Ardnasillagh
Ardnasillagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Aird na Saileach.
- Area
- 103.5 ha
- 256 acres
- Land parcels
- 83
- registered freehold, median 4,206 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnasillagh, from 76 m² to 83,561 m² (8.36 ha, 20.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardnasillagh 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
30 Jun 2022Conditional
for the construction of detached dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 205.65sqm (dwelling house) and 25sqm (domestic garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260668
29 Jan 2020Conditional
of the existing dwelling house and garage/shed as constructed on revised site boundaries and permission to upgrade the wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 150.35 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2096
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardnasillagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardnasillagh.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Ardnasillagh.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ardnasillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ardnasillagh · Aird na Saileach
- Area
- 1,034,649 m² (103.46 ha, 255.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Oughterard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghkeelaun, Ard, Aughnanure, Curraveha or Birchhall, Knockkillaree, Porridgetown West
- Placenames
- Ardnasillagh 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.