Ardkeenan

299 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardkeenan, from 5 m² to 168,135 m² (16.81 ha, 41.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 67 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 Ardkeenan 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.

• 5 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a three bay double loose cattle shed and seepage tank at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 241

• 20 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area serving existing school buildings and replacement with a new wastewater treatment system and tertiary polishing filter and all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23261

• 11 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of construction of dwelling house and effluent treatment system along with associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23191

• 6 Apr 2023N/a

  Permission for development consisting of construction of a dwelling house with effluent treatment system along with associated site works at

  Permission consequent · Roscommon County Council, 23119

• 20 Mar 2023N/a

  Permission consequent on grant of Outline Permission for development consisting of construction of dwelling house and effluent treatment system along with associated site works (Previous planning reference PD/18/600) at

  Permission consequent · Roscommon County Council, 2387

• 19 Jan 2023Conditional

  Permission to erect an extension to the front of dwelling house with ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2313

• 23 Dec 2022N/a

  Permission to erect an extension to the front of dwelling house with ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22686

• 11 Nov 2019Conditional

  permission for development which includes the extension to the existing dwelling, new entrance to the site with stone boundary wall, erection of new garage, along with demolition of existing extension and shed as well as all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19578

• 14 Oct 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey extension to include an additional classroom with a link corridor and all associated site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19528

• 20 Sept 2019Conditional

  permission for development consisting of (i) the construction of a two storey flat roof extension to the rear of the existing dwelling with a single storey link to same (ii) the removal of a balcony over rear flat roof extension and at side elevation (iii) block up door way on first floor and alter doorway to provide window on ground floor which are both on the east elevation (iv) some minor internal renovations of existing dwelling (v) decommissioning of existing septic tank (vi) installation of a new effluent treatment unit and percolation area and (vii) all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19483

• 5 Dec 2018Conditional

  for the development of a dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance with associated site works at

  Outline permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18600

• 17 Oct 2018N/a

  for the development of a dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance with associated site works at

  Outline permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18523

• 5 Dec 2017N/a

  Planning permission to change existing single storey dwelling house to storey and half with rear extension with change to internal floor plan and to erect a portal frame general purpose shed and to decommission existing septic tank and soak pit and to install new treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17488

• 27 Nov 2017N/a

  to change existing single storey dwelling house to story & half with rear extension with change to internal floor plan and to erect a portal frame general purpose shed and to decommission existing septic tank & soak pit and to install new treatment unit & percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17475

• 8 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission for proposed dwelling, sewage treatment system, percolation area, domestic garage and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1796

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 Ardkeenan.

Recorded monuments

• RO051-063001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 50.6m NNW-SSE; 42.5m ENE-WSW) defined by the remains of a stone wall (at SE: original Wth 1.55m) overlain by a drystone wall and hedge, and obscured by field stones. The original entrance is not identified. At SE is a children's burial ground (RO051-063002-), visible as a triangular enclosure (ext. dims 18m E-W; 10m N-S) defined by the remains of stone walls at N and W and the inner face of the cashel wall at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO051-063002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. At the SE interior of cashel (RO051-063001-) is a childrens burial ground, visible as a triangular enclosure (ext. dims. 18m E-W; 10m N-S) defined by the remains of stone walls at N and W and the inner face of the cashel wall at SE. (Egan 2007, 383-5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardkeenan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Ardkeenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ardkeenan

Area

3,851,207 m² (385.12 ha, 951.65 acres)

Civil parish

Drum, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Thomastown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

777 people lived in 264 households in the Thomastown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belrea, Cloonark, Cloonillan, Cuilfadda and Derrinshin, Curryroe, Dooghan, Kilmocolmock, Newtown

Placenames

Ardkeenan 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.