-01) will include the provision of a walker totem and Type 03 modular pavilion feature, e) The provision of Thematic Experiences which will consist of: i) An Acoustic Mirror feature at former narrow gauge rail line underpass 05-03 at road crossing RN-00-04, ii) An Acoustic Sponge feature at former narrow gauge rail line underpass 05-02 at Gateway RN-03-03, f) Upgrade works to 3 no. agricultural crossings, g) The decommissioning the former narrow gauge rail line level crossing and provision of upgrade works at the local access road crossing RN-00-02, h) The removal of 2 no. existing containers and concrete slabs at the RN-03-03 Gateway, i) The erection of wayfinding and interpretative signage at Gateway locations along the route, j) Fencing and screening will be erected where required for health and safety and biodiversity reasons. This will include 3224m meters of screening, k) The implementation of Nature Based Drainage proposals at the Gateway locations to cater for surface water drainage at car park locations and i) All other ancillary and associated site works and the application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS), at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460400
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 Derrymoylin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrymoylin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrymoylin.
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
- About 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derrymoylin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrymoylin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Derrymoylin
- Area
- 2,006,379 m² (200.64 ha, 495.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Termonbarry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Electoral division
- Roosky, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Roosky electoral division: 818 people in 301 households; 69% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonaufill, Cloonfad, Cloonfower, Cuilbeg, Knockhall, Meelick, Slattagh More
- Placenames
- Derrymoylin 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.