Ardvarnock Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Ardbhearna
- Area
- 107.9 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 32,051 m² (3.21 ha, 7.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardvarnock Glebe, from 652 m² to 171,333 m² (17.13 ha, 42.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardvarnock Glebe 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Jan 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560017
1 Sept 2023Conditional
AN INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND (ICW) FOR THE TREATMENT OF SURFACE WATER RUNOFF AND DAIRY SOILED WATERS GENERATED FROM THE PROPERTY'S ORGANIC FARM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351306
8 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850894
28 Jun 2017Conditional
DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE DWELLING, WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751008
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardvarnock Glebe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardvarnock Glebe.
Architectural heritage
- Ardvarnock House, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house on ‘L-shaped’ plan, built c. 1850, having two-storey extension to north. Hipped natural purple slate roof with projecting cut stone eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks having flat copings and decorative clay-ware pots over. Flat felted roof to rear extension. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed windows openings with stone sills, and with six-over-six pane hornless timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level, and three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level. Central segmental-headed door opening having timber panelled double-doors with square, oval and hexagonal panels, spoked fanlight with coloured glass panels to margins, and doorcase comprising a pair of timber Tuscan columns supporting entablature over with central floral\patera motif. Stone threshold to doorway. Set back from road in extensive mature landscape grounds in the rural countryside to the west of Raphoe and the north-east of Convoy. Detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding to the rear (north) having pitched natural slate roof with some surviving cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with replacement windows, and square-headed doorways and loading bays with battened timber doors and half-doors. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of splayed smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked by curved quadrant sections of smooth rendered boundary walls having integral pointed-arched pedestrian entrance to the east with replacement gate. Single stage folly (on circular-plan) to site having conical roof over.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1812 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardvarnock Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ardvarnock Glebe · An Ardbhearna
- Area
- 1,079,382 m² (107.94 ha, 266.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raphoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Figart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Figart electoral division: 1,131 people in 384 households; 79% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Burnside, Creggan, Deerpark, Figart, Kiltole, Tullydonnell Lower, Tullydonnell Upper
- Placenames
- Ardvarnock Glebe 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.