Ardagh

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardagh, from 647 m² to 181,585 m² (18.16 ha, 44.87 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardagh 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 Apr 2026Refused

  Retention and Permission: Permission for the construction of 2 no. agricultural storage units onto two existing agricultural storage unit and all associated site works and retention permission for a weighbridge, weighbridge office, plant room, toilet, earthworks, a septic tank and percolation area

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660167

• 3 Apr 2025Refused

  Permission for the construction of 2 agriculture storage units onto two existing agricultural storage units and for associated siteworks, and the retention permission consists of the retention of a weighbridge, a weighbridge office, a plant room, toilet, earthworks, a septic tank and percolation area.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560193

• 15 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission for side/front extension to existing dwelling including front porch, alterations to existing dwelling, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, decommission existing septic tank, new site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460202

• 31 Aug 2023N/a

  EirGrid PLC, with the consent and approval of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), intends to apply to Meath County Council for permission for works associated with the proposed uprate of the existing Louth – Woodland 220 kV overhead powerline (OHL) between the existing Louth 220 kV substation in the townland of Monavallet, County Louth and the existing Woodland 220 kV substation in the townland of Woodland, County Meath. The Louth – Woodland 220 kV OHL is approximately 61.5 km long and comprises 207 no. steel lattice tower structures. The existing circuit is located within the functional area of Louth County Council and Meath County Council. Approximately 38.5 km of the existing OHL circuit is located within the functional area of Meath County Council and approximately 23 km is within the functional area of Louth County Council. A separate planning application is being lodged with Louth County Council. The Proposed Development within the functional area of Meath County Council is located in the townlands of Cardrath, Broomfield, Balrenny, Higginstown (Slane Electoral Division), Coalpits, Mooretown (Slane Electoral Division), Cashel, Crewbane, Rossnaree, Fennor (Painestown Electoral Division), Newtown (Painestown Electoral Division), Rathdrinagh, Thurstianstown, Painestown (Painestown Electoral Division), Knockharley, Weldonstown, Kentstown, Danestown, Proudstown (Skreen Electoral Division), Macetown (Skreen Electoral Division), Painestown (Macetown Electoral Division), Frankstown, Riggins (Kilbrew Electoral Division), Reask (Kilbrew Electoral Division), Cabinhill, Flemingtown (Ratoath Electoral Division), Twentypark, Lagore Little, Brownstown (Ratoath Electoral Division), Bradystown, Curkeen, Commons (Ratoath Electoral Division), Gormastown, Wilkinstown (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), Powderlough, Raynestown, Derrockstown, Mill Land (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), Parsonstown, Rathregan, Portan (Dunshaughlin Electoral Division), and Woodland. The Proposed Development works within the functional area of County Meath will comprise: ? the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing overhead line circuit conductor with a new higher capacity conductor; ? the strengthening of up to 25 no. tower foundations; ? the replacement of hardware and fittings, such as insulators, insulator hardware, earthwire hardware, anti-climbing guards and bird warning spheres at various9 no. locations;; ? the replacement of suspension clamps and vibration dampers

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360249

• 8 Nov 2021Conditional

  permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, sand polishing filtration on an integration filter and for associated site works **Significant further information received on 10.8.22**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211347

• 23 Aug 2021N/a

  Retention permission and permission for development that consist of an agricultural storage unit onto two existing agricultural storage units and for associated site works and the retention permission for consist of the retention of a weighbridge, a weighbridge office 2 portacabin general offices, a plant room, toilet, septic tank and percolation area

  Retention · Louth County Council, 211049

• 12 Nov 2020Refused

  Permission for the construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, a waste water treatment system, sand polishing filtration on an integration filter and for associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20951

• 5 Oct 2020N/a

  Retention & Permission: Permission for the construction of an agricultural storage unit onto two existing agricultural storage units and for associated site works; and the retention permission consists of the retention of a weighbridge and a weighbridge office

  Retention · Louth County Council, 20787

• 31 Aug 2020N/a

  Permission for development to consist of the construction of an agricultural storage unit onto two existing agricultural storage units and for associated siteworks, and the retention permission consists of the retention of a weighbridge and a weighbridge office

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20665

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  Permission for the development that will consist of the construction of a single dwellinghouse, a water waste treatment system, soil filtration area and for associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20369

• 6 Apr 2020Refused

  Permission for the construction of extensions to 2 no. agricultural storage units, for the construction of 6 no. agricultural storage units and for associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20256

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 Ardagh.

Recorded monuments

• LH023-011 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of the ENE-WSW ridge that is Louth Hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 8m) defined by a single continuous fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (2013). It was first identified by Faith Bailey. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 24 July, 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardagh.

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 Ardagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Ardagh · Ardach

Area

487,195 m² (48.72 ha, 120.39 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyallen, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Monasterboice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasterboice electoral division: 1,445 people in 491 households; 93% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Mellifont, Mellifont Park or Louth Hill, Sheepgrange, Townleyhall

Placenames

Ardagh 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.