Ardnaditian
Ardnaditian is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 33.8 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,978 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnaditian, from 29 m² to 80,074 m² (8.01 ha, 19.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Ardnaditian 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
17 Jun 2026Conditional
DEMOLITION OF A TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEWLY DESIGNED REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661112
21 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, COMPRISING OF A SUN ROOM AND GROUND FLOOR ENTRANCE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051572
25 Sept 2020Conditional
(1) ALTERATIONS AND MINOR EXTENSIONS TO DWELLING (2) DOMESTIC CAR-PORT INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051366
17 Sept 2020N/a
(1) ALTERATIONS AND MINOR EXTENSIONS TO DWELLING (2) DOMESTIC CAR-PORT INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051306
6 Oct 2017Conditional
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING WHICH INCLUDES, (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR (B) CONVERSION OF ATTACHED GARAGE INTO LIVING ROOM (C) INSTALLATION OF A CORNER WINDOW FACING SOUTHEAST & SOUTHWEST AND REPLACEMENT OF GARAGE DOOR WITH A WINDOW TO THE NORTH EAST ELEVATION (D) ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751521
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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166
Recorded monuments
- DG054-004 Burial ground
Description
Known locally as 'the burial ground' the site is a low mound, almost natural looking. Situated on a slope running down to Lough Swilly. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardnaditian.
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 Ardnaditian, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardnaditian.
- 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 Ardnaditian with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ardnaditian
- Area
- 337,975 m² (33.8 ha, 83.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raymoghy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Manorcunningham, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,314 people lived in 475 households in the Manorcunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balleeghan, Ballylawn, Tirharon
- Placenames
- Ardnaditian 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.