Ardacrow
Ardacrow is a townland in the civil parish of Rathclarin, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Ard an Chró.
- Area
- 210.9 ha
- 521 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 10,579 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 58
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardacrow, from 318 m² to 293,385 m² (29.34 ha, 72.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ardacrow 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
25 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for extension and alterations to dwelling house to front, side and rear and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6228
18 Aug 2022Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house & garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5906
29 Jun 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5529
21 May 2021Refused
To construct dwellinghouse, garage and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5398
24 Jul 2020Withdrawn
To construct dwelling house, garage and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5585
1 May 2019Conditional
Retention of a domestic garage.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5102
10 Jul 2018Conditional
Retention of existing open cubicle beds and two no slatted slurry tanks, Permission to construct a cattle house with three no. slatted slurry tanks, calving/calf house, cattle holding yard with slatted slurry tank, Permission to roof existing open cubicle beds, Permission for change of use of existing dry storage building to a milking parlour, dairy and plant room, and carry out associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5810
26 Apr 2018Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system and all associated site works (change of site area and boundary to that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 17/5803)
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5033
16 Mar 2018Incompleted application
Construction of dwellinghouse, garage and wastewater treatment system and all associated site works (change of site area and boundary to that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 17/5803).
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4652
26 Feb 2018Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system and all associated site works (change of site area and boundary to that permitted under planning reg. 17/5803)
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4482
13 Jul 2017Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system (change of design from that granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/8493 and extension of duration under Planning Reg. No. 12/5849) including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5803
21 Aug 2015Withdrawn
Construction of dwellinghouse incorporating domestic garage, treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5862
27 Aug 2012Unconditional
Dwelling - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/8493
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5849
3 Jul 2012Conditional
Retention of plant room and alterations to dwellinghouse (permitted under Planning Reg. No. 07/8156) namely: (A) addition of 2 no. doors to the west elevation and (B) additional window to the north elevation and all ancillary works
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5445
16 May 2011Refused
Retention of [a] existing plastic recycling facility, [b] existing canteen and plastic baler serving the plastic recycling facility, and [c] existing agricultural shed for storage of farm machinery and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/5044
27 Apr 2011Incompleted application
Permission for Retention for (a) existing plastic recycling facility, (b) existing canteen and plastic baler serving the plastic recycling facility, (c) existing agricultural shed for the storage of farm machinery and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/4893
21 Dec 2010Conditional
Construction of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8755
26 May 2010Conditional
Retention of existing dwelling (change of plan from that permitted under planning ref.no. 03/1800)
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5296
14 May 2010Conditional
Construction of sun room to south elevation, porch to front of existing dwelling and single storey domestic garage to rear
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5175
5 Jun 2009Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5843
31 Mar 2009Unconditional
Completion of dormer dwelling granted under Pl. Reg. No. 03/5165 (New permission to expire on 21/04/2010).
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 09/4974
5 Dec 2008Conditional
Retention of minor alterations to dwelling, alterations to site boundaries and relocation of septic tank to that permitted under 05/4021
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9981
26 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Retention of minor alterations to dwelling, alterations to site boundaries & relocation of septic tank & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9834
27 Feb 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5056
1 Aug 2007Conditional
Single storey dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/9997
The 25 most recent of 58 applications.
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 Ardacrow.
Recorded monuments
- CO123-076 Burial ground
Description
In a level triangular area (c. 15m N-S; c. 9m E-W) at the junction of three roads. In the 1940s it was recorded that five soldiers of MacCarthy Reagh were buried here after an attack on the followers of O'Sullivan Bere (ITA). There are no visible remains of this possible burial ground at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardacrow.
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 Ardacrow, 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 Ardacrow.
- 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 Ardacrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ardacrow · Ard an Chró
- Area
- 2,108,810 m² (210.88 ha, 521.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathclarin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Rathclarin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 717 people lived in 234 households in the Rathclarin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barleyfield, Burren, Clooncalla Beg, Cloonderreen, Farrannagark, Glanduff, Shanakill
- Placenames
- Ardacrow 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.