# Ardra, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonsast, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Ard Rátha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,595,941 m² (159.59 ha, 394.37 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,395 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonsast, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/clonsast.md - Barony: Coolestown - Electoral division: Bracknagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41620 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180036 - Centre: latitude 53.204533, longitude -7.106882 (WGS 84) ## 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); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 310105: 320,706 m² (32.07 ha, 79.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310105.md - Parcel 295688: 223,446 m² (22.34 ha, 55.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295688.md - Parcel 312960: 161,521 m² (16.15 ha, 39.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312960.md - Parcel 298198: 116,532 m² (11.65 ha, 28.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298198.md - Parcel 5373944: 77,408 m² (7.74 ha, 19.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5373944.md - Parcel 312896: 71,190 m² (7.12 ha, 17.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312896.md - Parcel 307351: 70,950 m² (7.1 ha, 17.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307351.md - Parcel 5721675: 61,234 m² (6.12 ha, 15.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5721675.md - Parcel 303907: 59,117 m² (5.91 ha, 14.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303907.md - Parcel 303593: 50,004 m² (5 ha, 12.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303593.md - Parcel 275157: 48,851 m² (4.89 ha, 12.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275157.md - Parcel 276806: 40,169 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276806.md - Parcel 5721686: 31,806 m² (3.18 ha, 7.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5721686.md - Parcel 5497114: 30,979 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5497114.md - Parcel 305081: 27,811 m² (2.78 ha, 6.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305081.md - Parcel 5668293: 7,432 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5668293.md - Parcel 4661636: 5,034 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661636.md - Parcel 272661: 2,262 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272661.md - Parcel 275451: 2,199 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275451.md - Parcel 314614: 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314614.md - Parcel 5760468: 2,127 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5760468.md - Parcel 5668315: 1,640 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5668315.md - Parcel 297141: 1,578 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/297141.md - Parcel 298987: 1,411 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298987.md - Parcel 5721678: 531 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5721678.md - Parcel 5548611: 333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5548611.md - Parcel 5671277: 117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5671277.md - Parcel 5760473: 5 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5760473.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Feb 2021, Offaly County Council 2138: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2138/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardra. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardra. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardra. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ardra.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ardra.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ardra.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bracknagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/bracknagh.md - Chevychase or Derrynadarragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/chevychase-or-derrynadarragh.md - Clonsast Lower: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonsast-lower.md - Clonsast Upper: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonsast-upper.md - Pollaghaglass: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pollaghaglass.md - Pollaghnagraigue: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pollaghnagraigue.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ardra - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ardra