Ardrass

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardrass, from 1,237 m² to 79,306 m² (7.93 ha, 19.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardrass 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 May 2026Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and for all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660373

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 Ardrass.

Recorded monuments

• MA040-085 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture, 35m from the SE end of Ballymore Lough. This enclosure is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small, circular embanked enclosure (diam. c.15m). A vernacular house/farmstead is indicated c. 30m to NW. The enclosure is not shown on the 1922 edition. No visible trace. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 June 2020

• MA040-086 Crannog
  Description

  In Ballymore Lough. A large irregular- or suboval-shaped island (60m NE−SW; c. 30m NW−SE) is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps in the narrow SW end of Ballymore Lough. This end of the lake has largely dried out to an area of boggy ground, colonised by bog myrtle, grasses and sedges, scrub willows and gorse. The outline of the island cannot be discerned. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ardrass, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ardrass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ardrass · Ardros

Area

949,547 m² (94.95 ha, 234.64 acres)

Civil parish

Attymass, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Attymass East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

378 people lived in 148 households in the Attymass East electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycong, Carrick, Kildermot, Kilgellia, Mullaghawny, Treanoughter

Placenames

Ardrass 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.