Ardgillan Demesne

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardgillan Demesne, from 9,646 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres) to 261,677 m² (26.17 ha, 64.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

• G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 May 2015Grant permission

  Farm shed using existing field entrance onto R127 public road.

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0075

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: North-West Irish Sea cSPA 004236

Recorded monuments

• DU005-078 Cross (present location)
  Description

  This cross which bears a late medieval carving of the Crucifixion formerly lay near the remains of the late-medieval manorial church (DU002-002002-) at Bremore. It was brought to Ardgillan Castle in 2009 for safe-keeping where it is stored in the turret room of the castle. A photograph of the monument taken by Patrick Healy in 1985 (https://source.southdublinlibraries.ie/handle/10599/3599) shows the carving of a small Latin Cross with Crucified Jesus carved in relief, long outstretched arms with hands nailed to the cross, wearing a loincloth or perizoma around his waist with overlapping feet resting on the top of the skull of Adam. I N R I acronym incised into the top of the cross above the head of Jesus.  The face of Jesus appears to be damaged.  INRI is a Latin acronym for Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum, which translates to "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews". According to Jewish traditions, Golgotha or Calvary was the place where the skull of Adam was buried. The Crucified Jesus was sometimes referred to as ‘The Second Adam’ who died to live, in contrast to the First Adam who lived to die.  According to the Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture, the term 'Calvary was a Latinized form of the Hebrew Golgotha meaning ‘[place of] a skull’.  It is recorded as the site of the Crucifixion as Calvary by Luke and as Golgotha by the other evangelists. The original of the name is not clear, but from early times it was regarded as the burial place of Adam's skull, so that Christ's blood shed on it would bring redemption to the human race' (Jones et. al. 2013, 92). Cross referenced with DU002-002004-. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Architectural heritage

• Ardgillan Castle, country house, 1735–1745 · National interest
  Description

  Detached castellated thirteen-bay three-storey over basement house, built 1738. Comprising central three-bay block with breakfront tower and flanked by advanced three-bay wings which are terminated by towers. Remodelled c.1815. Set in large mature landscaped grounds overlooking restored walled garden. Curvilinear timber glasshouse, and two farm courtyards, c.1860. Rubble stone farm buildings arranged around two courtyards and nineteenth-century ice house. The dining room has intricately carved oak panelling by Italian brothers Guardocici dated 1889 featuring Taylor Family crest.ROOF: Concealed by crenellated parapet; double pitched; slate; rendered chimney; octagonal terracotta chimney pots. WALLS: Nap rendered; castellated parapet; rendered quoins and plinth; nap rendered sections forming Gothic arches above windows. OPENINGS: Square headed window and door openings; rendered window reveals; rendered cills with decorative corbels; 6/9 timber sashes and 4/4 bi-partite sashes; limestone door surround and hood moulding; late 18th century panelled timber door.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ardgillan Demesne, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Ardgillan Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Ardgillan Demesne · Ard Giolláin

Area

755,623 m² (75.56 ha, 186.72 acres)

Civil parish

Balrothery, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Balbriggan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

19,347 people lived in 6,127 households in the Balbriggan Rural electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 74% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balbriggan, Hampton Demesne, Kilmainham, Strifeland

Placenames

Ardgillan Demesne 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.