Ardacarha

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardacarha, from 670 m² to 104,801 m² (10.48 ha, 25.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ardacarha 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.

• 12 Dec 2022Conditional

  construction of a serviced 1 storey dwellinghouse and groundworks for a shed, alongside ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221104

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 Ardacarha.

Recorded monuments

• MA071-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a rise. There is a stream 150m to E. Raised earthen platform (c. 33m NE−SW; c. 36m NW-SE), originally circular but now irregular in plan, defined by a high, vertically-cut scarp (1.8-2m). The N arc retains much of the original curve of the enclosure. A C-shaped area (diam. c. 10m) has been quarried out of the platform at E−SE; this is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The S−SW arc of the circuit has also been damaged, and the W edge is truncated by a road flanked by field fences. The rath interior is level and featureless; the perimeter is ringed with ash trees, hawthorn, blackthorn and brambles. A barn and a smaller shed stand immediately to NW of the rath; other farm buildings and a farm yard are ranged around the rath on the NE-SE side. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 June 2021

• MA071-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, utilising the contours of a natural rise, with excellent views over the surrounding undulating terrain, with flat expanses of lowlying ground to SW and NE. There is a stream 50m to W. This rath is indicated as a circular enclosure on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. The remains consist of a broadly oval earthen platform (38m E−W; c. 34m N−S) defined on the S half by a high, well defined scarp (H 3m at S, 2m at NW & E) with a broad external slump, incorporating large stones in parts; the scarp has been levelled on the N half so that it merges almost seamlessly with the natural slope. An original entrance may have been at the NE, where the scarp has a gently ramped slope. The interior is level and featureless, with a single hawthorn tree, with a large boulder at its base, roughly in the centre. There is a souterrain (MA071-008001-) in the rath, with an access opening in the external face of the scarp at WNW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 June 2021

• MA071-008001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA071-008). This souterrain is indicated as ‘Cave’on the W edge of the rath on the 1838 and 1931 OS 6-inch maps. The souterrain is exposed in a semicircular quarried out section (4m by 4m) of the rath scarp at WNW. An opening (H 1.3m) in the vertical face of the quarried area at a depth of 0.55−0.6m below interior ground surface reveals a drystone chamber (Wth c. 2m N−S). The walls are constructed of large, rough irregular stones and are corbelled to support large stone roof lintels. The floor of the chamber appears to slope down from W to E. The chamber is largely concealed by a thicket of brambles and difficult to examine. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 June 2021

• MA071-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on an elevation overlooking a stream 50m to E. There is rising ground to SE. Oval earthen platform (61.5m NE−SW; 47.5m NW−SE) defined by a high scarp (H 3.5m at NNE and SE, 1.5m at W; Wth slope 3.5m at SE and NNE, 2m at W). The scarp is cut to the vertical, probably a relatively recent modification. Stones protrude from the scarp in a parts. Remnants of a low NNE−SSW fence/wall (Wth 1m) of earth and stone crosses the top of the scarp at W. There is a slight slump (Wth c. 2m) in the scarp at ENE, now eroded by cattle and another low area (Wth 2.6m) in the scarp at W, but is unclear if either represents and original entrance. The interior slopes down gently from the NW quadrant to W and more markedly to S and SE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 June 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Ardacarha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ardacarha · Ard an Chartha

Area

1,222,702 m² (122.27 ha, 302.14 acres)

Civil parish

Bohola, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Bohola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bohola electoral division: 325 people in 127 households; 81% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barleyhill, Bohola, Carrowcastle, Carrowgallda, Gorteen, Oughtagh

Placenames

Ardacarha 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.