Ardnacrohy

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnacrohy, from 22 m² to 279,051 m² (27.91 ha, 68.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ardnacrohy 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.

• 2 Apr 2026Refused

  the construction of a new 2-storey dwelling house, detached garage, entrance with front wall, domestic wastewater treatment system & all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2660377

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  the construction of a slatted cubicle shed, walled silage slab, drafting and animal handling unit, concrete aprons and a settlement pond

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24363

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 Ardnacrohy.

Recorded monuments

• LI036-155 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, at base of a slight NW-facing slope. Circular area (29m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.35m) with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 2.3m). Single whitethorn bush on bank at WNW. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-157 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight SW-facing slope. Oval area (29.2m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.05m), with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 2.4m) WNW->NE. Entrance (Wth 2.2m) at NNE; gap in bank at W. A N-S running field boundary crosses fosse at ENE; drain runs along fosse SW->W. Interior slopes down to S and is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-158 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight ENE-facing slope at end of broad E-W ridge. Circular area (34.5m N-S; 37.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.65m) ESE->NNE, and defined by scarped edge NNE->ESE, with external fosse (D 0.75m; Wth 3.3m) NNW->NNE and NE->S, and with external earthen bank (ext. H 1.3m) NE->ESE. Causeway entrance (Wth 7.2m) at NE. Field boundary runs along outer line of fosse ESE->S; all other field boundaries in vicinity of site have been removed. Interior slopes down to N and is under pasture except NE quadrant which is covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardnacrohy, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_466 (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.

• Ardnacrohy, Newcastle West8 sales

Name

Ardnacrohy · Ard na Croiche

Area

980,159 m² (98.02 ha, 242.2 acres)

Civil parish

Monagay, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,491 people lived in 875 households in the Newcastle Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvullin, Ballygeel, Cloonyscrehane, Fawnlehane, Killaready, Moanleana, Teermena

Placenames

Ardnacrohy 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.