# Ardvally, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 649,724 m² (64.97 ha, 160.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,692 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lower Killybegs, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/lower-killybegs.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Mulmosog, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 238 people lived in 91 households in the Mulmosog electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14975 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50113 - Centre: latitude 54.748198, longitude -8.394851 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardvally, from 1,358 m² to 173,764 m² (17.38 ha, 42.94 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1367246: 173,764 m² (17.38 ha, 42.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367246.md - Parcel 1418334: 83,203 m² (8.32 ha, 20.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418334.md - Parcel 1418329: 69,806 m² (6.98 ha, 17.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418329.md - Parcel 1418333: 67,436 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418333.md - Parcel 1369178: 44,849 m² (4.48 ha, 11.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369178.md - Parcel 1383590: 44,139 m² (4.41 ha, 10.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1383590.md - Parcel 1386775: 43,476 m² (4.35 ha, 10.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386775.md - Parcel 1405465: 42,031 m² (4.2 ha, 10.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405465.md - Parcel 1376590: 33,969 m² (3.4 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376590.md - Parcel 1423920: 26,716 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423920.md - Parcel 1357856: 25,692 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357856.md - Parcel 1412711: 14,823 m² (1.48 ha, 3.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412711.md - Parcel 1362696: 4,308 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362696.md - Parcel 1418336: 4,135 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1418336.md - Parcel 4632278: 2,788 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632278.md - Parcel 4632518: 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632518.md - Parcel 1417041: 2,208 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417041.md - Parcel 4632519: 2,200 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632519.md - Parcel 1391148: 2,192 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391148.md - Parcel 1324581: 1,772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324581.md - Parcel 4632280: 1,358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632280.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ardvally 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 22 Mar 2021, Donegal County Council 2150490: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINE STORAGE SHED, SILAGE PIT WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150490/0 - 3 Dec 2020, Donegal County Council 2051850: Unconditional. Extension of duration. (1) THE REFURBISHMENT OF, AND EXTENSION TO, THE EXISTING FORMER DWELLING BUILDING, (2) THE INSTALLATION OF AN APPROVED PROPRIETARY WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, (3) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE, ACCESS DRIVE-WAY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR AN EXISTING MOBILE HOME ON SITE FOR THE DURATION OF THE ABOVE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051850/0 - 2 Oct 2019, Donegal County Council 1951490: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951490/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardvally. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG083-001: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG083-001----. Kiltiernan Graveyard consists of a modern burial ground with no suggestion of a pre-18th century use other than its name. It is situated on top of a low hill in undulating good pasture land. 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 - DG083-005: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG083-005----. 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) - Kiltiernan Graveyard, graveyard/cemetery, 1700–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40836016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40836016. Graveyard on rectilinear-plan, erected c. 1750, having collection of mainly recumbent eighteenth and nineteenth-century gravemarkers. Some upstanding, Celtic cross and table-type memorials to site. Site surrounded by rubble or fieldstone boundary wall. Gateway to the east comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate. Located in the centre of a field to the south-east of Ardara in undulating countryside. - Farmyard complex, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40908317, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40908317. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with windbreak entrance, lean-to single-storey extension to rear and lean-to single-storey outbuilding attached to northwest end. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed openings, diminishing to first floor, with smooth-render surrounds, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation with painted stone sills, and timber battened door. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to southeast with external stone steps to northwest gable, one-bay single-storey addition to southeast and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Corrugated-iron roofs, pitched to main block and southeast addition and lean-to to rear addition, with rubble stone walls, rendered to additions, and square-headed openings with timber lintels and timber battened doors. ## 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 Ardvally, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1180, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1180.zip (ZIP). - 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/ardvally.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardvally.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardvally.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardvally 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) - Altnagapple: https://everytownland.com/donegal/altnagapple.md - Ardlougher: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardlougher.md - Meentanadea: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meentanadea.md - Mogumna: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mogumna.md - Mogumna Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mogumna-mountain.md - Moy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moy.md - Mullanacloy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullanacloy.md - Woodhill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/woodhill-52678.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/ardvally - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ardvally