Ardbolies
Townland in the civil parish of Rathdrumin, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish An Ardbhuailidh
- Area
- 80.1 ha
- 198 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 20,137 m² (2.01 ha, 4.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardbolies, from 374 m² to 132,682 m² (13.27 ha, 32.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardbolies 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Sept 2021Conditional
Permission for proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 06/04/2022*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211088
15 Mar 2021N/a
Retention permission for changes to sessional pre-school operations (previously granted permission under Ref. 97/496) as follows: 1. Operating days revised from 4 days to 5 days (Mon - Fri); 2. Operating times revised from 09:00 - 13:00 to 08:30 - 17:30; 3. Number of children revised from 14 to 16 attending at any one time daily
Retention · Louth County Council, 21276
14 Oct 2020N/a
Retention permission for development that will consist of change to sessional preschool operating days, hours, age of children and number of children as follows: operating days from 4days to 5 days. Operating hours from 09.00-13.00 to 8.30-17.30 Mon-Fri. Age of Children from not exceeding 5 years to 6 years ( school going) Number of children from 14 to 16 at any one time (approved by Tulsa)
Retention · Louth County Council, 20827
19 Jun 2020Refused
Permission for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20426
27 Sept 2018Conditional
Permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18778
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardbolies.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardbolies.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardbolies.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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 Ardbolies.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardbolies with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Ardbolies · An Ardbhuailidh
- Area
- 800,987 m² (80.1 ha, 197.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathdrumin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Clogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clogher electoral division: 3,446 people in 1,141 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumgooter, Killally, Milltown, Parsonstown, Reynoldstown, Walshestown
- Placenames
- Ardbolies 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.