Ardee
Ardee is a townland in the civil parish of Allsaints, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 146.3 ha
- 362 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 2,387 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardee, from 7 m² to 278,770 m² (27.88 ha, 68.89 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ardee 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
6 May 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660816
17 Feb 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660227
16 Jan 2025Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND GARDEN ROOM AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME ON SITE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560034
24 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN ABOVE GROUND SLURRY STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251420
10 May 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING, A NEW DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH PERCOLATION AREA; ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250808
6 Apr 2021Conditional
CONVERSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO GRANNY FLAT (B) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION WITH CAR-PORT TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (C) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150589
22 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2052019
12 Aug 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETATCHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951238
20 Mar 2017Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF A GRANNY FLAT WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750402
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 Ardee.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardee.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1740–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch road-over-river bridge, built c. 1760. Segmental-headed arches, with narrow rubble voussoirs, random rubble soffit to vault. Random uncoursed rubble stone piers, spandrels and parapets, rough stone coping on edge to parapets. Single lane carriageway over.
- Farm house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farm house, built c. 1860, on a rectangular plan with two-storey gable-fronted return to rear and annex attached to south. Pitched artificial slate roof with painted timber fascia and soffit boards to eaves, grey clayware ridge tiles and buff brick chimneystacks to gables with polygonal yellow clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with block-and-start quoins on a smooth rendered plinth, with a smooth render to each gable above eaves level. Segmental-headed window openings to front with square-headed openings to rear and north, all with smooth rendered reveals and painted sills containing six-over-six horned timber sash windows; segmental-headed window opening with coloured margin panes to rear. Segmental-headed door opening with smooth rendered reveals with a glazed timber fanlight over a six-panel timber door and glazed sidelights with a concrete step and cast-iron boot scraper. Set back from the road within own grounds with accessed by wrought-iron gates mounted on smooth rendered piers with pyramidal copings and ball finial flanked by smooth rendered stone walls. Rectangular yard containing sheds and random rubble outbuildings sited to the north of house. Outbuilding to south of the yard comprises of a four-bay two-storey structure with a slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, random uncoursed rubble walls with square-headed door and window openings with a large metal door to gable end. Single-storey ranges to north and west of yard with natural slate roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods and random uncoursed rubble walls containing square-headed door and window openings. Single-storey structure with corrugated-metal roof and random uncoursed rubble walls containing square-headed door and window openings to the east of the yard.
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 Ardee, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1892 (ZIP).
- 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 Ardee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ardee
- Area
- 1,463,488 m² (146.35 ha, 361.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Allsaints, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybegly, Ballylevin, Killyverry, Moneygreggan, Moyle, Murlough, Roughan, Sharon Glebe, Slatehill
- Placenames
- Ardee 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.