Ardra
Townland in the civil parish of Clonsast, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Ard Rátha
- Area
- 159.6 ha
- 394 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 29,395 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardra, from 5 m² to 320,706 m² (32.07 ha, 79.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardra 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
3 Feb 2021Conditional
ROAD / JUNCTION ACCOMMODATION WORKS TO FACILITATE TURBINE DELIVERIES ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPOSED WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT IN CO. KILDARE. A CONCURRENT PLANNING APPLICATION IS BEING LODGED TO KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL IN RELATION TO A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT WHICH CONSISTS OF 5 NO. WIND TURBINES WITH A TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 169M AND ALL ASSOCIATED FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREAS; 1 NO. ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; 1 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND; ALL ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING CONNECTING THE TURBINES TO THE PROPOSED ON-SITE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION; PROVISION OF NEW SITE ACCESS TRACKS AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE; ERECTION OF 1 NO. PERMANENT METEOROLOGICAL MAST OF UP TO 100M IN HEIGHT; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, ANCILLARY WORKS AND EQUIPMENT. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) HAVE BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2138
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 Ardra.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardra.
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
- 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 Ardra.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ardra · Ard Rátha
- Area
- 1,595,941 m² (159.59 ha, 394.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonsast, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolestown
- Electoral division
- Bracknagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bracknagh electoral division: 1,141 people in 381 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bracknagh, Chevychase or Derrynadarragh, Clonsast Lower, Clonsast Upper, Pollaghaglass, Pollaghnagraigue
- Placenames
- Ardra 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.