Ardcullen
Ardcullen is a townland in the civil parish of Rattoo, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Ard Cuilinn.
- Area
- 80.7 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 4,260 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcullen, from 136 m² to 182,175 m² (18.22 ha, 45.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ardcullen 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
24 Apr 2023Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A BUNGALOW STYLE DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS TO BE SERVED WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND/GRAVEL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLRY SITE WORKS AND (B) FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23447
27 Jan 2023Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF A MACHINERY STORE AND PUMP HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE AND BULL HOUSE EXTENSION COMPLETE WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK IN THE SLATTED HOUSE, AS WELL AS AN EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING SLATTED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AT THE OPPOSITE END TO PROVIDE AN EXTERNAL AGITATION POINT AT THIS END, COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2373
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cashen River Estuary 001340
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardcullen.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1870. Pitched thatched roof, patched in various stages, with rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with render quoin strips. Timber one-over-one sliding sash windows with render surrounds and painted sills. Timber glazed door. Wrought-iron gate to front. Detached three-bay single-storey barrel-roofed outbuilding, built c. 1870, to north with corrugated-iron roof. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1920, to north-west with corrugated-iron roof. Detached three-bay double-height barrel-roofed outbuilding, built c. 1940, to north-west with three-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bay to north and corrugated-iron roof.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ardcullen, 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_142 (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 Ardcullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ardcullen · Ard Cuilinn
- Area
- 807,198 m² (80.72 ha, 199.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rattoo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Ballyduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 846 people lived in 333 households in the Ballyduff electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcullen-Marshes, Ayle, Derryco, Knoppoge North, Leagh
- Placenames
- Ardcullen 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.