Derrya
Townland in the civil parish of Mayne, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 108935
- Area
- 60,304 m² (6.03 ha, 14.9 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Derrya
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 Protection Area: Lough Derravaragh SPA 004043
- Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derravaragh NHA 000684
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM007-126 Settlement platform
Description
Listed by O'Sullivan (2004, 65-6) as Derrya 1. Situated on NW shoreline of Lough Derravaragh with impressive ringfort (WM007-003---) 220m to the NE, and a crannóg (WM007-004----) 300m to W. The site has excellent views across the lake, while the E shore is also clearly visible down as far as Knockeyon. Described by O'Sullivan (ibid.) as following; 'a small, circular, rock platform (dims. 14m N-S x 13m E-W; H 0.5m ) of stone and earth. It is composed of small stones, with a few medium-sized stones lying around on the surface, particularly at NNE end. It has a level surface (dims. 8m N-S x 5.5m E-W) on top of the platform. It slopes gradually down to the E, S and W. It is slightly more steep to the NE (towards the shore). A lower, level platform (dims. 8m NE-SW x 7m NW-SE) is attached to the main platform at its ESE end. The platform is separated from the shore by a narrow, waterlogged ditch, c. 25cm in depth. A neatly built, zig-zag stone causeway joins the platform with the shore, but it does not run out directly to it. It firstly leads out from the shore in an E-W direction, before turning slightly in an ENE-WSW towards the platform. For the latter part of its length, the causeway runs across the secondary platform described above. The causeway measures 9m in length, 70-80cm in width, by 15 cm in height. There is no duck-hide on the crannog, suggesting that the causeway was not constructed in recent times. A wooden dugout boat (Derrya NMI 1968:225) was found on the lakeshore, 500m to the south-southwest. This is potentially a small early medieval lakeshore occupation platform constructed to provide good views of the early medieval royal settlement complex at Coolure Demesne to the west. Its proximity to the Coolure Demesne ringfort (WM007-003----) and crannóg (WM007-004---) might suggest it is an early medieval low-status site, occupied seasonally at times of public gatherings on the lakeshore, although it may be an earlier, prehistoric lake platform'. (O'Sullivan et. al. 2007, 120-1) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 252.9 ha
- 625 acres
- Land parcels
- 135
- registered freehold, median 8,826 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrya with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- 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.