Ardagh East

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardagh East, from 42 m² to 188,888 m² (18.89 ha, 46.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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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 Ardagh East.

Recorded monuments

• CO143-020 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Roadside on N side of gateway into Convent of Mercy, Rosscarbery. Survives as rectangular depression lined with stone slabs and cement. No longer in holy use. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO143-021 Burial ground
  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

• St Faughna's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, built c.1820, having three-bay entrance front (south), two-bay nave, three-bay transepts to sides (west, east) and single-bay chancel to rear (north). Recent flat-roofed extensions to rear. Hipped and pitched slate roofs having wrought-iron ridge cresting, dressed limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Tooled limestone bellcote surmounted by wrought-iron cruciform finial to front gable, set on tooled limestone corbels. Dressed rubble stone walls. Pointed niches with stone sills and rubble stone voussoirs to entrance front and transepts. Statues set on rendered plinths to upper level niches, front elevation, and carved limestone fonts to lower level niches, front and transepts elevations. Dressed limestone string course and quatrefoil to front elevation gable. Rendered walls to chancel. Pointed arch window opening with carved stone hood moulding, chamfered sill and block-and-start surround to front elevation, having tripartite reticulated tracery with lead-lined stained glass windows. Pointed arch window openings with stone sills and tooled limestone voussoirs to nave and transepts, having tripartite multiple-pane timber sliding sash windows within intersecting and reticulated timber tracery. Pointed arch window opening with rendered sill and block-and-start render surround to rear elevation of chancel, having multiple pointed arch lights with lead-lined stained glass windows. Pointed arch door openings with dressed limestone voussoirs and stone steps throughout, having replacement double-leaf timber panelled doors. Moulded Tudor arch set on engaged colonettes to chancel interior, having ornate marble altar, reredos, lectern, and altar railings. Extensive mosaics to chancel walls. Panelled plaster ceiling with heavy cornices. Carved marble memorials. Carved timber stations of the cross. Timber galleries set on columns with carved timber arches between columns and having decorative panelling above, to transepts and nave, retaining fitted timber pews. Organ to east transept. Set within own grounds having rubble and rendered enclosing walls with capped square-profile gate piers.

• Sisters of Mercy Convent, building misc, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of five three-bay single-storey houses, built c.1895, having later corrugated-iron extension to north gable. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, gable copings, ceramic fleur-de-lis ridge cresting and cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds having timber panelled doors surmounted by overlights. Extension having pitched corrugated-iron roof, corrugated-iron and rubble stone walls, and timber windows and doors. Set within convent grounds and backing onto road.

• Sisters of Mercy Convent, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached L-plan six-bay two-storey former house, built c.1870, now in use as convent. Various recent flat roof extensions to rear (north). Interior now accessed via neighbouring convent block. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, pitched slate roof to rear return. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having replacement one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. uPVC casement windows to side (west) and rear elevations. Square-headed door opening with stone step and replacement double-leaf glazed timber door to side (west) elevation. Set within extensive convent grounds.

• Sisters of Mercy Convent, convent/nunnery, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached fourteen-bay two-storey with dormer attic convent, commenced 1894, having three projecting bays to front, comprising central entrance bay with flanking full-height bay windows. Projecting central stairwell block to rear (north). Later full-height pitched roofed extension surmounted by bellcote to side (west) with recent porch to front. Later single-bay two-storey pitched roofed extension to side (east) with recent lean-to porch to front. Hipped and pitched slate roofs having dressed limestone chimneystack, eaves course set on corbels, rooflights, fleur-de-lis ceramic ridge cresting and cast-iron rainwater goods. Render cruciform finials to eastern canted bay and rear stairwell block. Timber bargeboards to eastern connecting extension and rear dormer windows. Dressed roughly coursed stone walls with render quoins, having string course between ground and first floors. Pointed arch niches with stone sills and dressed voussoirs to central canted bay with render statues. Camber-headed window openings with stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Replacement lead-lined stained glass windows to first floor of western canted bay. Square-headed window openings to dormers with single and bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed arch window opening with stone sill to side (west) extension, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window with intersecting tracery to overlight. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds to first floor of side (east) extension, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window opening with stone sill and red brick block-and-start surrounds to rear elevation, having timber-framed tripartite window with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and spoked fanlight. Camber-headed door opening to side (east) elevation of central entrance bay, having glazed timber door with overlight. Square-headed door openings to recent porches having glazed timber doors. Set within own extensive grounds, having rubble stone enclosing walls with capped square-profile gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

• Sisters of Mercy Convent, convent/nunnery, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached six-bay two-storey convent, built c.1910, having hipped roof extensions to rear (north) and recent flat-roofed extension to side (west). Main entrance accessed through central convent block to side (west). Hipped slate roofs with eaves course on corbels, having dressed limestone and red brick chimneystacks, ceramic fleur-de-lis ridge cresting and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble stone walls with render quoins and plinth. Recent render band between ground and first floors. Camber-headed window openings with stone sills, red brick block-and-start surrounds, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Set within extensive convent grounds.

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-span rubble stone road bridge, built c.1820, spanning river. Segmental-arch having dressed rubble limestone voussoirs. Rubble stone spandrels and parapets with solider coping.

• School, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height former school, dated 1835, with single-pitch roofed dance hall extension to rear (east), added c. 1965. Now in use as parochial offices. Pitched slate roof with dressed limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls. Oval limestone date plaque surmounted by dressed limestone voussoirs, rectangular stone name plaque and round-headed niches to south gable. Roughcast render walls to extension. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and fixed timber-framed multiple-pane window to central bay. Square-headed door opening with stone step to front elevation, having replacement double-leaf timber battened door. Rubble stone enclosing wall to side (south). Rubble stone retaining walls to side (north).

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 Ardagh East, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardagh East.

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 Ardagh East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ardagh East · Ardach Thoir

Area

1,741,334 m² (174.13 ha, 430.29 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Rosscarbery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,160 people lived in 442 households in the Rosscarbery electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh West, Barleyhill East, Burgatia, Cahermore, Derry, Froe, Tinneel, Townlands

Placenames

Ardagh East 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.