Ardnagross
Townland in the civil parish of Narraghmore, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare; in Irish Ard na gCros
- Area
- 52.3 ha
- 129 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 1,887 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnagross, from 180 m² to 449,999 m² (45 ha, 111.2 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardnagross 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
26 Jun 2026N/a
(A) Demolition of existing single storey extension to the Rear (north east) elevation, (B) Permission for a new single storey extension to the Rear (north east) elevation and the Side (south east) elevation and (C) insertion of a new window on the side (south east) elevation.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660703
23 Dec 2025N/a
to construct a bungalow, upgrade existing agricultural gate to a new splayed entrance and install a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all ancillary siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561492
19 Dec 2025N/a
to construct a bungalow, upgrade existing agricultural gate to a new splayed entrance and install a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all ancillary siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561465
16 Apr 2025Refused
for to construct a bungalow, new splayed entrance and install a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all ancillary siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560408
2 Aug 2024Conditional
for a single storey dwelling, single storey detached garage, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area, bored well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460753
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardnagross.
Recorded monuments
- KD031-046 Field system
Description
Cropmark of two conjoined square-shaped enclosures visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Outline of cropmark visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. It is possible that these cropmarks represent the remains of two pre-1700 fields or possibly a conjoined moated site. The E cropmark represents the remains of a square shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 35m N-S x 35m E-W). The W cropmark represents the remains of a large square shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 43m N-S x 48m E-W). The cropmark of a linear earthwork running along S side of the two enclosures may represent the remains of a field boundary of pre-1700 date. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Chris Corlett Date of upload: 27 November 2018
- KD031-051 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018 See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Hiúdaí Reid Date of upload: 05 December 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardnagross.
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
- About 1 in 10 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_2503 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardnagross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Ardnagross · Ard na gCros
- Area
- 523,477 m² (52.35 ha, 129.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Narraghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban West
- Electoral division
- Skerries, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Skerries electoral division: 717 people in 228 households; 67% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardscull, Ballynabarna, Kilmead, Rathgrumly, Youngstown
- Placenames
- Ardnagross 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.