Ardgehane
Ardgehane is a townland in the civil parish of Abbeymahon, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Ard Gaotháin.
Parcel 2177231
- Area
- 3,095 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 264 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
6 Mar 2007Refused
Demolition of existing dwelling and outbuilding and construction of new dwelling house , garage , and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/625
16 Feb 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage, carport & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/740
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- CO136-047 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rolling pasture, commanding extensive view S across Clonakilty Bay. Circular area (30m ENE-WSW; c. 25.4m ESE-WNW) defined by earthen bank (H 0.8m) WSW->NNW, with external fosse (D 1m); levelled bank survives as slight scarp NNW->WSW (H 0.2m). 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 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 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 181.3 ha
- 448 acres
- Land parcels
- 170
- registered freehold, median 2,391 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 100
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
170 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardgehane, from 4 m² to 256,275 m² (25.63 ha, 63.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.
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
21 Aug 2026Invalid - prepare letters
The retention of the changes to the existing agricultural shed, which has been converted to a two-storey dwelling house, new windows and doors installed, the widening of the existing site entrance, the retention of the existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/2197
6 Jul 2026Invalid - prepare letters
The retention of the changes to the existing agricultural shed, which has been converted to a two-storey dwelling house, new windows and doors installed, the widening of the existing site entrance, the retention of the existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1818
6 Feb 2026Application withdrawn
The retention of the changes to the existing agricultural shed, which has been converted to a two-storey dwelling house, new windows and doors installed, the widening of the existing site entrance, the retention of the existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0247
21 Nov 2025Invalid - case closed
Retention of changes to existing agricultural shed, which was converted to a two-storey dwelling house, new windows and doors installed. The widening of the existing site entrance, the retention of the existing wastewater treatment system and all associated works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6534
29 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed
The retention of the changes to the existing agricultural shed which has been converted to a two-storey dwelling house, the widening of the existing site entrance, the existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6054
9 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for a proposed new detached dwelling house, detached garage, provision of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5105
7 May 2025Conditional permission
a) Demolition of existing silage pits. b) Construction of an agricultural shed consisting of cubicles, feeding area and underground slurry storage tanks in place of existing silage pits. c) Construction of 2 new silage pits. d) Alterations to existing cubicle shed to incorporate a new feeding barrier and rearranged cubicle layout and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4844
25 Oct 2024Withdrawn
Permission to (a) decommission existing septic tank system and associated percolation area and (b) install a new proprietary waste water treatment system and raised sand polishing filter to serve an existing dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6038
27 May 2021Incompleted application
Demolition of existing two storey dwelling house and construction of a two storey dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5471
19 May 2021Conditional
Construct a machinery storage shed, earth walled bund to existing overground slurry storage tank and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5368
27 Oct 2020Conditional
Demolition of section of existing dwelling at rear, construction of new two storey extension to rear, with part of extension on top of retained area of dwelling. Permission also sought for the alteration of front and side elevations and the construction of new windows and rooflights in such elevations.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6358
24 Sept 2020Withdrawn
Construction of two storey extension to existing single storey dwelling for use as granny flat including incorporation of part of existing dwelling into same and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6087
31 Jul 2020Incompleted application
To construct a dwelling house extension and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5648
6 Jul 2020Conditional
Renovation of an existing derelict dwelling house including the removal of first floor and replacement of roof and permission for a storey and a half extension to the side and rear, installation of an effluent treatment system, a new entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5396
12 Jun 2020Incompleted application
To renovate an existing dwelling house including the removal of first floor and replacement of roof and permission for a storey and a half extension to the side and rear, installation of an effluent treatment system, a new entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5206
12 May 2020Incompleted application
To renovate an existing dwelling house and permission for an extension to the side and the rear of the existing building, installation of an effluent treatment system, a new entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4940
28 Feb 2020Conditional
To construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4420
18 Sept 2019Withdrawn
To construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6285
12 Aug 2019Conditional
To construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6020
16 Jul 2019Incompleted application
To construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/479
15 May 2019Withdrawn
Construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/321
25 Apr 2019Withdrawn
To construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/269
16 Apr 2019Incompleted application
To construct dwelling, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/249
14 Nov 2018Refused
Renovate an existing dwelling house and permission for extension to the side and rear of existing building, installation of an effluent treatment system, a new entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/678
17 Sept 2018Incompleted application
Renovate existing dwelling house and extension to the side and rear of existing building installation of an effluent treatment system, a new entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/558
The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardgehane.
Recorded monuments
- CO136-047 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rolling pasture, commanding extensive view S across Clonakilty Bay. Circular area (30m ENE-WSW; c. 25.4m ESE-WNW) defined by earthen bank (H 0.8m) WSW->NNW, with external fosse (D 1m); levelled bank survives as slight scarp NNW->WSW (H 0.2m). 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
- CO136-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SSW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 39m N-S) enclosed by scarp (H 1.1m), with low internal lip (H 0.3m); external fosse SW->WNW (D 0.8m), shallow fosse elsewhere. Field boundary on scarp face encloses site NW->WSW. Gap (Wth 1m) to ENE. Interior raised on SW side to compensate for hillslope. 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
- CO136-049 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on break in SSE-facing slope, extensive view over Clonakilty Bay to S and over countryside to E. Levelled; some undulations in field. Known locally as site of fort. 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
- CO136-050 Church
Description
Rectangular, gable-ended structure (int. 14m E-W; 15.2m N-S) converted from school to church in 1834 (Webster 1924, 74), now used as shed. Apse to E, porch entrance to W. Teacher's dwelling (single storey, 3-bay) to E. 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
- Ardgehane, Clonakilty6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ardgehane · Ard Gaotháin
- Area
- 1,812,901 m² (181.29 ha, 447.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeymahon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Abbeymahon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 743 people lived in 247 households in the Abbeymahon electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghafore, Ballinglanna, Currahy, Donaghmore, Grange Beg, Maulmacredmond, Maulmore, Rocksavage, Trieneens
- 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.