Ardaghy Kill
Ardaghy Kill is a townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Ardachadh na Coille.
- Area
- 56.1 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 3,354 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardaghy Kill, from 1,351 m² to 5,358 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardaghy Kill 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
28 Jan 2020Conditional
(1) permission to retain and complete a change of design and all associated site works regarding the development granted under planning file number 16/290 (extension to existing dwelling). Changes relate to: single storey to two-storey extension; changes to the external finish; a new/upgraded wastewater treatment system; and elevational and roof amendments to existing bungalow; (2) permission for new single-storey, double domestic garage and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2025
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 Ardaghy Kill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardaghy Kill.
Architectural heritage
- Rossmore Castle, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey square-plan gate lodge, built c.1850, having lower gable-fronted porch to front elevation, and canted bay window to east elevation. Recently in use as Coillte offices and now vacant. Pyramidal replacement slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Exposed red brick walls of varying tones, having cut limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings throughout, with chamfered yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, cut-stone sills, and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows, guarded by recent metal railings, and bay window has two-over-two pane windows. Round-arch doorway to porch has moulded yellow brick surround with limestone plinth blocks, square-headed timber battened door with fanlight, and limestone threshold and step. Single-pane timber sliding sash window to side elevations of porch. Square-headed gauged-brick door opening on low stone plinth to north elevation, with timber battened door. Rubble limestone outbuilding to north with lean-to corrugated-metal roof. Lodge positioned at east entrance to Rossmore Castle. Associated gateway comprising cast-iron square-plan piers, double-leaf vehicular gate and railings, latter on low limestone plinth wall.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ardaghy Kill, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2334 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardaghy Kill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Ardaghy Kill · Ardachadh na Coille
- Area
- 561,490 m² (56.15 ha, 138.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 6,411 people lived in 2,320 households in the Monaghan Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cormeen, Cornamunady, Cortolvin, Kilnamaddy, Tullyard
- Placenames
- Ardaghy Kill 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.