# Ards, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Ardaidh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,292,542 m² (229.25 ha, 566.5 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 130,987 m² (13.1 ha, 32.37 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clondahorky, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondahorky.md
- Barony: Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division: Ards, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ards electoral division: 805 people in 270 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14305
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50105
- Centre: latitude 55.160393, longitude -7.870257 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ards, from 804 m² to 1,479,459 m² (147.95 ha, 365.58 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1395681: 1,479,459 m² (147.95 ha, 365.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395681.md
- Parcel 1394157: 682,086 m² (68.21 ha, 168.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394157.md
- Parcel 1407281: 130,987 m² (13.1 ha, 32.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407281.md
- Parcel 4746378: 1,562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4746378.md
- Parcel 3660560: 804 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660560.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ards 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)

7 applications, newest first.

- 1 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351663: Conditional. Permission. MINOR REVISIONS TO INCLUDE THE REDUCTION OF THE CAPACITY OF REEDBED AND WETLAND DESIGN PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLAN. REG. REF. : 22/50612. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351663/0
- 27 Jun 2022, Donegal County Council 2251094: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN EXTERNAL COLUMBARIUM WITH A NATURAL STONE AND SMOOTH CONCRETE RENDER ENVELOPE HOUSING BRONZE PLATED COLUMBARIUM NICHES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251094/0
- 8 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250612: Conditional. Permission. DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK/PERCOLATION AREA & INSTALLATION OF A NEW REED BED & WETLAND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250612/0
- 15 May 2019, Donegal County Council 1950743: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950743/0
- 23 Nov 2017, Donegal County Council 1751770: N/a. Permission. DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING TOILET BLOCK AND REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW TOILET BLOCK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751770/0
- 2 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750306: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES EXCAVATIONS TO FORM LEVEL GROUND, THE FORMATION OF LAND RETAINING STRUCTURES, INSTALLATION OF A NEW PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, THE FORMATION OF A NEW SAND POLISHING FILTER, THE ERECTION OF A NEW 1.8M HIGH METAL FENCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750306/0
- 17 Feb 2017, Donegal County Council 1750241: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES EXCAVATIONS TO FORM LEVEL GROUND, THE FORMATION OF LAND RETAINING STRUCTURES, INSTALLATION OF A NEW PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, THE FORMATION OF A NEW SAND POLISHING FILTER, THE ERECTION OF A NEW 1.8M HIGH METAL FENCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750241/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Sheephaven SAC, site code 001190, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001190
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven, site code 001190

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG026-044: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG026-044----. 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.

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Ards House, outbuilding, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40902616, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40902616. Detached eight-bay two-storey U-plan outbuilding, built c.1860, with central enclosed courtyard, having three-bay two-storey wing to northwest and six-bay two-storey wing to southeast, and with two-bay single-storey over basement addition to southeast. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Roughcast rendered walls to courtyard, and coursed sandstone rubble walls to northeast, northwest and southeast. Rubble walls to southeast addition. Three-centred integral carriage arch to left-hand-side of southwest elevation, with raised block-and-start surround, segmental arch to centre with raised chamfered stone surround, and chamfered red brick surround to northeast elevation. Pointed segmental-headed window openings with stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Segmental-headed doorways with raised chamfered stone surrounds. Oculus vent openings to first floor, with rendered cut-stone surrounds to courtyard and half-dressed voussoirs to northeast. Series of segmental-headed integral arches to courtyard elevations of northwest and southeast wings. Set in overgrown woodland, with friary and church to northeast and road to northwest.
- Ards House, walled garden, 1860–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40902619, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40902619. Rectangular-plan walled garden, built c.1870, associated with Ards House (demolished). Now overgrown and disused. Rubble sandstone walls with slate course and field-stone coping. Segmental relieving arch to northwest and flat-arch pedestrian entrances to northwest and northeast, with timber battened double-leaf doors and remains of cast ironmongery. Raised corner with large quoins at southwest. Set along road, with grass verge to northwest and overgrown mature gardens and woodland surrounding.
- Ards House, steward's house, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 40902624, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40902624. Detached three-bay single-storey T-plan former steward's house with attic, built c.1880, having porch to front re-entrant corner (southeast) and projecting gables to south and east. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves, decorative clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystack and replacement rainwater goods. Decorative exposed timber bargeboards to projecting gables, supported on decorative timber trusses on stepped corbels. Catslide slate roof to porch with overhanging eaves supported on decorative trusses on stepped corbels. Roughcast painted walls with raised smooth-rendered quoins. Camber-arch openings with raised chamfered render bands, painted stone sills and replacement windows, and with replacement timber panelled and glazed door. House set on rising ground, with surrounding lawn and freestanding metal posts and gate to front.
- Ards House, church/chapel, 1960–1970, Regional interest, registry number 40902625, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40902625. Attached gable-fronted friary church, built c.1965, having eight-bay nave, gable-front having three-bay single-storey porch and two-stage steeple, and single-storey sacristy to northeast. Pitched concrete tiled roof with overhanging eaves, replacement rainwater goods, octagonal lead steeple with cross finial and sprocketed eaves to upper level. Flat roof to porch with centred gablet and rendered coping; mono-pitch concrete tiled roof to sacristy. Rusticated concrete walls. Pointed-arch openings to nave with concrete surrounds and sills, having four-pane stained-glass units inset with concrete profiled mullions and transoms. Segmental-headed window opening to southwest gable with concrete surround and sill and vertical multiple-pane stained-glass window inset with concrete profiled transoms. Pointed-arch doorway to porch with moulded concrete surround and timber battened double-leaf door. Interior has convex-arch roof with exposed beams and panelled plastered ceiling with ocular insets, exposed columns flanking window openings, painted walls, altar to northeast and confessional to southwest flanking porch. Convex-arch opening leading into friary at southeast. Car park to front and gardens to southwest.

## 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ards.
- 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.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Ards, Creeslough: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/donegal/ards-creeslough.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Rinnasligo: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rinnasligo.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.

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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
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ards