Derrynacross
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman, barony of Costello, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 30.8 ha
- 76 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 14,981 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrynacross, from 273 m² to 47,184 m² (4.72 ha, 11.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O1Un-zoned (Strategic reserve, White land)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Strategic Industrial / Enterprise Zones (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M5Outer Core (Other mix of uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jul 2026Conditional
Permission for development which will consist of the following: the installation of a single-storey modular building containing a biomass boiler system including flue and biomass silo to serve the existing school premises; the removal of the existing oil storage tanks and existing internal boilers; the upgrade of the existing plant rooms; the removal of the existing LPG compound and its associated LPG storage tanks and the construction of a new LPG compound incorporating three LPG storage tanks of increased capacity, together with all associated pipework and ancillary infrastructure; amendments to the existing entrance onto the public road, including the removal of the existing gates, fencing and kerbing; the construction of a new set-back entrance with replacement gates and kerbing; together with all ancillary and associated site development works (This application relates to the following protected structure listed in the Record of Protected Structures for County Roscommon, RPS No. 00800211 St. Nathy's College) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660366
28 Oct 2022Conditional
Retention Permission for: (1) 9 no. steel storage buildings, as constructed, together with all ancillary site works and services; (2) Existing band saw workshop, as constructed, and all ancillary site works and services at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22585
24 Oct 2022N/a
Retention Permission for:1. 9 No steel storage buildings, as constructed, together with all ancillary site works and services; 2. Existing band saw workshop, as constructed, and all ancillary site works and services at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22572
15 Mar 2019Conditional
for the demolition of existing dwelling house and construction of a new replacement dwelling house and attached domestic garage, together with connection to services and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19127
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 Derrynacross.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrynacross.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrynacross.
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 Derrynacross.
- 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 Derrynacross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Derrynacross
- Area
- 308,047 m² (30.8 ha, 76.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballaghaderreen electoral division: 3,254 people in 1,218 households; 58% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghaderreen, Ballyoughter
- Placenames
- Derrynacross 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.