Ards More (West)
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork; in Irish Na hArda Móra Thiar
- Area
- 31.8 ha
- 79 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 41,784 m² (4.18 ha, 10.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ards More (West), from 975 m² to 146,573 m² (14.66 ha, 36.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Ards More (West) 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
23 Apr 2012Unconditional
Construction of new two storey detached house with waste water treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/266
25 Sept 2007Conditional
Construction of new two storey detached house with waste water treatment unit, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2509
17 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Construction of new two storey detached house with waste treatment unit, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2214
2 Aug 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, carport and seperate dwelling unit to serve as guest accommodation, sewage treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2078
23 Jul 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, carport and seperate dwelling unit to serve as guest accommodation, sewage treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1989
22 May 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, guest accomodation, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1345
16 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, guestaccommodation, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1030
2 Mar 2007Withdrawn
Construct new two store dwellinghouse with septic tank, vehicular entrance, water well and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/596
8 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Construct new two storey detached dwellinghouse, septic tank, vehicular entrance, water well and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/331
22 Dec 2006Incompleted application
To construct a new two storey detached dwelling house, a vehicular entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2898
12 Dec 2003Refused
Dwelling House
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6396
8 Jul 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3375
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 Ards More (West).
Recorded monuments
- CO106-024 Souterrain
Description
Local tradition of souterrain previously filled in; no visible surface trace. (WBBS). Myler (1998, 45) informs us that the field in which the possible souterrain occurs is known locally as the 'convent field'. Myler (1998, 45) also gives an account (taken in 1938) of men entereing an underground passage on the site 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: 24 January 2013
- CO106-025 Burial ground
Description
Flat area (L c.0.8m; Wth 12m) known locally as "Killeenagh" and "Famine burial ground". Some low mounds may indicate burials. One possible gravemarker at W end of raised area (L 6m; Wth c. 0.8m; H 0.15m). (WBBS). Myler (1998, 47) records 'several stone burial markers' around a hawthorn tree on the site. He also records that the site 'runs east to west and is bounded by a thorny raised bank on the north side and the river bank to the south'. 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: 24 January 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ards More (West).
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ards More (West).
- 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 Ards More (West) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ards More (West) · Na hArda Móra Thiar
- Area
- 318,232 m² (31.82 ha, 78.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmocomoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Mealagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mealagh electoral division: 401 people in 148 households; 88% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ards More (East), Dromclogh West, Dromsullivan North, Maulikeeve
- Placenames
- Ards More (West) 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.