Arddrine
Arddrine is a townland in the civil parish of Grange, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Ard Draighin.
- Area
- 133.6 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 6,459 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arddrine, from 234 m² to 360,423 m² (36.04 ha, 89.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Arddrine 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
27 Aug 2026N/a
erection of New Entrance Gates and Piers at the location of her existing entrance with connections to all existing services & associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660991
17 May 2019Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling house, garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19490
29 Aug 2017Conditional
the installation of a wastewater treatment system and puraflo modulated and decommissioning the existing septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17810
20 Apr 2017N/a
steeltech/log cabin at rear of dwelling house, for preschool building
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17347
10 Feb 2017Refused
to construct a single storey house, front entrance gates and wall, secondary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17114
6 Feb 2017Conditional
the demolition of a meal store and the construction of a meal store, a loose pen and an outside slatted tank extension agitator point and retention permission for a loose house conversion to a beef slatted house
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1794
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 Arddrine.
Recorded monuments
- LI036-087 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. According to local information site consisted of a slightly raised circular area enclosed by a fosse. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-088 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Some irregular undulations were noted in vicinity of site but none seemed to form a recognisable archaeological feature. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-090 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In pasture, on a S-facing slope. A circular earthen mound (H 0.7m; 7.6m N-S; 8.2m E-W) surrounded by a level berm (Wth. 4.35m), with an external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 3.2m). A field drain runs radially out from the base of the mound at E and another field drain crosses the line of the fosse at NW. There is no evident trace of the fosse E->NW. An ESB pole stands at the base of the mound at NNW. A large tank sits in the fosse at NNW. The entire site is under rough pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c. 1780, with later windbreak porch to front (south) and lean-to extension to side (east). Hipped thatch roof with red brick chimneystack and gabble to side (east). Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth band. Square-headed window openings with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening within windbreak having timber panelled door. Rubble stone outbuildings with pitched corrugated-iron roof and square-headed door openings with corrugated door. Located within own grounds having rendered boundary wall with square-profile gate piers flanking wrought-iron gates to front of site.
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 Arddrine, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_491 (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 Arddrine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Arddrine · Ard Draighin
- Area
- 1,335,843 m² (133.58 ha, 330.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Grange, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Knockaderry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 541 people lived in 176 households in the Knockaderry electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakill Beg, Dromin, Grange Upper, Killaready, Lissaniska West, Moveedy
- Placenames
- Arddrine 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.