Ardaun
Townland in the civil parish of Oranmore, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Na hArdáin
- Area
- 41.3 ha
- 102 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 1,931 m²
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardaun, from 78 m² to 250,825 m² (25.08 ha, 61.98 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
- P1Agriculture
Galway City Development Plan 2023 - 2029, Galway · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3Residential (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Galway City Development Plan 2023 - 2029, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Recreation and Amenity (Open space, park)
Galway City Development Plan 2023 - 2029, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Feb 2019Conditional
for demolition of existing two storey house and the construction of a replacement two storey house, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Retention permission is also sought for change of shed design to that previously granted under Planning Ref: 66514. Also change of windows and replacement of roof finish of existing shed to match proposed house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 349.7 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Shed - 63.7 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 304 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19263
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 Ardaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardaun.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_528 (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 Ardaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ardaun · Na hArdáin
- Area
- 412,567 m² (41.26 ha, 101.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oranmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintemple electoral division: 1,609 people in 566 households; 78% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartron, Garraun North, Garraun South
- Placenames
- Ardaun 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.