Ardcarn

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcarn, from 42 m² to 59,155 m² (5.92 ha, 14.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Ardcarn 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.

• 13 Jul 2026Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a block wall to replace a portion of existing leylandii hedging along the side of the house, wall to be of a similar height and covered in climbing plants - honeysuckle, clematis and similar at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2655

• 8 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission for the construction of a block wall to replace a portion of existing Leylandii hedging along the side of the house. Wall to be of a similar height and covered in climbing plants - honeysuckle, clematis and similar at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2654

• 10 Feb 2025N/a

  Permission for development consisting of the installation of a 36 metres lattice telecommunications antenna support structure carrying antennas, dishes, remote radio units (RRU’s), together with ground-based equipment cabinets, gantry poles, concrete foundation, access track, cable trays, site lamp, cable ladder, palisade fencing, GPS and all associated site development works, to provide for high speed wireless data and broadband services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560043

• 19 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for the retention of an extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling house, also the retention of a domestic shed including associated services at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23372

• 18 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for the following: (1) Permission for an extension (22.0 Sq.m.) to the rear of existing single storey dwelling. (2) External and Internal renovations to include external insulation to walls, a new raised gable roof and a new front porch with associated services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360114

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  to install a window in the north west elevation of dwelling house at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20448

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• RO053-007 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  On a level landscape. Ardcarn House is a two storey three-bay house with one storey, one bay wings attached to the E and W gables. It is still occupied and there is no reason to think it is pre-1700 in date. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO053-008001 Burnt mound
  Description

  Towards the headwaters of a slight E-W stream. An oval area of broken and burnt stone (dims 10m N-S; 8m E-W; max. D 0.45m) was identified during the testing for a water scheme. It was completely excavated (07E0720) but produced no artefacts or other features. Burnt mound (RO053-008002-) is c. 10m to the W. (Moore 2008; Quinn 2010) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO053-008002 Burnt mound
  Description

  Towards the headwaters of a slight E-W stream. This is a circular area of broken and burnt stone (diam. 8.5m; max. T 0.25m) which was identified in 2007 during the testing for a water scheme. It was sampled (07E0720) but produced no artefacts or other features and will be preserved beneath a roadway. Burnt mound (RO053-008001-) is c. 10m to the E. (Moore 2008, 33-5; Quinn 2010) 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 Ardcarn.

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 Ardcarn, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1405 (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 Ardcarn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ardcarn

Area

1,064,684 m² (106.47 ha, 263.09 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycarn

Electoral division

Creagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,005 people lived in 370 households in the Creagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhugh, Beagh (Brabazon), Beagh (Naghten), Cloonascragh (Co. Galway), Culliaghmore, Kellysgrove (Co. Galway), Sralea, Suckfield, Tulrush

Placenames

Ardcarn 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.