Ardneeskan

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardneeskan, from 137 m² to 53,473 m² (5.35 ha, 13.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardneeskan 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.

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a two storey detached dwelling house and install a waster water treatment system with associated percolation area. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2294

• 5 Mar 2020Conditional

  development consisting of as built dwelling house, 6 No. existing domestic sheds, an existing Pollytunnel and an existing glasshouse together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2067

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL027-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.8m) along the NW and NE arcs and by a scarp (H 1.5m) elsewhere. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary system. The S portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the base of the N-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (24m E-W) enclosed by a scarp (H 1.4m) with a slight internal lip (H 0.4m) and by a shallow external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m). There is a causeway across the fosse at N and S, used by farm machinery to gain access to the interior. A low rise with a shallow external depression along the W arc may indicate a second bank and fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardneeskan.

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 Ardneeskan, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1164 (ZIP).

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 Ardneeskan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ardneeskan · Ard Naoscan

Area

430,157 m² (43.02 ha, 106.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Lisconny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

394 people lived in 131 households in the Lisconny electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolbock, Cooperhill, Lisbanagher

Placenames

Ardneeskan 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.