Ardkilly
Ardkilly is a townland in the civil parish of Ringrone, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Ard Coille.
- Area
- 99.5 ha
- 246 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 2,670 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 91
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardkilly, from 55 m² to 158,776 m² (15.88 ha, 39.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ardkilly 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
30 Sept 2026Awaiting admin validation
Permission for Retention of two and a half storey dwelling house, as constructed, change of plan from previously granted planning ref. 77/3347 and all associated site works, at Ardkilly, Sandycove, Co. Cork
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/2532
27 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for :- 1) Demolition of an existing dwelling house, 2) Construction of a replacement dwelling house, 3) Construction of a new storage shed, 4) Decommissioning of the existing septic tank and the installation of a new tertiary wastewater treatment system, 5) Decommissioning of the existing bored well and connection to a new bored well, 6) New storm water soakaways, 7) Ancillary works and 8) All other necessary landscaping and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1413
5 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for completion of two storey dwelling, domestic garage, new site entrance and associated site works granted under Pl.Reg.No. 09/7037 and 20/5695 and extended under Pl.Reg.No. 14/6061 and Permission for Retention of alterations to elevations of existing part built dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1167
30 Oct 2025Unconditional permission
Permission for development to an existing dwelling house. Proposed works consist of : 1) demolish the existing south facing sunroom and replace it with a new single storey extension, 2) construct a new entrance porch on the northern elevation, 3) repalce three existing roof lights with three new dormer windows on the southern/rear roof, 4) carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6324
16 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a part single storey / Part two storey dwellinghouse, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5931
8 Sept 2025Unconditional permission
Permission for Retention of; (1) Demolition of dwelling house (cottage) & re-construction of dwelling house to match the original cottage (2) elevation alterations to extensions previously approved under Planning Reg. No. 20/4949, (3) alterations & extensions to construct rear plant room 5sq.m, rear store 5sq.m, shed 6.5sq.m and first floor external walkway to the rear 10.5sq.m and all site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5824
23 Apr 2025Unconditional
Permission for the construction of extensions and alterations to existing dwellinghouse and associated site works on site.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4761
3 Apr 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the demolition of existing tennis court and construction of a new detached storey and a half dwelling, new detached garage, new combined entrance, new bio filtration unit and well, and also a new waste water treatment unit to serve existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4586
3 Apr 2025Withdrawn
Permission for construction of a part single storey / Part two storey dwellinghouse, new vehicular entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4585
28 Feb 2025Incompleted application
Permission for the demolition of existing tennis court and construction of a new detached storey and a half dwelling, new detached garage, new combined entrance, new bio filtration unit and well, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4316
27 Feb 2025Application withdrawn
Permission for Retention of a two and a half storey dwelling house, as constructed, change of plan from previously granted planning ref. 77/3347 and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4305
11 Feb 2025Application invalid
Retention permission for a two and a half storey dwelling house, as constructed, change of plan from two storey dwelling house previously granted under planning ref 77/3347 and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4182
7 Feb 2025Incompleted application
Permission for the demolition of existing tennis court and construction of a new detached storey and a half dwelling, new combined entrance, new bio filtration unit and well, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4161
29 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission to 1) demolish an existing dwelling house, 2) construct a new dwelling house to replace the existing dwelling house demolished, 3) the upgrade of the current foul drainage infrastructure by decommissioning the existing septic tank and cess pit waste water treatment system and the installation/construction of a new tertiary wastewater treatment system, 4) construct a new storage shed, 5) new rainwater soakpits, 6) ancillary works and 7) all other associated site works including services above and below ground
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6264
9 Jul 2024Unconditional
Permission for extension and alterations to dwelling house to include removal of attached conservatory and construction of new single storey extension to side with alterations to elevations
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5295
23 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for retention for existing dwelling as constructed (change of plan to that permitted under PL. Reg. No. 89/875) and all ancillary works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/6342
29 Aug 2023Conditional permission
Permission for construction of a two storey dwelling house, installation of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5738
15 Mar 2023Unconditional
Retention planning permission for : Their single storey dwelling house (bungalow) as constructed, domestic garage, vehicular entrance and associated site work
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4473
19 Jan 2023Incompleted application
Single storey dwelling house (bungalow), as constructed, domestic garage, vehicular entrance and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4057
13 May 2022Conditional
Permission for retention for the change of use from a car garage to a studio and boot room attached to the existing dwelling house, permission for retention of the attached car port, plant room and shower room, permission for retention of the conservatory as constructed and permission for retention of the existing dwelling house elevations as constructed where they differ from the planning permission obtained in the planning application 95/4337, and permission for ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5113
25 Nov 2021Conditional
Alteration and extension to the dwelling and the temporary division of the existing dwelling house into 2 number dwellings and associated site works. One extension will extend beyond the east facing façade.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7183
21 Oct 2021Incompleted application
Construction of two number single storey extensions to the rear of the existing dwelling. One extension will extend beyond the east facing facade
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6877
10 Aug 2020Conditional
Completion of two storey dwelling, domestic garage, new site entrance and associated site works all under construction granted under Planning Reg No. 09/7037 and extended under Planning Reg No. 14/6061.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5695
13 May 2020Conditional
To construct a ground floor and first floor extension to existing single storey cottage including a new terrace at first floor level, energy retrofit upgrades and reconstruction of existing walls, floors and re-roofing, alterations to elevations, up grading of the existing waste water treatment system to include a new wastewater filter bed and associated site works and services (change of design from that permitted under Planning Ref. No. 19/06032)
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4949
9 Apr 2020Incompleted application
Construction of a ground floor and first floor extension to existing single storey cottage, including energy retrofit upgrades and reconstruction of existing walls, floors and re-roofing, alterations to elevations, upgrading of existing waste water treatment system to include new waste water filter bed and associated site works and services (change of design from that submitted under Planning Ref. No. 19/06032).
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4723
The 25 most recent of 91 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 Ardkilly.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardkilly.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch rubble stone road bridge, built c.1830. Round-headed arch with dressed stone voussoirs and rubble stone soffit. Roughly dressed limestone walls and parapets, having drainage slots (south-east). Later rubble stone and cement repairs to parapet.
- House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with gabled single-bay three-storey block attached to east, having four-bay side elevation. Recent lean-to timber extension to additional block (north) with corrugated-iron roof. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks, timber barge and eaves boards, and uPVC, cast-iron and aluminium rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with stone sills to front (south) and rear (north) elevations of main block, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor. Bipartite timber framed windows to ground floor having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Diminishing square-headed window openings with stone sills to front (west) and rear (east) elevations of additional block, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Recent timber casement window to ground floor of front elevation. Square-headed window openings with stone sills to side (south) elevation of additional block, having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed recessed door opening to front elevation of main block having raised render surround and glazed timber door. Square-headed door opening to front elevation of additional block having glazed timber door, surmounted by recent timber canopy with slate roof. Square-headed door opening having recent double-leaf glazed timber French doors. Rubble stone outbuilding to west with single-pitch corrugated-iron roof.
- Post box, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, installed c.1915, set in rubble stone wall, with G.R. insignia and crown to post box and S. É insignia and harp to door.
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 Ardkilly, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardkilly.
- 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 Ardkilly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ardkilly · Ard Coille
- Area
- 995,447 m² (99.54 ha, 245.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ringrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinsale
- Electoral division
- Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,605 people lived in 1,855 households in the Kinsale Rural electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacaw, Ballynabooly, Ringrone
- Placenames
- Ardkilly 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.