Ardroe

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardroe, from 339 m² to 238,919 m² (23.89 ha, 59.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Ardroe 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.

• 4 Dec 2024Conditional

  a new dwelling house, a detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, vehicular entrance, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24454

• 2 Dec 2022Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221290

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 Ardroe.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-057 Moated site
  Description

  In level pasture. Rectangular area (25m NNW-SSE; 28m ENE-WSW) enclosed by earthen bank on N, E, N-half of W-side and SE corner, otherwise defined by scarped edge (Wth 5m; H 0.95m). Breach in bank (basal Wth 1m; overall Wth 2.5m) at E-end of N-side. External fosse (Wth 8.05; D 0.25m) has silted-up on S side and is choked with vegetation on N and E sides and is planted with trees on W side. Intervening bank (Wth 6.9m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.8m) at N-end of W-side is reduced to scarp at S-end. Intervening fosse (Wth 5.95m; int. D 0.25m) to W-side is obscured by overgrowth at N-end. Traces of outer bank (Wth 2.8m; L c. 14m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.75m) at N-end of W-side. Interior is grass covered and has uneven surface. Farm trackway flanks E-side of monument. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 November 2013

• LI023-270 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On undulating pasture 165m W of the townland boundary with Dromkeen and 290m S of the townland boundary with Curraghavearna. Moated site (LI023-057----) located 310m to S. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps and is not visible on OSi orthoimages. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 253; AP 4/3685) as a circular enclosure most likely a ringfort (ext. diam. c. 30m). The enclosure is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 where recent clearance of field boundaries E of the enclosure is visible. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 253 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 4 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, 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_1153 (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.

No address of the register names Ardroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ardroe · Ard Rua

Area

879,587 m² (87.96 ha, 217.35 acres)

Civil parish

Grean, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmurry electoral division: 911 people in 304 households; 96% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baskethill, Caherconreafy, Curraghaveara, Dromkeen, Dromkeen South, Longstone

Placenames

Ardroe 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.