# Ardagh, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 798,419 m² (79.84 ha, 197.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,972 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilcummin.md - Barony: Magunihy - Electoral division: Kilcummin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,348 people lived in 773 households in the Kilcummin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23432 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70060 - Centre: latitude 52.113777, longitude -9.533637 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardagh, from 297 m² to 215,275 m² (21.53 ha, 53.2 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1208990: 215,275 m² (21.53 ha, 53.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208990.md - Parcel 1197401: 178,101 m² (17.81 ha, 44.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197401.md - Parcel 4942494: 175,197 m² (17.52 ha, 43.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4942494.md - Parcel 1223454: 160,332 m² (16.03 ha, 39.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223454.md - Parcel 1210019: 31,661 m² (3.17 ha, 7.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210019.md - Parcel 1210298: 6,254 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210298.md - Parcel 1147229: 5,112 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1147229.md - Parcel 3930375: 2,902 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3930375.md - Parcel 5065688: 2,067 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5065688.md - Parcel 1166679: 1,877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1166679.md - Parcel 1239767: 1,726 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239767.md - Parcel 4942490: 1,472 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4942490.md - Parcel 1202784: 1,143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202784.md - Parcel 1247215: 1,026 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1247215.md - Parcel 1247058: 986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1247058.md - Parcel 1223936: 693 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223936.md - Parcel 1193191: 540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193191.md - Parcel 1239934: 297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239934.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ardagh 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) 1 application, newest first. - 19 Jan 2026, Kerry County Council 2660028: Conditional. Permission. Planning Permission to (a) construct an extension to the side and rear of an existing dwelling, (b) decommission the existing septic tank system and install a new wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, (c) construct a new shed and (d) all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660028/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC, site code 000343, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000343 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE058-041: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE058-041----. In pasture, on the summit of a low hill, overlooking the valley of the Glanooragh River to the S. The rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). A roughly circular level area (c. 42m N-S) is evident defined by a slight trace of a bank NW-NE and by a natural fall of ground along the S arc. Another rath (KE058-062----) lies c. 150m to the SSE. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011 - KE058-062: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE058-062----. In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A raised circular area (c. 28m N-S) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner earth and stone bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.15m) is evident all round. The intervening U-shaped fosse is covered with overgrowth and stones are dumped along it at irregular intervals. The outer bank (ext. H 1.35m) is best preserved SW-SE with only a slight trace visible SE-SW. The raised interior, which slopes down to the SE, is concave and uneven. There is a possible entrance in the inner and outer banks at SE and a cattle gap in the inner bank at ENE. There are also breaks in the outer bank at NW, NNW and WSW and cattle gaps at NE and ENE. Another rath (KE058-041----) lies c. 150m to the NNW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011 - KE058-123: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE058-123----. In pasture, on a low hillock, to the rear of a farmyard. The overgrown remains of a rectangular structure (int. 17m E-W; 3.6m N-S; wall T 0.53m), known as Browne's Castle. It consists of the E and W gables, each with a short return of its N and S walls. The E gable (H c. 3m) has a central fireplace. Two inserted concrete walls (max. L 3.45m) project to the W from the internal face of the E gable. The W gable (H c. 5m) is incorporated into the NE corner of a one-storey vernacular house. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011 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 Ardagh. ## 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 Ardagh, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_182, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_182.zip (ZIP). - 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/kerry/ardagh-70060.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardagh-70060.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ardagh-70060.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydeenlea: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballydeenlea.md - Cloonydonigan Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cloonydonigan-lower.md - Doonryan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doonryan.md - Dromdoohig More: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromdoohig-more.md - Gortnatona: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortnatona.md - Killeen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/killeen-71796.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/kerry/ardagh-70060 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/ardagh-70060