Ardnagowna

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnagowna, from 1,855 m² to 181,138 m² (18.11 ha, 44.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Ardnagowna 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.

• 9 Mar 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission for four bay double slatted shed to include underground storage tanks and all associated works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2614

• 9 Feb 2026N/a

  Planning Permission to retain four bay double slatted shed to include underground storage tanks and all associated works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2610

• 10 Nov 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to erect a four bay slatted shed to include creep area, underground storage tank and a roofed dung stead, and all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2581

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 Ardnagowna.

Recorded monuments

• RO016-110 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked as a circular wooded area (diam. c. 40-45m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a level landscape c. 80m N of Smith Hill House. This is the remains of a tree-ring (diam. c. 40m) in the parkland of Kinard House, which was built c. 1790 and is situated c. 370m to the SW. An arc of the perimeter survives SW-W-NE (C c. 40m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-131 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked as a wooded enclosure (diam. c. 40-50m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of a N-facing slope, c. 500m E of Kinard House and c. 250m SE of Smith Hill House. This is a tree-ring (diam. c. 40m), now used as a small field. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Smith Hill House, country house, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house, later used as rectory, built c.1790, with return to rear. Now in use as private dwelling. Hipped slate roof with limestone chimneystacks. Roughcast-rendered walls. Replacement uPVC windows and tooled limestone sills. Round-headed window opening to first floor above doorway. Recent glazed porch to front elevation. Round-headed doorway with tooled stone surround comprising fluted pilasters and keystone containing spoked fanlight and timber panelled door flanked by two sidelights (now blocked up). Cast-iron entrance gate flanked by rendered piers and sweeping walls. Cut-stone piers to east of house gives access to modernized outbuildings to rear yard.

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 Ardnagowna, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ardnagowna

Area

861,950 m² (86.2 ha, 212.99 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Elphin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

893 people lived in 371 households in the Elphin electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel Upper, Carrownurlar, Commeen, Elphin, Kinard, Lishugh

Placenames

Ardnagowna 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.