Derry
Derry is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyhuskard, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Doire.
- Area
- 120.9 ha
- 299 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 5,369 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derry, from 208 m² to 126,651 m² (12.67 ha, 31.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derry 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
7 Jul 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alteration made to the elevations of an existing ex
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260887
24 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260503
27 Jan 2026Refused
Installation of a modular residential pod for family use in the rear garden, wi
Outline permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260090
15 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an agricultural shed (straw bedded shed for sheep and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250569
22 Aug 2024Refused
Permission to erect an agricultural shed (straw-bedded shed for sheep and
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241007
26 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and associated site
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230724
3 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for erection of extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210299
18 Dec 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of an existing agricultural building and screen wall
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201576
20 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170326
20 Jul 2016Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF (1) REVISED DOOR AND WINDOW LAYOUT TO GROUND FLOOR REAR ELEVATION O
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160825
27 Jun 2016Refused
ERECTION OF 2 NO. FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSES AND DOMESTIC GARAGES AND ASSOCI
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20120266
13 May 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO REMOVE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURES AND TO ERECT AN AGRICULTUR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160498
13 Apr 2016N/a
RETENTION OF (1) REVISED DOOR AND WINDOW LAYOUT TO GROUND FLOOR REAR ELEVATION O
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160368
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 Derry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derry.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Derry, about 1 in 10 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 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 Derry.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Derry, The Ballagh7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Derry · Doire
- Area
- 1,209,431 m² (120.94 ha, 298.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhuskard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Electoral division
- Ballyhuskard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,705 people lived in 586 households in the Ballyhuskard electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymoty More, Ballymurry, Garrymile, Glennagark, Kilbride, Mondaniel, Oulartwick More, Tiknock
- Placenames
- Derry 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.