# Ard, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish An Aird. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 447,909 m² (44.79 ha, 110.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 497,245 m² (49.72 ha, 122.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md - Barony: Moycullen - Electoral division: Oughterard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20823 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60088 - Centre: latitude 53.431258, longitude -9.243943 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ard, from 497,245 m² (49.72 ha, 122.87 acres) to 497,245 m² (49.72 ha, 122.87 acres); 1 neighbouring parcel touches its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2103727: 497,245 m² (49.72 ha, 122.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2103727.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ard 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) No planning application touches the townland of Ard in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC, site code 000297, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000297 - Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA, site code 004042, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004042 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib, site code 000297 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA055-013: Cist, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA055-013----. On the summit of a ridged promontory jutting out into Lough Corrib. A rectangular cist-like structure exposed in the face of a quarry. Excavation in 1986 revealed it to have been aligned ENE-WSW but previously unroofed and both ends robbed (L >2.2m, Wth 0.44m, H 0.39m). (Casey 1988a) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ard. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: the EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Ard. - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_356, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_356.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/galway/ard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardnasillagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardnasillagh.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/galway/ard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ard