Ards More

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ards More, from 280 m² to 65,179 m² (6.52 ha, 16.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ards More 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.

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050267

• 11 Mar 2019N/a

  COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER 08/31063 CURRENTLY CONSTRUCTED TO SUBFLOOR LEVEL AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950309

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: Ballyness Bay SAC 001090
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyness Bay 001090

Recorded monuments

• DG024-008 Burial ground
  Description

  There is now no definite trace of Rinnafadda Graveyard marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was located on a promontory jutting E into the estuary of the Glenna River. 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

• DG024-009 Burial ground
  Description

  A burial ground here now consists of an uncultivated area, c. 18m E-W and c. 14m N-S, although it was formerly more extensive, a section having been converted into a garden. There are a number of graveslabs, most of which have collapsed. Close to the N side of the site is a block of stone .59m x .4m with a depression .3m x .24m and 0.06m deep. The site is located in good land on a gentle E facing slope overlooking the estuary of the Glenna River. 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

• DG024-009001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ards More.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 More.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ards More · An Ardaidh Mhór

Area

625,553 m² (62.56 ha, 154.58 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Gortahork, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortahork electoral division: 1,693 people in 667 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ards Beg, Gortahork, Keeldrum Lower

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ards More 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.