# Ardahee, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 221,400 m² (22.14 ha, 54.71 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,742 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Leck, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/leck.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Ballymacool, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,741 people lived in 963 households in the Ballymacool electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15425 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50066 - Centre: latitude 54.931022, longitude -7.796537 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardahee, from 140 m² to 112,397 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1394839: 112,397 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394839.md - Parcel 1331524: 81,969 m² (8.2 ha, 20.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331524.md - Parcel 1357628: 2,566 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357628.md - Parcel 1315188: 1,742 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315188.md - Parcel 1339852: 1,529 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339852.md - Parcel 1399839: 1,001 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399839.md - Parcel 4134741: 140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4134741.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ardahee in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 26 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560840: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560840/0 - 12 Mar 2025, Donegal County Council 2560348: Conditional. Permission. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FARM SHED AND ERECTION OF EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH EFFLUENT STORAGE UNDER INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560348/0 - 7 Feb 2024, Donegal County Council 2460112: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF TWO POULTRY SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460112/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardahee. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG061-001: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG061-001----. Castle Sollus (site of): Cathbarr O'Donnell died here in 1580 (AFM). It was described in 1654-6 as the 'old Castle of Scarsolus' (Simmington 1937, 119). The remains of this castle were pulled down in the early 19th century. It stood on the S bank of the River Swilly and probably served to guard the ford, Scairbh Sholais, from which it received its name (O'Flanagan 1927, 125). No visible trace of this castle survives. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardahee. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ardahee, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Ardahee. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardahee.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardahee.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardahee.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardahee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyconnelly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyconnelly-50191.md - Doon Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doon-glebe.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/milltown-52049.md - Roughan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roughan-52327.md - Tullygay: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullygay.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardahee - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ardahee