Ardun

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardun, from 545 m² to 148,944 m² (14.89 ha, 36.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ardun 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.

• 17 Apr 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850602

• 26 Jan 2017Unconditional

  A CONSERVATORY TO THE FRONT FACADE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750090

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardun.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardun, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Ardun.

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 Ardun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ardun · An tArd Donn

Area

1,016,033 m² (101.6 ha, 251.07 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Graffy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

150 people lived in 65 households in the Graffy electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 33% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornagrillagh, Drumconcoose, Drumnalough, Mullanmore, Mully, Strasallagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ardun 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.