Ardraw

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardraw, from 1,417 m² to 182,483 m² (18.25 ha, 45.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardraw 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.

• 31 May 2022Conditional

  ERECT A 24M HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAE DISHES, HEAD-FRAME AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, ALL ENCLOSED BY SECURITY FENCING AND EXTEND EXISTING ACCESS TRACK

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22567

• 23 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22194

• 26 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND TRICEL NOVO TREATMENT UNIT C/W PURAFLO MODULES OVERLYING A SOIL POLISHING FILTER ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211357

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 Ardraw.

Recorded monuments

• KE057-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 24m N-S, 22.8m E-W This well-preserved bivallate rath is located on a low hilltop which is bounded on three sides by a meander of the Laune river. There are unrestricted views from it in all directions. This site is noted as 'Ard Rath' in the OSNB (Knockane, 30), but is called 'Ardagh Fort' on the OS Fair Plans. It consists of two earthen banks with an intervening fosse, and a short stretch of an outer fosse at NE. Traces of this external fosse are visible only on aerial photographs. The outer bank rises to a maximum external height of 1.7m. Elsewhere it averages 1.5m in external height and 8m in basal width. Slippage of both banks may account for much of their basal widths and the V-shaped cross-section of the intervening fosse. The outer bank is 3.7m high above the base of this fosse, which averages 2.1m wide. The inner bank rises 4.5m above the fosse and 1.2m above the interior of the rath. A causewayed entrance at NW gives access to the interior, the gaps in the inner and outer banks being 2.5m and 3m wide respectively. The interior of the rath is planted with trees. A stone-built souterrain (KE057-075001-) was discovered in the W half of the site's interior in 1904 when sections of its roof collapsed (Cooke 1906, 3-4). The exposed portions comprised two passages. The larger passage was aligned NE-SW, was 12 feet (3.55m) long and varied from 6 feet (1.75m) to 2 feet (.6m) wide. Its lintelled roof was 5 feet 6 inches (1.6m) below the level of the interior of the rath. The second passage, close by, was aligned roughly N-S and measured 4 feet (1.2m) long by 4 feet (1.2m) wide. The passages were described by the CKFC as 'torn up and damaged . . . the stones which formed them thrown about' (1940, 153-4). Among these was 'a horseshoe-shaped stone of a crawl doorway', which probably was a porthole slab or arch stone of the type found in the souterrains at Kimego West (KE079-016----) and Kealduff Upper (KE071-006----). No surface trace of the souterrain is now apparent. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 454. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE057-075001 Souterrain
  Description

  A stone-built souterrain (KE057-075001-) was discovered in the W half of the site's interior in 1904 when sections of its roof collapsed (Cooke 1906, 3-4). The exposed portions comprised two passages. The larger passage was aligned NE-SW, was 12 feet (3.55m) long and varied from 6 feet (1.75m) to 2 feet (.6m) wide. Its lintelled roof was 5 feet 6 inches (1.6m) below the level of the interior of the rath. The second passage, close by, was aligned roughly N-S and measured 4 feet (1.2m) long by 4 feet (1.2m) wide. The passages were described by the CKFC as 'torn up and damaged . . . the stones which formed them thrown about' (1940, 153-4). Among these was 'a horseshoe-shaped stone of a crawl doorway', which probably was a porthole slab or arch stone of the type found in the souterrains at Kimego West (KE079-016----) and Kealduff Upper (KE071-006----). No surface trace of the souterrain is now apparent. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 454. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE057-109 Children's burial ground
  Description

  This site, locally known as a cillín, is not marked on the OS maps. It occurs at the upper end of a field which slopes downhill to S and occupies a relatively level area that measures 8m N-S x 47m E-W in overall dimensions. A 3m wide earthen bank defines its W and N limits, while trees and overgrowth mark its edges elsewhere. The interior of the site has a concentration of small boulders which may have served as grave-markers; these average .3m high and are arranged in N-S rows. A number of low mounds of stone, which include some quartz, also occur in the interior. The above description is derived from O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. (compilers) 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University press. (1996), no. 977. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 18 June 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardraw.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_114 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ardraw with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ardraw · Ardráth

Area

798,454 m² (79.85 ha, 197.3 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Kilgobnet, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgobnet electoral division: 984 people in 325 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlaghas, Gortnaskarry, Meanus, Mweelcaha, Tubbrid, Whitefield

Placenames

Ardraw 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.