Ards Big

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ards Big, from 133 m² to 418,204 m² (41.82 ha, 103.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ards Big 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.

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461063

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ards Big.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over partly exposed basement, built c.1900, presenting three storeys to rear, with projecting porch to front (southeast) and single-storey addition to rear. Hipped cement-tiled roof on projecting eaves with paired brackets on smooth eaves course with moulded string course beneath, replacement rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystacks to gable ends with decorative clay pots; flat roof to porch with cornice eaves course; pitched slate roof to extension. Roughcast-rendered walls with plinth course to basement and sill course to first floor. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and two-over-two horizontal pane sliding sash windows, paired to end bays of front elevation, single to other elevations and to porch, and one-over-one pane window to middle bay of first floor front. Round-headed stairs window to rear with horizontal-pane fixed window and spoked fanlight. Square-headed timber panelled door with overlight to side wall of porch, approached by stone steps with rendered wall. Set in mature gardens, approached by laneway from southwest, with formal garden to south having rubble stone boundary wall, and series of gable-fronted single-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched replacement slate roofs, overhanging eaves on exposed rafter ends, and having replacement rainwater goods; limewashed rendered walls and square-headed openings with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash, and timber casement and fixed windows.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ards Big, 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 Ards Big.

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.

No address of the register names Ards Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ards Big · Na hArdaí Móra

Area

2,058,261 m² (205.83 ha, 508.61 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,494 people lived in 938 households in the Rathmelton electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ards Little, Ballyarr, Booragh, Breaghy, Carnisk, Claragh, Meenatole

Placenames

Ards Big 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.