Ardfry

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardfry, from 20 m² to 286,678 m² (28.67 ha, 70.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 4 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardfry 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.

• 22 Mar 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a single dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 190 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260259

• 20 Feb 2020N/a

  for the (a) demolition of existing, part complete substandard dwelling house (b) the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, incorporating a domestic garage, (c) associated landscaping (d) the construction of a treatment unit, polishing filter and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 505.65 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 308.24 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20218

• 13 Sept 2018Conditional

  for (a) the extension , modification and completion of the existing dwelling granted planning permission under planning ref. No. 02/2963 (b) Extension and modifications to include an extension at ground and first floor levels, elevational changes, removal of existing roof, the construction of a first floor, construction of a flat roof (c) the construction of a treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services, all on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of proposed works, 208.08sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181299

• 28 Aug 2018Refused

  for renovation of existing house, construction of new addition, proprietary waste treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works, 117sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained, 28sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181217

• 19 Oct 2017N/a

  for the construction of a new addition to existing house, a proprietary waste treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 178sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 28sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171512

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA094-002 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  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.

• GA094-003001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  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.

• GA094-003002 Moated site
  Description

  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.

• GA094-003003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the NW corner of a moated site (GA094-003002-), within the grounds of Ardfry House (GA094-004---). This natural spring well (D 2.5m) is enclosed by subrectangular drystone wall (3m N–S; 2.2m E–W), which is just one course high. The well is straight sided and lined with drystone walling. According to Holt (1912, 237), it 'occupies a small bastion-like expansion of the scarp'. A tower house (GA094-003001-) was built on the W scarp of the motte, a few meters to the SE of the holy well. When visited it was obscured with the growth of ivy and ferns, and was covered over with wooden planks. A number of burials were found in its vicinity – see GA094-003004-. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2022

• GA094-004 Country house
  Description

  This is described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (Reg. No. 30409429) as follows: 'Roofless remains of detached two-storey over basement double-pile country house, built c.1780, renovated c.1820, now roofless. Comprising central block having nine bays to front and six bays to rear, having two-bay two-storey towers of c.1820 terminating each end, projecting slightly to front of front pile and having two-bay two-storey bows to front elevations. Further single-bay three-storey block to north-east re-entrant corner. Towers have crenellated parapets with quatrefoils to centre, and decorative carved stone pinnacles to corners. Rendered chimneystacks. Rendered rubble limestone walls with limestone render string course to eaves and moulded render eaves and sill courses to towers. Square-headed chamfered window openings with stone sills. Label-mouldings to windows of four westmost bays of rear elevation, and moulded quatrefoil opening above front entrance. No frames survive. Upper windows to north elevation have moulded heads and upper jambs of medieval limestone work, that to tower having decorative vegetal detailing. Pointed arch door opening with carved limestone doorcase and flaning clustered columns, with ogee detail above having decorative pinnacle, and with moulded lintel to doorway proper. Remains of courtyard to rear, with pseudo-three-centred arched carriage opening with cut-stone voussoirs to north wall. Set outside Oranmore village on a peninsula jutting into Galway Bay.' Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 29 June 2016

• GA094-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of a ridge in grassland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 119, no. 29) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 51m) defined by an earthen bank and external fosse with an entrance gap (Wth c. 1.5m) at E. Possible stone-facing was visible on the inner face of the bank. According to local information (Topgr. Files, NUIG), the monument was bulldozed c. 1955. No visible surface trace survives but its outline is clearly visible on aerial photographs (https://binged.it/2dIUTms, last accessed 12 October 2016). (Holt 1912, 224) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 October 2016

• GA094-006 Midden
  Description

  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.

• GA094-114 Midden
  Description

  At the W end of the low-lying Ardfry peninsula in Galway Bay. An extensive 0.15m thick deposit, mainly of oyster shell with some periwinkle, is revealed in section along N shore of the peninsula and is treaceable for c. 800m at an average depth of c. 0.25m below present ground surface. Some shell is also visible to the W and SE of Loughaunascalia, where it has been exposed by burrowing rabbits, and along the S shoreline to the S of the folly (GA094-002----). The extent of the deposit suggests that the entire W end of this peninsula was once carpeted with shell. (Holt 1912, 250) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 March 2017

Architectural heritage

• Ardfry House, farmyard complex, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ruinous remains of farmyard, built c.1780, having two-storey outbuildings forming range to north, with range to east end of this running southwards, range to south end of this projecting eastwards. Detached outbuilding to south range of yard. Detached outbuilding to east of yard abutting remains of walled garden. Gables remaining of pitched roofs, hipped corrugated-iron roof to centre range. Rubble limestone walls throughout. Square-headed window openings having stone lintels and sills. Camber-headed carriage arch to outbuilding to north-east and to north elevation of south-east range. Remaining wall of walled garden has remains of elliptical-arched carriage arch with cut-stone voussoirs.

• Ardfry House, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Roofless remains of detached two-storey over basement double-pile country house, built c.1780, renovated c.1820, now roofless. Comprising central block having nine bays to front and six bays to rear, having two-bay two-storey towers of c.1820 terminating each end, projecting slightly to front of front pile and having two-bay two-storey bows to front elevations. Further single-bay three-storey block to north-east re-entrant corner. Towers have crenellated parapets with quatrefoils to centre, and decorative carved stone pinnacles to corners. Rendered chimneystacks. Rendered rubble limestone walls with limestone render string course to eaves and moulded render eaves and sill courses to towers. Square-headed chamfered window openings with stone sills. Label-mouldings to windows of four westmost bays of rear elevation, and moulded quatrefoil opening above front entrance. No frames survive. Upper windows to north elevation have moulded heads and upper jambs of medieval limestone work, that to tower having decorative vegetal detailing. Pointed arch door opening with carved limestone doorcase and flaning clustered columns, with ogee detail above having decorative pinnacle, and with moulded lintel to doorway proper. Remains of courtyard to rear, with pseudo-three-centred arched carriage opening with cut-stone voussoirs to north wall. Set outside Oranmore village on a peninsula jutting into Galway Bay.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_531 (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.

No address of the register names Ardfry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ardfry · Aird Fhraoigh

Area

719,542 m² (71.95 ha, 177.8 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynacourty, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ballynacourty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynacourty electoral division: 1,233 people in 428 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Marshallspark, Treanlaur

Placenames

Ardfry 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.