Ardrahan South

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardrahan South, from 39 m² to 213,705 m² (21.37 ha, 52.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ardrahan South 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.

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  for a mural at Ardrahan Village.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221255

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension, new sewage treatment plant, percolation area, retention of Domestic sheds and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 43 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 69.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21664

• 7 Feb 2019Refused

  for residential development. The proposed development consists of the provision of a total of 23 no. residential detached dwellings. The development includes for the demolition of an agricultural structure on the site. The development also includes for the construction of a communal wastewater treatment plant and utility building, together with all associated landscaping, boundary treatments, potable water well and site works. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies this planning application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 8 House Type A - 2000 sqm; 14 House Type B - 3224 sqm; 1 House Type C - 191.8 sqm

  Permission, 23 homes · Galway County Council, 19157

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 Ardrahan South.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-001009 Souterrain
  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.

• GA114-001013 Bullaun stone (present location)
  Description

  This roughly oval granite bullaun stone (L 0.78m; Wth 0.55m; visible H 0.6m) was found in a pile of rubble in the NW corner of a garden. It was subsequently moved and is now a landscape feature in the garden. It is set c. 0.3m deep in the ground. The central circular depression (diam. 0.3m; D 0.3m) is used for growing flowers. The bullaun may be associated with the medieval church (GA114-001003-) and round tower (GA114-001005-) c. 110m to the NNW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 November 2018

• GA114-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 279, no. 25) as a ‘Stone fort’, it consists of a poorly preserved circular ringfort (diam. 23.5m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. Field-clearance rubble obscures the enclosing element at W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 October 2016

Architectural heritage

• Ardrahan Garda Síochána Station, RIC barracks, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former RIC barracks, built c.1860, having central gabled entrance breakfront, and two-bay two-storey addition to rear. Now in use as Garda station. Hipped tiled roof with cut limestone chimneystacks, some cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bracketed overhanging eaves. Cut snecked limestone walls to front elevation, and dressed limestone walls to side elevations, with cut limestone block-and-start quoins and plinth course. Square-headed doorway with cut limestone surround and tooled limestone cornice with stone modillions. Recessed panel to apron of first floor window above, now having garda emblem. Round-headed window opening to first floor of breakfront, with raised tooled limestone surround with raised keystone, tooled limestone sill and replacement uPVC window, and square-headed windows elsewhere having tooled limestone sills, cut limestone voussoirs to front elevation, cut limestone lintels to side elevations, and replacement uPVC windows. Recent gates to entrance to yard to south, having snecked limestone boundary walls.

• Demesne walls/gates/railings, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, made c.1800, comprising double pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers with limestone copings and rounded caps having gabled appearance to front, flanking double-leaf cast-metal vehicular gate and flanking pedestrian gates, with adjoining cast-metal railings on cut limestone plinths and terminating in square-profile tooled limestone piers with plinths and copings.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_763 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ardrahan South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ardrahan South · Ard Raithin Theas

Area

480,085 m² (48.01 ha, 118.63 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Castletaylor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletaylor electoral division: 693 people in 215 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrahan North, Caherdaly, Caherkelly, Cregaclare Demesne, Cullenagh Beg

Placenames

Ardrahan South 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.