# Ardacong, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Liskeevy, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Arda Conga. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 809,048 m² (80.9 ha, 199.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,958 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Liskeevy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/liskeevy.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Tuam Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Tuam Rural electoral division: 6,556 people in 2,346 households; 65% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22005 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60090 - Centre: latitude 53.539583, longitude -8.849084 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardacong, from 3,645 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres) to 389,636 m² (38.96 ha, 96.28 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3232929: 389,636 m² (38.96 ha, 96.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3232929.md - Parcel 2101493: 226,584 m² (22.66 ha, 55.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2101493.md - Parcel 2052066: 157,328 m² (15.73 ha, 38.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2052066.md - Parcel 4639539: 13,958 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4639539.md - Parcel 2101492: 12,611 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2101492.md - Parcel 4662021: 5,294 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4662021.md - Parcel 2052065: 3,645 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2052065.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ardacong 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 22 Aug 2024, Galway County Council 2461099: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to restore a fire damaged dwelling house to; a) renovate, remodel and extend existing fire damaged dwelling/farm house, b) install new effluent treatment system, remove existing septic tank, install new percolation area, c) repair roof to outbuildings adjoining farmyard, d) realign entrance driveway and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 51.00 sqm & 223.00 sqm (garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461099/0 - 3 Dec 2023, Galway County Council 2361440: N/a. Permission. to restore a fire damaged dwelling house to; a) renovate, remodel and extend existing fire damaged dwelling/ farmhouse, b) install new effluent treatment system, remove existing septic tank, install new percolation area, c) repair roof to outbuildings adjoining farmyard and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 51 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361440/0 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 Ardacong. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA029-010: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-010----. In a level tilled field. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. Costello (1903, 3) noted that 'the greater part of this fort was levelled and the ditch filled with stones'. There is a souterrain (GA029-010001-) within the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA029-010001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-010001-. Within S half of a ringfort (GA029-010----). Fairly well-preserved drystone-built souterrain consisting of two chambers connected by a creep. Present access via displaced roof lintel in 1st chamber L 12m, Wth 1.7m) which runs E-W. The E half is robbed out. A creep and short passage (L 4m, Wth 0.9m) near SW end lead to 2nd chamber (L 8m) which runs NW-SE. (Costello 1902b, 111; Costello 1903, 3-4) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA029-012: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-012----. In tillage overlooking marshy land to SW. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (N-S c. 75m, E-W c. 50m). No visible surface trace survives. Probably a bivallate ringfort as Costello (1903, 2-3) noted the existence of 'two mounds and intervening ditch'. The inner face of the inner bank contained 'several large stones still remaining and it was probably when perfect, faced with these boulders' (ibid). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). 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 Ardacong. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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 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_705, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_705.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/ardacong.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardacong.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardacong.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardacong 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) - Ballytrasna: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballytrasna.md - Carrownagarry: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrownagarry.md - Kilcloghans: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilcloghans.md - Lambhill: https://everytownland.com/galway/lambhill.md - Lissavally (Jackson): https://everytownland.com/galway/lissavally-jackson.md - Marley: https://everytownland.com/galway/marley.md - Mountpotter: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountpotter.md - Quaybaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/quaybaun.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/ardacong - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ardacong