Derrya

135 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrya, from 203 m² to 95,729 m² (9.57 ha, 23.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Derrya 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Derrya in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Garriskil Bog SAC 000679
• Special Protection Area: Lough Derravaragh SPA 004043
• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derravaragh NHA 000684

Recorded monuments

• WM007-136 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in pasture, 280m WNW of the N shoreline of Lough Derravaragh. Remains consist of a circular shaped area (int. diam. c. 28m; ext. diam. 48m) defined by a scarp, fosse and possible outer bank which are transected at S by a curving driveway of a modern house to S. Outline of monument clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint outline of circular shaped monument visible on OSi orthoimage taken between 2005-12. Possible bivallate ringfort. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Johnny Ryan, Archaeologist, Forestry Inspectorate (Forest Service), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Date of upload: 8 Match 2023

• WM007-137 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in pasture, 390m NW of the N shoreline of Lough Derravaragh. Cropmark of a rectangular-shaped area (int. dims. c. 28m E-W x 34m N-S; ext. dims. 40m N-S x 37m E-W) defined by a ditch transected at S by a field boundary that is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Possible cropmark of a levelled moated site which is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 03/04/2022. See attached Google Earth orthoimage dated 03/04/2022 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Johnny Ryan, Archaeologist, Forestry Inspectorate (Forest Service), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Date of upload: 8 Match 2023

• WM007-138 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Situated in pasture, 280m NW of the N shoreline of Lough Derravaragh. Cropmark of a small circular-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a ditch is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Possible cropmark of a ditch-barrow. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Johnny Ryan, Archaeologist, Forestry Inspectorate (Forest Service), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Date of upload: 8 Match 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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).

No address of the register names Derrya with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Derrya

Area

2,529,417 m² (252.94 ha, 625.03 acres)

Civil parish

Mayne, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Coolure, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinealoe, Clonava, Lispopple, Shrubbywood

Placenames

Derrya on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.