Ardattin
Ardattin is a townland in the civil parish of Ardoyne, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Ard Aitinn.
- Area
- 79.6 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 2,061 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardattin, from 63 m² to 220,886 m² (22.09 ha, 54.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ardattin 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
24 Apr 2026Conditional
the demolition of the existing shed, associated surrounding structures and steel storage containers, and the construction of a new single-storey retail building to provide fishing gear, supplies and merchandise, including the provision of associated signage, together with all associated site development and ancillary works.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660115
22 Apr 2026Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension to the South & West elevations of existing dwelling, internal alterations, and all associated site works at Rathvarrin, Ardattin, Co. Carlow
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2660112
23 Dec 2022Conditional
rooflight on southern roof elevation, removal of chimney stack and insertion of chimney flue on southern elevation and relocation of entrance
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22450
30 Aug 2022Conditional
the erection of an outdoor sitting area to the fore of an existing pub/restaurant
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22284
9 Aug 2022N/a
the erection of an outdoor sitting area to the fore of an existing pub/restaurant
Retention · Carlow County Council, 22259
4 Mar 2022Conditional
for the demolition of existing standalone shelter / store / water tower structure (floor area to be demolished = 30sqm) and the provision of a single storey extension to side / front consisting of an Entrance Lobby, Classroom, Assisted Shower Room, and SET Room (proposed floor area = 145sqm) of existing single storey School Building (existing floor area = 305sqm), together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2282
12 Jun 2020Conditional
the erection of a two story dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associate site and landscaping works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20185
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 Ardattin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardattin.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-cell Catholic church, dated 1954, with paired round-headed window openings, three-bay gabled projecting open porch, buttresses and chancel. Interior with barrel-vaulted ceiling.
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 Ardattin, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardattin.
- 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
No address of the register names Ardattin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Ardattin · Ard Aitinn
- Area
- 795,762 m² (79.58 ha, 196.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardoyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 599 people lived in 210 households in the Ballintemple electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynoe or Newtown, Craans, Knocknatubbrid, Rathvarrin
- Placenames
- Ardattin 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.