Ardarou
Ardarou is a townland in the civil parish of Ardnageehy, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Ard an Rabhaidh.
- Area
- 149.1 ha
- 369 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 41,509 m² (4.15 ha, 10.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardarou, from 2,050 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 467,285 m² (46.73 ha, 115.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ardarou 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
21 Jul 2023Conditional
1) Construct an extension to the existing dairy, 2) Construct an extension to an existing slatted slurry tank, 3) Construct a roof over the existing collection yard, 2 no. existing slatted tanks and proposed slatted tank extension along with raising the roof over the existing milking parlour, dairy and plant room, 4) Construct an extension to the existing silage base along with all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5489
27 Feb 2017Conditional
Retention for an existing 30m telecommunications structure carrying telecommunications equipment, associated equipment cabin, fenced secure compound and access track. Permission is also sought for additional telecommunications equipment and associated equipment cabinet. This development will continue to form part of existing Broadband Network.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4436
4 Jul 2016Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage , install a septic tank and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5649
22 Dec 2015Conditional
(1) Demolition of existing calf shed, (2) construction of a cubicle shed with underground slatted tank, (3) construction of a dungstead, (4) construction of an extension to the existing dairy, (5) construction of an extension to existing silage base, (6) construction of a calf shed, (7) installation of a feed silo bin along with all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6948
26 Jun 2008Conditional
Demolition of dungstead and collection yard walls and construction of extended collection yard including walls, extension to existing milking parlour, underground slatted tank, feed silo and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7514
13 Sept 2007Withdrawn
Dwelling and garage (change of plan & site layout) and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10989
19 Dec 2005Conditional
Demolition of farm shed and construction of agricultural storage shed, extension to existing milking premises to include underground slatted tank in collection yard, extension to cubicle house and underground slatted tank, extension to cow shed and construction of concrete silage base with effluent storage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9444
3 Feb 2003Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/377
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bride/Bunaglanna Valley 000079
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardarou.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardarou.
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 Ardarou, 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 high, 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 Ardarou.
- 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 Ardarou with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ardarou · Ard an Rabhaidh
- Area
- 1,491,267 m² (149.13 ha, 368.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardnageehy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Kildinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 681 people lived in 211 households in the Kildinan electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bridestown, Bunaglanna, Glenville, Lackendarragh Middle, Lackendarragh North, Moneygorm
- Placenames
- Ardarou 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.