Ardgoulbeg

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardgoulbeg, from 4,371 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres) to 633,580 m² (63.36 ha, 156.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ardgoulbeg 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.

• 11 Apr 2024Refused

  the development that will consist of: A 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of 63.4 hectares consisting of the following: 301,000 sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 10 hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks; underground power and communications cables and ducts; a new access from the L1219 public road; access gates; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; security gates; boundary fencing and all associated ancillary development, site works and services. Installations of internal network cable to facilitate a future under-the fence connection from an on-site transformer compound to the existing Rathkeale 110kV substation which is located adjacent to the site. The on-site transformer compound will enclose an Independent Power Producer Building of 30.8 sqm, a 110 kV transformer, an 18 m high lightning monopole mast, and associated ancillary development. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460320

• 24 Nov 2021Conditional

  the development that will consist of a single storey extension to the existing substation control building on its existing northern elevation, of approximately 4.1m in height. The area of new gross floor space created by the development will be 27.8m2. The proposed extension will include the provision of a new entrance on its eastern elevation with ramped and stepped access. The proposed development includes all associated and ancillary site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211625

• 1 Apr 2020Conditional

  Extension of permission for planning reference 15/592

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 207010

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  (1) a 34 sq.m single-storey extension to the existing control building; (2) installation of a two 15m high lightning monopoles; (3) relocation of existing 2.6m high palisade fence; and (4) ancillary site clearance and development works including provision of underground services and cables

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191222

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 Ardgoulbeg.

Recorded monuments

• LI020-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop limestone crag, on break in W-facing slope. Circular area (27.7m N-S; 26.7m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.55m). A dry-stone wall (H 0.9m; Wth 0.65m) runs along top of bank SE->WNW; this is part of surrounding field boundary system. A low limestone ridge extends from external bank face at N for c. 14m before fading out. Bank is low and indistinct N->SE. Interior is under pasture but covered by mature beech trees along fringes; it slopes down to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on gentle NW-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ardgoulbeg.

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 Ardgoulbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ardgoulbeg · Ard Ghabhla Bheag

Area

698,846 m² (69.88 ha, 172.69 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Riddlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Riddlestown electoral division: 601 people in 200 households; 94% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgoul South, Ardlaman, Cloghatrida, Curraghnadeely, Kilcool, Scart, Stoneville

Placenames

Ardgoulbeg 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.