Ardvarna

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardvarna, from 274 m² to 5,586 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 May 2026Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660786

• 30 Jun 2025Conditional

  for change of house design of previously permitted development at the site (pl. ref. 17/1880 & extension of duration pl. ref. 23/166) which consisted of the construction of 2 dwelling houses with domestic garages, installation of wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all ancillary site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 660.00 sqm(H), 100 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560862

• 27 Apr 2023Unconditional

  to construct two no. dwellinghouses with all ancillary services including wastewater treatment plants and new entrance road (gross floor space 522sqm)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 23166

• 22 Apr 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a detached domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360410

• 20 Feb 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 362 sq m. (302 sqm Dwelling & 60 sqm Garage)

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360149

• 6 Mar 2020Conditional

  for dwelling house and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20286

• 4 Jan 2019Conditional

  for the following (a) extensions and alterations to Carrowntober House Bed & Breakfast premises including first floor extension, consisting of five additional guest bedrooms, lounge and reception area with ancillary car parking, (b) the conversion of existing garage/shed building to food preparation and laundry building, (c) to upgrade the existing private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works - extension to house - 254.3 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 199

• 5 Dec 2018Unconditional

  for a change of house design, construction of a domestic garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated services as previously granted under Planning Ref. 14/14. Gross floor space of proposed works: (House) 75.49 sqm, (Garage) 60 sqm. Previous Planning Ref. 18/946

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 181742

• 5 Jul 2018Conditional

  for a change of house design, construction of a domestic garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated services as previously granted under Planning Ref. 14/14. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 75.49 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18946

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct two no. dwellinghouses with all ancillary services including wastewater treatment plants and new entrance road (gross floor space 522sqm)

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 171880

• 15 Dec 2017Conditional

  for dwelling house, car port, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 182.4sqm, Garage 40sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171806

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  for dwelling house, separate domestic garage, septic tank/effluent treatment system and percolation area/polishing filter and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling 174.75 sqm, Garage 46.97 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17544

• 2 Mar 2017N/a

  to construct two no. dwellings, each with Septic Tanks, treatment plants and a detached garages with new site entrance, access road with footpaths and all ancillary services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 522 sqm.)

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 17287

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardvarna.

Recorded monuments

• GA054-001 Standing stone
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pastureland. This standing stone (H 1.93m) consists of an irregular limestone slab that is leaning slightly southwards. The base (Wth 0.35m) is subrectangular in plan and the slab tapers towards the top (Wth 0.23m) where it sub-triangular in plan. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 November 2017

Architectural heritage

• Ardvarna House, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with box-bay window to south elevation, and recent extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with eaves course and having rendered chimneystacks to middle of roof. Pitched slate roof to box-bay window. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows having limestone sills and block-and-start surrounds. Red-brick surround to first floor opening of south gable. Round-headed door opening to front with moulded render surround and carved timber doorcase comprising fluted pilasters, carved panelled door, geometrically glazed sidelights, elaborate cobweb fanlight, with flight of cut limestone steps. House set in mature grounds

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

At the centre of the townland of Ardvarna, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_331 (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.

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

Name

Ardvarna · Ardbhearna

Area

76,819 m² (7.68 ha, 18.98 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

Billymore or Carrowntober, Cregg, Lemonfield

Placenames

Ardvarna 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.