Ardra

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardra, from 88 m² to 163,213 m² (16.32 ha, 40.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardra 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 Ardra 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardra.

Recorded monuments

• CV024-005 Crannog
  Description

  An almost circular island (diam. c. 15m) in Ardra Lough, c. 100m from the shoreline. According to Davies (ITA Survey 1942) it is flat-topped with a kerb of stones and rises 1.4m above the water-level. There were formerly piles around the edge and the discovery of some charcoal is also recorded. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV024-006 Crannog
  Description

  Davies (ITA Survey 1942) recorded an approximately circular island (diam. c. 2.1m) rising 0.4m above the water-level of the lake. On the landward side he identified a horizontal beam, at least one pile and a layer of charcoal. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV024-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 42.2m) enclosed by two earthen banks with wide, deep, waterlogged intermediate fosse. Outer bank identifiable only from SSW-SW. Fosse has been infilled from SW-W. Break in inner bank with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV024-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 31.5m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse accompanied by a low counterscarp bank at its outer lip. Fosse identifiable only from NW-N-NE. Internal area has been planted with deciduous trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ardra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Ardra

Area

1,033,569 m² (103.36 ha, 255.4 acres)

Civil parish

Killashandra, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Springfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Springfield electoral division: 173 people in 72 households; 96% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corran, Corranea Glebe, Drumcrow South, Drumkeeran Black, Drumkilroosk, Drumroe, Drumyouth

Placenames

Ardra 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.