Ardsollus

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardsollus, from 381 m² to 288,948 m² (28.89 ha, 71.4 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardsollus 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.

• 20 May 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460225

• 1 Jul 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted cubicle unit, 3 bay machinery shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20435

• 6 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, detached shed and advanced wastewater treatment system with percolation area together with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18272

• 24 Jul 2017N/a

  to construct dwelling house, detached garage and advanced wastewater treatment system with percolation area together with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17574

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 Ardsollus.

Recorded monuments

• CL042-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL042-145 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL042-192 Enclosure
  Description

  On a N-S limestone ridge overlooking the River Rine 60m to the E. This monument was visited on 3 November 2017 by Frank Coyne (Aegis Archaeology) in connection with an Archaeological Impact Assessment. He describes it as 'a circular area (diam. 18m E-W) defined by a stony bank with an entrance (Wth 2.5m) at S. The bank is less well defined at N. The interior slopes gently to S.' Revised by: Mary Tunney with information supplied by Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology. Date of revision: 7 November 2017

• CL042-193 Enclosure
  Description

  In a triangular field in pasture bordered at W by a roadway and at E by the river Rine. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 29m) defined by a bank. Visible on a Google Earth aerial photograph taken 5 February 2009, accessed 4 March 2015. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 4 March 2015

Architectural heritage

• Glenview, railway station, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former railway station with dormer attic, built 1859, having gabled projecting bays flanking entrance. Now in use as house. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed bay added to left, three-bay single-storey flat-roofed recessed wing added to right and single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to front with lancet door opening, c. 1990. Pitched slate roof with rusticated concrete chimneystack. Dormer windows added to rear. Snecked limestone walls with cut-stone quoins. Painted brick reveals to replacement timber windows. Timber matchboard door. Blind loops to gables. Rubble stone boundary walls and gate piers to site.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ardsollus, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_640 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Ardsollus · Áth Solas

Area

494,562 m² (49.46 ha, 122.21 acres)

Civil parish

Doora, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Doora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,147 people lived in 715 households in the Doora electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhannan South, Ballykilty, Carrowmeer, Castlefergus, Kilkieran

Placenames

Ardsollus 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.