Ardellis Upper

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardellis Upper, from 1,418 m² to 978,985 m² (97.9 ha, 241.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardellis Upper 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.

• 29 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the construction of portal frame type agricultural farm shed and associated site works for storage of own agricultural crops

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25145

• 14 Aug 2025N/a

  for the construction of portal frame type agricultural farm shed and associated site works for storage of own agricultural crops

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 25136

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  Development will consist of the construction of internal agricultural farm roadway and all associated site works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 24228

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD031-041 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) as the cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (est. diam. c. 50m NE-SW) with a straight SW side (est. L c. 30m) enclosed by a back-filled fosse. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardellis Upper, about 1 in 10 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ardellis Upper

Area

1,160,843 m² (116.08 ha, 286.85 acres)

Civil parish

Fontstown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Fontstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 144 households in the Fontstown electoral division. 91% of households owned 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 Lower, Ballynabarna, Loughabor, Tinnakill, Youngstown

Placenames

Ardellis Upper 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.