Ardee
Townland in the civil parish of Ardee, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Átha Fhirdhia
- Area
- 32.7 ha
- 81 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 683 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardee, from 207 m² to 98,134 m² (9.81 ha, 24.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Sept 2026N/a
Retention and Permission: (a) retention of the removal of partition walls and alterations to the internal layout & (b) Permission to alter the internal layout (c) all associated development works to facilitate the development
Retention · Louth County Council, 2660600
22 May 2026Conditional
Permission for a single storey extension to production area of existing factory (1170m2), together with all ancillary and associated site development works at existing premises. The development is within the confines of a protected structure Ref LHS017-063.
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660318
14 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission for a two storey extension to the south and west elevations of the existing factory, incorporating first floor offices and ground floor factory extension. A small single storey infill extension to the existing canteen to the south elevation, upgrading the existing south elevation with new cladding to match proposed finishes, together with all ancillary and associated site development works at our existing premises at John Street, Ardee, Co. Louth. The development is within the confines of a protected structure Ref LHS017-063.
Permission · Louth County Council, 2560141
19 Mar 2024N/a
Permission for the demolition of an existing work shop, a new portal framed industrial building incorporating two storey offices and three nr. individual units with ancillary offices and associated car parking including a waste water pump house connecting to existing Local Authority mains and all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2438
25 Feb 2022Conditional
permission for the construction of a new concrete block plant room to replace existing plant room granted under planning ref. no. 17/703 and a new gas manifold sound barrier
Permission · Louth County Council, 22148
14 Jan 2022N/a
permission for the construction of a new concrete block plant room and gas manifold sound barrier
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2223
8 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission to install approximately 75m2 of external double layer wall cladding to a portion of the east elevation of an external wall as a measure to reduce noise emissions at the factory known as Farrell Furniture
Permission · Louth County Council, 21374
24 Feb 2021Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of the provision of a 973sq/m single-storey industrial/storage unit and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21174
1 Feb 2021N/a
Permission for the provision of a 973sq. ft. single storey industrial/storage unit and all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2194
24 Jan 2018Conditional
Permission to install a 3m high 'Lamp post' style relief vent stack servicing the existing below ground natural gas pressure reduction unit with all ancillary services & associated site works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 1855
18 Sept 2017Conditional
Permission for retention of development consisting of a plant room.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17703
4 Jul 2017Conditional
Permission for the following development: - A two storey office and showroom extension to replace the existing single storey office building to the south elevation of the existing factory. - A loading bay extension to the existing factory loading bay. - A single storey extension to the existing materials storage building, together with all ancillary and associated site development works. The development is within the confines of a protected structure Ref LHS017-063.
Permission · Louth County Council, 17510
10 Feb 2017Conditional
Retention permission and permission for development consisting of retention of a water softening shed and pipe enclosures and permission for development consisting of a smoking shelter.
Retention · Louth County Council, 1785
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 Ardee.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardee.
Architectural heritage
- Workhouse, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached T-plan multiple-bay former workhouse, built c. 1850, later used as vocational school, now in commercial use. Fifteen-bay two-storey east-facing main block with engaged pedimented square towers to rear of north and south ends and three-bay single-storey breakfronts at north and south gables, central single-storey return wing to west linking main block to dormered chapel to west, extensively remodelled c. 1970. Pitched artificial slate roofs to main block and return wing, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with triple engaged shafts with bands and corbelled caps, profiled uPVC gutters on painted timber projecting eaves; shallow pitched roofs to towers on projecting eaves corbel courses; pitched slate roof to chapel, clay ridge tiles, stone verge copings to gables, corbelled at springers, simple stone cross at apex. Painted smooth rendered walling to east elevation, projecting plinth, strings and cornice; coursed rubble stone walling to west elevation main block, towers, link wing and chapel, tooled ashlar quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals to east elevation, brick dressings elsewhere, stone sills, uPVC casement windows; transomed and mullioned windows to top of towers, three pointed-arch window openings to south gable of chapel, red brick surrounds with stone keystone, uPVC casement windows. Square-headed entrance door opening to east elevation, rounded-headed door openings to base of towers, brick dressings, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors. Set in grounds of commercial premises, bitmac carparking to east, storage yard to south.
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 10 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2859 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Ardee · Baile Átha Fhirdhia
- Area
- 327,075 m² (32.71 ha, 80.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Ardee Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boharnamoe, Curraghbeg, Stonylane, Townparks
- Placenames
- Ardee 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.