Ardanragh

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardanragh, from 249 m² to 277,547 m² (27.75 ha, 68.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new field access gate & associated works including hardcore access track & required drainage provision

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2383

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  of PL 17/89 - proposed construction of dormer type dwelling, detached garage, proposed entrance and boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2291

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  to restore and refurbish an existing two storey farmhouse, to construct a two storey extension (112sq.m) to the rear (north-west corner) of same, to install a proprietary sewage treatment system, to connect to existing services and to carry out necessary ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21333

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  to extend our existing dwelling house at the side to include a kitchen with dining area and to demolish chimney and construct a new chimney and to install a treatment system with percolation area and to close existing entrance and to construct a new entrance with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21135

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  construction of a two-storey type detached dwelling, proprietary treatment system, percolation area, connection to watermain and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20190

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  proposed construction of dormer type dwelling, detached garage, proposed entrance and boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1789

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 Ardanragh.

Recorded monuments

• LF023-073 Moated site
  Description

  On wet, low-lying ground in pasture. A raised almost square area (c. 24m NW-SE; c. 23m NE-SW), with rounded corners, enclosed by a partially denuded, wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6m; H 0.35m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 0.3m). The bank is truncated along the SE side by a NE-SW hedgerow. The fosse has been largely infilled along the SW, NW and NE sides. The original entrance is not recognisable. Ardanragh castle (LF024-005----) is located c. 700m to the ESE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 May 2012

• LF024-005 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a low rise in otherwise level pasture, immediately to the SW of a 19th-century farmhouse. A land grant to John Farrell in 1620, under the commission for the Plantation of Longford, included ‘The lordship, castle, town and lands of Ardenragh’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 466). The castle is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26) and is shown as a large castellated structure, within a cluster of smaller buildings, on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of the barony (NLI, MS 719). The 1641 depositions record that ‘Bryan fferrall of Ardanragh’ was standing ‘on the battlements of the Castle of Ardanragh about ffebruary last was a yeare watching the Cattle belonging to himselfe and his Nephew for feare of the Toryes’ (TCD, MS 817, fol. 242r). A report in 1977 (SMR file) noted that no was no visible surface trace of the castle. Part of it may have been incorporated into the farmhouse but there was no indication of this to be seen on ground or in the appearance of the house. In February 2021, photographs posted on Facebook by the owner of the house at Ardanragh, Co. Longford, included an old postcard of the castle dated 1881 and photographs of punch-dressed cut stone lying around the place. The post on facebook stated that 'Some of the decorative stones from the historic Ardandragh Castle, demolished in 1906 when some of the stepping stones around the rooftop became loose. This house built in 1814 as an addition to the castle (front view ) is standing and is known as “Castle Farm“ on the old OS maps. The photograph of the castle shows that it was the remains of a tower house standing on the SW end of Ardanragh House. See attached photographs of cut stone from levelled castle and old B/W photograph of the castle provided courtesy of Kieran Campbell Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Kieran Campbell Date of revised upload: 3 June 2022

Architectural heritage

• Castle Farm, house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan , built c. 1810, having two-storey return to the rear (northwest). Possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house/castle (LF024-005----) on the site. Pitched natural slate roof with raised verges to the gable ends, stone eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Render failing in places exposing rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and diminishing six-over-six timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed door opening with rendered block-and-start surround, spoked fanlight and timber panelled door with inset panels. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Legan. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to northeast having pitched natural slate roofs, random rubble limestone walls and round-headed openings with brick voussoirs. Gateway to the northeast of house.

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 Ardanragh.

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 Ardanragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Ardanragh · Ard Anraidh

Area

2,218,546 m² (221.85 ha, 548.21 acres)

Civil parish

Agharra, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Agharra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Agharra electoral division: 480 people in 173 households; 85% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agharra, Castlewilder, Foxhall, Furze, Kinard, Legan, Lissawarriff, Smithfield, Vicarstown

Placenames

Ardanragh 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.