# Ards, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommock, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford; in Irish Na hArda. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,589,048 m² (158.9 ha, 392.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 57,319 m² (5.73 ha, 14.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommock, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/kilcommock.md - Barony: Moydow - Electoral division: Kilcommock, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32690 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130071 - Centre: latitude 53.646399, longitude -7.848724 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ards, from 257 m² to 262,656 m² (26.27 ha, 64.9 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 78877: 262,656 m² (26.27 ha, 64.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78877.md - Parcel 5829966: 235,518 m² (23.55 ha, 58.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5829966.md - Parcel 80925: 206,920 m² (20.69 ha, 51.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80925.md - Parcel 57815: 146,962 m² (14.7 ha, 36.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57815.md - Parcel 56213: 128,737 m² (12.87 ha, 31.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56213.md - Parcel 5311063: 102,393 m² (10.24 ha, 25.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5311063.md - Parcel 78875: 86,647 m² (8.66 ha, 21.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78875.md - Parcel 5310853: 76,562 m² (7.66 ha, 18.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5310853.md - Parcel 5229097: 70,315 m² (7.03 ha, 17.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5229097.md - Parcel 4986327: 67,525 m² (6.75 ha, 16.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4986327.md - Parcel 55847: 57,319 m² (5.73 ha, 14.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55847.md - Parcel 5310879: 56,203 m² (5.62 ha, 13.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5310879.md - Parcel 64380: 12,108 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64380.md - Parcel 5358037: 4,723 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5358037.md - Parcel 84592: 3,046 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84592.md - Parcel 69529: 2,676 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69529.md - Parcel 69157: 2,669 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69157.md - Parcel 55477: 2,314 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55477.md - Parcel 79357: 2,150 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79357.md - Parcel 52006: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/52006.md - Parcel 61922: 257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/61922.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ards in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 17 Sept 2025, Longford County Council 2542: Conditional. Permission. to construct slurry storage facilities, concrete area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2542/0 - 26 Oct 2021, Longford County Council 21307: Conditional. Retention. of 2 No. Machinery Storage Sheds, and a Hay Storage Shed and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21307/0 - 7 Apr 2021, Longford County Council 2191: N/a. Permission. to retain and complete extension to existing hay storage shed and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2191/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal, site code 002103 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF018-057: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF018-057----. On an ENE-facing hillside in pasture. A raised oval area (37.2m WNW–ESE; 31.4m NNE–SSW) enclosed by a low narrow bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; H 1m) with a shallow internal fosse (Wth 2.9-3.8m; D 0.3m). A narrow shallow external fosse is probably a modern drainage feature. From WNW–N–E the bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary and there is no visible trace of the outer fosse. The original entrance is not recognisable. The monument is densely overgrown with vegetation. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 Novmeber 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ards Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13401817, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401817. Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Rendered finish (now failing) over rubble stone construction with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Rendered finish over rubble stone construction to parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to west bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (east and west). Rubble stone wing walls to ends of parapets. Located to the southwest of Killashee. - 42nd Lock, lock, 1810–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13401818, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401818. Canal lock associated with Royal Canal, built c. 1815, consisting of pair of (restored) timber and steel breast gates with timber footboards and balance beams. Set within ashlar limestone lock chamber with ashlar limestone capstones having bevelled edges. Associated lock keeper's house (13401819) to the west. Located to the southwest of Killashee. Canal now dry. - 42nd Lock, lock keeper's house, 1810–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13401819, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401819. Detached three-bay single-storey lock keeper's house, built 1815, with single-storey lean-to extension to north and central projecting porch to main elevation (east). Now in use as a private house. Hipped artificial slate roof with central rendered chimneystack and cut stone eaves course. Roughcast rendered finish over roughly dressed squared limestone rubble walls. Square-headed window openings, set in recessed segmental-headed arches, with cut stone sills and having timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to projecting porch. Located adjacent to lock 42 (13401818) and to the north of Ards Bridge (13401817). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ards, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ards. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/ards.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/ards.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/ards.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ards with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinamore: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinamore.md - Derryart: https://everytownland.com/longford/derryart.md - Derryoghil: https://everytownland.com/longford/derryoghil.md - Kilmakinlan: https://everytownland.com/longford/kilmakinlan.md - Knockatarry (Poynton): https://everytownland.com/longford/knockatarry-poynton.md - Knockavegan: https://everytownland.com/longford/knockavegan.md - Lyneen: https://everytownland.com/longford/lyneen.md - Meelick: https://everytownland.com/longford/meelick.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/ards - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/ards