Ardra More
Townland in the civil parish of Rostellan, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Ardráth Mhór
- Area
- 118.4 ha
- 292 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 7,028 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardra More, from 893 m² to 388,290 m² (38.83 ha, 95.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardra More 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
27 Jan 2026Unconditional permission
Permission for the construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling including a single storey detached garage with covered canopy link, a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new site entrance, all associated site works and landscaping. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No.21/4239
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 26/0146
5 Feb 2021Conditional
The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling including a single storey detached garage with covered canopy link, a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new site entrance, all associated site works and landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4239
17 Dec 2020Incompleted application
The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling including a single storey detached garage with covered canopy link, and all associated site works, new site entrance, drainage works and associated landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6872
12 Oct 2020Conditional
The replacement of approximately 195m of existing 2.4m high chainlink fencing and associated gates with 195m of new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates and all associated site works at an existing above ground natural gas installation
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6224
31 Jul 2020Incompleted application
The replacement of approximately 195m of existing 2.4m high chainlink fencing and associated gates with 195m of new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5635
18 May 2015Conditional
Construction of dormer bungalow with detached domestic garage and domestic effluent treatment plant as well as site entrance and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5023
4 Sept 2014Conditional
Construction of storey and a half dwellinghouse and detached garage with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5880
12 May 2009Refused
Dwellinghouse (mainly two-storey and partially one-and-a-half storey and single storey) together with a separate farm building containing a garage, boiler room, storage area, vegetable packing room, chicken hatchery and animal feed store
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5519
9 Dec 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and proprietary wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10040
24 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, garage & proprietary wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9806
7 Aug 2008Withdrawn
Dwelling and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8300
15 Jul 2008Incompleted application
Dwelling and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7865
15 Jul 2008Withdrawn
Dwelling & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7884
17 Jun 2008Conditional
Machinery storage shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7321
9 May 2007Conditional
Dormer style dwellinghouse and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7639
12 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of cattle shed with slatted tanks and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13187
16 Oct 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse (change of plan) and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11464
26 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10912
3 May 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and domestic shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2898
18 Mar 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1622
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 Ardra More.
Recorded monuments
- CO088-061 Quarry
Description
Listed as a ‘quarry’ in the SMR (1988) and the RMP (1998). The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as the location of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 29 January 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardra More.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardra More.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ardra More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ardra More · Ardráth Mhór
- Area
- 1,183,692 m² (118.37 ha, 292.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rostellan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Inch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inch electoral division: 624 people in 211 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardra Beg, Ballincurrig, Ballytibbot, Coolbea, Rathcuppoge, Titeskin, Tullaheen Beg, Tullaheen More
- Placenames
- Ardra More 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.