# Ardacarha, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Bohola, barony of Gallen, Co. Mayo; in Irish Ard an Chartha.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,222,702 m² (122.27 ha, 302.14 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,870 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Bohola, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/bohola.md
- Barony: Gallen
- Electoral division: Bohola, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36485
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150057
- Centre: latitude 53.916776, longitude -9.076091 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardacarha, from 670 m² to 104,801 m² (10.48 ha, 25.9 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 973046: 104,801 m² (10.48 ha, 25.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/973046.md
- Parcel 972960: 60,384 m² (6.04 ha, 14.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972960.md
- Parcel 972950: 55,788 m² (5.58 ha, 13.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972950.md
- Parcel 973839: 50,993 m² (5.1 ha, 12.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/973839.md
- Parcel 972959: 50,120 m² (5.01 ha, 12.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972959.md
- Parcel 921484: 48,744 m² (4.87 ha, 12.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921484.md
- Parcel 972953: 45,038 m² (4.5 ha, 11.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972953.md
- Parcel 881048: 42,920 m² (4.29 ha, 10.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881048.md
- Parcel 977890: 42,017 m² (4.2 ha, 10.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977890.md
- Parcel 993655: 38,238 m² (3.82 ha, 9.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/993655.md
- Parcel 935008: 35,027 m² (3.5 ha, 8.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/935008.md
- Parcel 5304564: 34,932 m² (3.49 ha, 8.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5304564.md
- Parcel 972951: 34,525 m² (3.45 ha, 8.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972951.md
- Parcel 881046: 33,999 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881046.md
- Parcel 900873: 32,117 m² (3.21 ha, 7.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900873.md
- Parcel 972957: 31,301 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972957.md
- Parcel 978126: 30,214 m² (3.02 ha, 7.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/978126.md
- Parcel 972954: 28,814 m² (2.88 ha, 7.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972954.md
- Parcel 950710: 28,233 m² (2.82 ha, 6.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950710.md
- Parcel 975876: 27,708 m² (2.77 ha, 6.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/975876.md
- Parcel 997454: 27,692 m² (2.77 ha, 6.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/997454.md
- Parcel 990895: 24,911 m² (2.49 ha, 6.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990895.md
- Parcel 901592: 24,178 m² (2.42 ha, 5.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/901592.md
- Parcel 1005962: 23,951 m² (2.4 ha, 5.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005962.md
- Parcel 979555: 21,730 m² (2.17 ha, 5.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/979555.md
- Parcel 2684503: 19,806 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2684503.md
- Parcel 871213: 19,784 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/871213.md
- Parcel 936216: 18,192 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/936216.md
- Parcel 998125: 16,208 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/998125.md
- Parcel 950711: 13,711 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950711.md
- Parcel 2684501: 12,812 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2684501.md
- Parcel 881045: 10,439 m² (1.04 ha, 2.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881045.md
- Parcel 4256539: 8,780 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4256539.md
- Parcel 926312: 8,170 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/926312.md
- Parcel 890200: 7,976 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890200.md
- Parcel 4256550: 7,892 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4256550.md
- Parcel 979034: 7,848 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/979034.md
- Parcel 1006644: 4,959 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1006644.md
- Parcel 896208: 4,684 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/896208.md
- Parcel 5175187: 4,515 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5175187.md
- Parcel 979418: 4,226 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/979418.md
- Parcel 987060: 3,802 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987060.md
- Parcel 983809: 3,653 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/983809.md
- Parcel 2490524: 3,561 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2490524.md
- Parcel 923179: 3,498 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/923179.md
- Parcel 3729538: 3,364 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3729538.md
- Parcel 972952: 3,124 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972952.md
- Parcel 983562: 3,107 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/983562.md
- Parcel 952683: 2,968 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/952683.md
- Parcel 1012382: 2,913 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012382.md
- Parcel 990373: 2,898 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990373.md
- Parcel 6092444: 2,844 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6092444.md
- Parcel 999658: 2,660 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/999658.md
- Parcel 987774: 2,650 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/987774.md
- Parcel 996665: 2,487 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/996665.md
- Parcel 984502: 2,468 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984502.md
- Parcel 1000981: 2,433 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1000981.md
- Parcel 1001408: 2,332 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1001408.md
- Parcel 957945: 2,265 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/957945.md
- Parcel 1007937: 2,140 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1007937.md
- Parcel 988564: 2,097 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/988564.md
- Parcel 952685: 2,080 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/952685.md
- Parcel 934238: 2,028 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/934238.md
- Parcel 989019: 1,968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/989019.md
- Parcel 935196: 1,858 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/935196.md
- Parcel 935632: 1,680 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/935632.md
- Parcel 4256532: 1,501 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4256532.md
- Parcel 958154: 1,396 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/958154.md
- Parcel 919739: 1,092 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/919739.md
- Parcel 978715: 1,054 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/978715.md
- Parcel 925055: 1,048 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/925055.md
- Parcel 952684: 670 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/952684.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 12 Dec 2022, Mayo County Council 221104: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a serviced 1 storey dwellinghouse and groundworks for a shed, alongside ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/221104/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardacarha.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA071-007: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA071-007----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA071-008----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA071-008001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA071-016----. 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

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)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, 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/mayo/ardacarha.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ardacarha.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ardacarha.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ardacarha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Barleyhill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/barleyhill.md
- Bohola: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bohola.md
- Carrowcastle: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowcastle-150632.md
- Carrowgallda: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowgallda.md
- Gorteen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gorteen-151859.md
- Oughtagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/oughtagh.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.

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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.

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