Ardvally

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardvally, from 1,358 m² to 173,764 m² (17.38 ha, 42.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardvally 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.

• 22 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINE STORAGE SHED, SILAGE PIT WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150490

• 3 Dec 2020Unconditional

  (1) THE REFURBISHMENT OF, AND EXTENSION TO, THE EXISTING FORMER DWELLING BUILDING, (2) THE INSTALLATION OF AN APPROVED PROPRIETARY WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, (3) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE, ACCESS DRIVE-WAY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR AN EXISTING MOBILE HOME ON SITE FOR THE DURATION OF THE ABOVE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051850

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951490

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 Ardvally.

Recorded monuments

• DG083-001 Burial ground
  Description

  Kiltiernan Graveyard consists of a modern burial ground with no suggestion of a pre-18th century use other than its name. It is situated on top of a low hill in undulating good pasture land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG083-005 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Kiltiernan Graveyard, graveyard/cemetery, 1700–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard on rectilinear-plan, erected c. 1750, having collection of mainly recumbent eighteenth and nineteenth-century gravemarkers. Some upstanding, Celtic cross and table-type memorials to site. Site surrounded by rubble or fieldstone boundary wall. Gateway to the east comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate. Located in the centre of a field to the south-east of Ardara in undulating countryside.

• Farmyard complex, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with windbreak entrance, lean-to single-storey extension to rear and lean-to single-storey outbuilding attached to northwest end. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed openings, diminishing to first floor, with smooth-render surrounds, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation with painted stone sills, and timber battened door. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to southeast with external stone steps to northwest gable, one-bay single-storey addition to southeast and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Corrugated-iron roofs, pitched to main block and southeast addition and lean-to to rear addition, with rubble stone walls, rendered to additions, and square-headed openings with timber lintels and timber battened doors.

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 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1180 (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.

No address of the register names Ardvally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ardvally

Area

649,724 m² (64.97 ha, 160.55 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Mulmosog, the unit of the census

Census 2022

238 people lived in 91 households in the Mulmosog electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altnagapple, Ardlougher, Meentanadea, Mogumna, Mogumna Mountain, Moy, Mullanacloy, Woodhill

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ardvally 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.