Ard

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ard, from 137 m² to 355,447 m² (35.54 ha, 87.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ard 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.

• 28 Jan 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 36 METER LATTICE MOBILE AND BROADBAND TOWER WITH HEADFRAME CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND CABINETS ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4M PALISADE FENCE COMPOUND WITH ACCESS TRACK

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2127

• 15 Jan 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 36 METER LATTICE MOBILE AND BROADBAND TOWER WITH HEADFRAME CARRYING TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND CABINETS ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4M PALISADE FENCE COMPOUND WITH ACCESS TRACK

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2112

• 9 Feb 2018Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO REAR OF PROPERTY & REPLACE WITH A PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND TO INCLUDE RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1856

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 Ard.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ard.

Architectural heritage

• Geashill Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Tudor style L-plan two-storey former railway station, station master's house and ticket office, built c.1856, with recessed entrance porch to front elevation and single-storey gable-fronted bays to north-west. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, limestone chimneystacks and coping and decorative fleur-de-lis saddlestones to gabled elevations. Profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone walls. Chamfered limestone window surrounds with pointed-arched and square-headed window openings with timber sash windows. Pointed-arched door opening to station master's house with chamfered limestone surround with hoodmoulding. Accessed up limestone steps.

• Geashill Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay warehouse, built c.1856. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof with extended eaves supported on limestone corbels to front and rear elevations acting as hoods to the loading bays. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared-limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Three square-headed load-bay openings to front and rear elevations with yellow brick relieving arches and timber sliding doors. Pair of square-headed window openings to side elevations with yellow brick reveals, limestone sills and timber sash widows.

• Geashill Railway Station, worker's house, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former worker's house, built c.1856, with gabled entrance porch to front elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, some cast-iron rainwater goods and a yellow brick chimneystack. Coursed rubble limestone walls with limestone quoins. Flat-arched window openings with granite sills. Square-headed door opening to porch.

• Ard House, farm house, 1650–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement farmhouse with attic storey, built c.1700, with recessed flanking end bays and outbuildings to partially cobbled rear yard. Roof rebuilt in 1786. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Recessed square-headed door opening with timber panelled and glazed door. Door accessed up five limestone steps. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and timber sash windows. Timber casement windows to basement. Single-storey outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs. The house is internally divided equally in three with an oversized stairs occupying the central space flanked by rooms. The oversized stairs is an integral part of the house and unusually runs from the ground floor to the attic.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Ard, Geashill13 sales

Name

Ard · An tArd

Area

3,284,231 m² (328.42 ha, 811.55 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Clonygowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonygowan electoral division: 727 people in 233 households; 90% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanvilla, Ballyavill, Ballydownan, Ballymacrossan, Glebe East, Gorteenard, Killellery, Raheen

Placenames

Ard 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.