Adruel

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Adruel, from 68,871 m² (6.89 ha, 17.02 acres) to 421,798 m² (42.18 ha, 104.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Adruel 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Adruel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Adruel.

Recorded monuments

• OF042-050 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on poorly drained marginal pasture land with good views in all directions. Slight rise of ground (H 0.1m; diam. c. 6m N-S) indicates located of spread of burnt material which was revelaed by the local landowner when ploughing the field several years ago. May be the site of a levelled fulacht fiadh. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF042-051 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on wet marshy land with good views in all directions. Burnt spread (H 0.1m; diam. c. 10m) consisting of burnt stone and dark soil was identified by local landowner when trees were being planted in this field in 2001. Possible remains of a levelled fulacht fiadh. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF042-052 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on slight rise of ground with good views in all directions. Site identified as a spread of burnt material (diam. c. 7m) when field was recently ploughed, may be the remains of a levelled fulacht fiadh. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Adruel.

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 Adruel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Adruel · Eadrúill

Area

489,445 m² (48.94 ha, 120.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcomin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Mountheaton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountheaton electoral division: 665 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballywilliam, Boultry, Glasshouse, Keeloge

Placenames

Adruel 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.