# Ards Big, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Na hArdaí Móra. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,058,261 m² (205.83 ha, 508.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,144 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Conwal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/conwal.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rathmelton, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15997 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50107 - Centre: latitude 55.019749, longitude -7.684536 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ards Big, from 133 m² to 418,204 m² (41.82 ha, 103.34 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1420327: 418,204 m² (41.82 ha, 103.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420327.md - Parcel 1321647: 263,123 m² (26.31 ha, 65.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321647.md - Parcel 1385513: 194,533 m² (19.45 ha, 48.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385513.md - Parcel 1329834: 156,010 m² (15.6 ha, 38.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329834.md - Parcel 1420326: 147,462 m² (14.75 ha, 36.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420326.md - Parcel 1361559: 136,636 m² (13.66 ha, 33.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361559.md - Parcel 1385511: 131,894 m² (13.19 ha, 32.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385511.md - Parcel 1426832: 116,701 m² (11.67 ha, 28.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426832.md - Parcel 1330584: 97,623 m² (9.76 ha, 24.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330584.md - Parcel 1412975: 93,960 m² (9.4 ha, 23.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412975.md - Parcel 1385510: 68,393 m² (6.84 ha, 16.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385510.md - Parcel 3662155: 57,894 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662155.md - Parcel 1352707: 32,491 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352707.md - Parcel 1385429: 30,715 m² (3.07 ha, 7.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385429.md - Parcel 1420330: 25,280 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420330.md - Parcel 1420325: 20,758 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420325.md - Parcel 4203385: 6,144 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4203385.md - Parcel 1385512: 5,508 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385512.md - Parcel 5379812: 4,470 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5379812.md - Parcel 1351716: 4,429 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351716.md - Parcel 1375102: 4,312 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375102.md - Parcel 1385491: 4,055 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385491.md - Parcel 3662154: 3,839 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662154.md - Parcel 4784879: 3,817 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4784879.md - Parcel 4784496: 3,696 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4784496.md - Parcel 1406736: 2,511 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406736.md - Parcel 1410790: 2,488 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410790.md - Parcel 1398316: 2,442 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398316.md - Parcel 1398315: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398315.md - Parcel 1398317: 1,984 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398317.md - Parcel 1314083: 1,568 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314083.md - Parcel 1357538: 1,113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357538.md - Parcel 1314098: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314098.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 11 Jul 2024, Donegal County Council 2461063: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461063/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC, site code 002176, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002176 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern, site code 001162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ards Big. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1890–1910, Regional interest, registry number 40904532, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40904532. 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. ## 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 Ards Big, 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 Ards Big. - 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/ards-big.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-big.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-big.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ards Little: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-little.md - Ballyarr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyarr.md - Booragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/booragh.md - Breaghy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/breaghy-50378.md - Carnisk: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carnisk.md - Claragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/claragh.md - Meenatole: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenatole.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/ards-big - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ards-big