Derreens

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derreens, from 618 m² to 284,279 m² (28.43 ha, 70.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Derreens 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.

• 25 Sept 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of (1) training area including grass playing surface, ball stops and associated floodlighting, (2) provision of a walking/running pathway and associated lighting, and (3) all associated site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18387

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: Ox Mountains Bogs SAC 002006
• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ox Mountains Bogs 002006

Recorded monuments

• SL031-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the N-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (36.5m N-S; 36.5m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m). The N portion is raised c. 0.7m to compensate for the hillslope. Traces of an external facing of drystone walling are evident in places; cattle gaps were noted at N and S. The interior slopes gently down to N. Hawthorn bushes grow on the bank. A trackway approaches the rath from NW and skirts the W half of it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL031-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the summit of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (26.8m N-S; 28.5m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2m) W-N and by a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. An external flat-bottomed boggy fosse (Wth 6.5m) is evident SW-NW with a counterscarp bank (Wth 3.6m; ext. H 0.4m) evident WNW-NNW. The entrance (Wth 3m), with a ramp up from the fosse, is at W. The interior slopes slightly down to E. A field boundary skirts the rath SSW-NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derreens.

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 Derreens, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Derreens.

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 Derreens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Derreens · Na Doiríní

Area

3,392,928 m² (339.29 ha, 838.41 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Cloonacool, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Cloonacool, Kilcummin, Leitrim North

Placenames

Derreens 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.