Ardellis Lower

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardellis Lower, from 132 m² to 221,918 m² (22.19 ha, 54.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ardellis Lower 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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new agricultural entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2561202

• 14 Jun 2022Refused

  a new bungalow dwelling, domestic use storage shed, proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site services

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 22731

• 26 May 2022N/a

  a new bungalow dwelling, domestic use storage shed, proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22631

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 Ardellis Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KD031-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In improved level pasture. Shown on the OS 25-inch map as a circular area (est. int. diam. c. 26m) enclosed by a bank. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 01 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardellis Lower.

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 Ardellis Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Ardellis Lower

Area

662,340 m² (66.23 ha, 163.67 acres)

Civil parish

Fontstown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Fontstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fontstown electoral division: 456 people in 144 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardellis Upper, Boley Little, Derrynine, Fontstown Lower, Loughabor, Rathconnell, Youngstown

Placenames

Ardellis Lower 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.