# Ardros, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killallaghtan, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway; in Irish Ardros. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 596,435 m² (59.64 ha, 147.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,316 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killallaghtan, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killallaghtan.md - Barony: Kilconnell - Electoral division: Aughrim, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17670 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60126 - Centre: latitude 53.315769, longitude -8.381569 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardros, from 23 m² to 249,369 m² (24.94 ha, 61.62 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2108478: 249,369 m² (24.94 ha, 61.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108478.md - Parcel 2108476: 82,962 m² (8.3 ha, 20.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108476.md - Parcel 4679104: 78,191 m² (7.82 ha, 19.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4679104.md - Parcel 2058521: 74,580 m² (7.46 ha, 18.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058521.md - Parcel 5160005: 21,376 m² (2.14 ha, 5.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160005.md - Parcel 5159854: 19,997 m² (2 ha, 4.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159854.md - Parcel 5159852: 15,826 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159852.md - Parcel 5159980: 6,909 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159980.md - Parcel 4679101: 6,651 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4679101.md - Parcel 2409089: 4,627 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2409089.md - Parcel 2108479: 4,577 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108479.md - Parcel 5159858: 4,099 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159858.md - Parcel 2108480: 3,337 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108480.md - Parcel 2108477: 3,296 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108477.md - Parcel 2058518: 2,676 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058518.md - Parcel 2058519: 2,602 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058519.md - Parcel 5159998: 2,332 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159998.md - Parcel 4641131: 2,322 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641131.md - Parcel 4680814: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4680814.md - Parcel 2108481: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108481.md - Parcel 2058520: 2,159 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058520.md - Parcel 2068639: 2,068 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2068639.md - Parcel 2955490: 1,288 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2955490.md - Parcel 4680809: 1,203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4680809.md - Parcel 5159971: 184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159971.md - Parcel 4680803: 23 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4680803.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ardros 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2026, Galway County Council 2691: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of a dwelling, septic tank and percolation area and site entrance on revised site boundaries from previously approved under plan ref. no. 51539; retention of a domestic garage with a connecting link to the existing dwelling; retention of an agricultural shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2691/0 - 5 Sept 2024, Galway County Council 24256: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 126.14 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (shed). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/24256/0 - 17 Sept 2021, Galway County Council 211716: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a two-storey dwellinghouse and domestic garage including a waste water treatment system & associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 204 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211716/0 - 29 Apr 2021, Galway County Council 21715: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a Single storey dwellinghouse and Domestic Garage with all ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 175.0 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21715/0 - 22 Jun 2020, Galway County Council 20781: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage / fuel shed to include all associate site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 174.63 msq & Garage: 53.94 msq. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20781/0 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 Ardros. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA086-002: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA086-002----. In level grassland. Aerial reconnaissance in August 1984 (ASGAP 171:18) revealed a series of cropmarks in meadowland. These comprised at least one possible field, roughly square in plan (NW-SE c. 150m), within which internal divisions were visible. Two smaller enclosures were also discernible outside it at NW and NE. Bands of nettles were also noted to S during fieldwork, possibly indicating further cropmarks. 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 Ardros. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ardros, about 1 in 20 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardros. - 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/ardros.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardros.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardros.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardros 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) - Ballinderry: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinderry-60202.md - Fahy: https://everytownland.com/galway/fahy-61971.md - Garrymore: https://everytownland.com/galway/garrymore-62130.md - Killareeny: https://everytownland.com/galway/killareeny.md - Lavagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/lavagh.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/ardros - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ardros