Ardgehane
Ardgehane is a townland in the civil parish of Castlehaven, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Ard Gaotháin.
Parcel 2166863
- Area
- 5,814 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 175 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ardgehane
Planning applications on this parcel
11 Sept 2000Conditional
Construction of single storey & two storey extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/5473
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA 004156
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 73.8 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 5,262 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardgehane, from 115 m² to 327,738 m² (32.77 ha, 80.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardgehane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jun 2026Refused
Permission to construct a dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system & all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1493
28 Apr 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission to construct a dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system & all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1088
19 Jul 2007Conditional
Construct single storey porch extension to front of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1949
19 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Proposed single storey extension to front of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1613
26 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Construction of single storey porch extension to front of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1128
11 Sept 2000Conditional
Construction of single storey & two storey extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/5473
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA 004156
Recorded monuments
- CO150-033 Burial ground
Description
In scrub. Marked 'Kill burial ground for Children' on OS 6-inch map (1842). Known locally as burial ground. Site indistinguishable due to overgrowth. 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
- CO150-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
In hilly rough grazing. Roughly circular area (24.2m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank SW->S containing some stone (H 1m). Two upright stones (H 0.8m: 0.9m) may have revetted outer bank face to S. Recent break in bank S->SW (Wth 17m). Plough strip (Wth 6m) extends into interior to within 2m of ENE bank. Locally known as "lios". 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardgehane.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ardgehane, about 1 in 10 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 Ardgehane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardgehane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ardgehane · Ard Gaotháin
- Area
- 737,942 m² (73.79 ha, 182.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlehaven, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Castlehaven South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 550 people lived in 193 households in the Castlehaven South electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barryroe, Bawnishall, Crosslea, Reendacussane
- Placenames
- Ardgehane 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.