Ardintenant
Ardintenant is a townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Ard an Teannáin.
- Area
- 48.4 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 8,678 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardintenant, from 76 m² to 90,321 m² (9.03 ha, 22.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 May 2025Conditional
Conversion of a stone barn to home studio ancillary to the main residential structure to include all associated works
Retention · Cork County Council, 25/285
23 Dec 2024Incompleted application
Retention of the conversion of a stone barn to home studio ancillary to the main residential structure to include all associated works
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/716
30 Apr 2018Unconditional
Construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage and associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 18/247
15 Jun 2016Conditional
Septic tank treatment system to comply with EPA regulations with ancillary and associated services to serve existing dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/376
19 May 2016Incompleted application
Proposed septic tank treatment system to comply with EPA regulations with ancillary and associated services to serve existing dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/302
21 Apr 2016Incompleted application
Proposed septic tank treatment system to comply with EPA regulations with ancillary and associated services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/239
18 Jul 2013Unconditional
Alterations to and refurbishment of existing dwelling including demolition of existing extensions and derelicts sheds, construction of new, part two-storey, extension including garage and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/421
11 Jun 2013Incompleted application
Alterations to and refurbishment of existing dwelling including demolition of existing extensions and derelicts sheds, construction of new, part two-storey, extension including garage and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/323
30 Jan 2013Conditional
New dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/52
22 Jan 2013Incompleted application
Construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/29
15 Nov 2011Conditional
Permission for erection of dwelling house and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/693
31 Mar 2008Conditional
Alterations to and refurbishment of existing dwelling including demolition of existing extensions and derelicts sheds, construction of new, part two-storey, extension including garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/571
29 Feb 2008Incompleted application
Alterations to and refurbishment of existing dwelling including demolition of existing extensions and derelict sheds, construction of new, part two-storey extension including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/384
26 Feb 2007Conditional
Construct silage slab, effluent tank and cattle house with slatted tanks
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/518
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: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101
Recorded monuments
- CO149-002 Castle - tower house
Description
Tower house and mural tower in ringfort (CO149-030---) c. 0.5km inland on N side of Roaringwater Bay. Rectangular (int. 7.15m E-W; int. 4.55m N-S) 4-storey tower house on NW line of bank of ringfort. Pointed vault over second floor. Ground- and first-floor door opes near W end of S wall, one above the other. Straight mural stairs rise from E ingoing of first-floor door to SE corner of third floor. Mural garderobe chamber in N wall at first-floor level; garderobe chute exit at base of E wall. Window opes poorly preserved: single round-headed lights at ground-floor level but otherwise appear to be square-headed. Third-floor window embrasures have stone seats; spiral stairs in SE corner give access to roof level. Numerous putlog holes on all external elevations. Base batter removed. Mural tower on line of bank to S. Rectangular 3-storey tower (int. 2.8m E-W; int. 1.32m N-S); clad in ivy. Pointed wicker-centred vault over second floor. Blocked opes in N and S walls at first-floor level. Splayed window opes at second-floor level obscured by growth. Spiral stairs above second-floor level in SW corner give access to roof level. O Mahony castle known as 'Whites castle' (O Laoghaire 1981, 20-1) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO149-002001 Bawn
Description
Tower house and mural tower in ringfort (CO149-030---) c. 0.5km inland on N side of Roaringwater Bay. Rectangular (int. 7.15m E-W; int. 4.55m N-S) 4-storey tower house on NW line of bank of ringfort. Pointed vault over second floor. Ground- and first-floor door opes near W end of S wall, one above the other. Straight mural stairs rise from E ingoing of first-floor door to SE corner of third floor. Mural garderobe chamber in N wall at first-floor level; garderobe chute exit at base of E wall. Window opes poorly preserved: single round-headed lights at ground-floor level but otherwise appear to be square-headed. Third-floor window embrasures have stone seats; spiral stairs in SE corner give access to roof level. Numerous putlog holes on all external elevations. Base batter removed. Mural tower on line of bank to S. Rectangular 3-storey tower (int. 2.8m E-W; int. 1.32m N-S); clad in ivy. Pointed wicker-centred vault over second floor. Blocked opes in N and S walls at first-floor level. Splayed window opes at second-floor level obscured by growth. Spiral stairs above second-floor level in SW corner give access to roof level. O Mahony castle known as 'White Castle' (O Laoghaire 1981, 20-1) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO149-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 38m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m) S->NE with remains of stone wall on top; external fosse (D 1.6m) SW-NW. Tower house and corner tower (CO149-002---) built on line of bank to NW and S respectively; laneway running NNW-SSE truncates bank to NE; farm building in SE quadrant. Low natural scarp running N-S crosses W half of interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardintenant.
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 Ardintenant, 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 Ardintenant.
- 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 Ardintenant with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ardintenant · Ard an Teannáin
- Area
- 483,577 m² (48.36 ha, 119.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skull, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Ballydehob, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 924 people lived in 404 households in the Ballydehob electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coosheen, Derreennatra, Gortnamona
- Placenames
- Ardintenant 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.