# Ards Little, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Na hArdaí Beaga. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 838,362 m² (83.84 ha, 207.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,804 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 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): Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own 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/15998 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50108 - Centre: latitude 55.01811, longitude -7.701922 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ards Little, from 164 m² to 188,388 m² (18.84 ha, 46.55 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1420362: 188,388 m² (18.84 ha, 46.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420362.md - Parcel 1420334: 183,352 m² (18.34 ha, 45.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420334.md - Parcel 1420332: 165,894 m² (16.59 ha, 40.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420332.md - Parcel 1385516: 143,198 m² (14.32 ha, 35.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385516.md - Parcel 1385517: 62,639 m² (6.26 ha, 15.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385517.md - Parcel 1385515: 32,050 m² (3.21 ha, 7.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385515.md - Parcel 1420333: 21,632 m² (2.16 ha, 5.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420333.md - Parcel 3662640: 8,931 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662640.md - Parcel 1385514: 8,245 m² (0.82 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385514.md - Parcel 5066624: 5,407 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5066624.md - Parcel 2390720: 4,804 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390720.md - Parcel 3662642: 3,493 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662642.md - Parcel 2452263: 3,003 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2452263.md - Parcel 3830640: 2,196 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3830640.md - Parcel 5066622: 2,132 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5066622.md - Parcel 1385537: 1,114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385537.md - Parcel 1420331: 716 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1420331.md - Parcel 3662641: 506 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662641.md - Parcel 3830646: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3830646.md - Parcel 2390726: 250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390726.md - Parcel 5186989: 164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5186989.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ards Little 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. - 21 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561242: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STABLE BLOCK, HORSE ARENA INCLUDING FLOOD LIGHTING, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561242/0 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 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ards Little. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ards Little. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ards Little. - 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-little.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-little.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-little.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ards Little 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 Big: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-big.md - Ballyarr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyarr.md - Barrack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/barrack.md - Bohirril Park: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bohirril-park.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-little - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ards-little