Ardlougher

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardlougher, from 33 m² to 115,504 m² (11.55 ha, 28.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ardlougher 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 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on site Wastewater Treatment System, access onto the public road and associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360104

• 28 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a new 5 bed dwelling, treatment unit, percolation area, associated site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21608

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 Ardlougher.

Recorded monuments

• RO017-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the top of the N-facing slope of a low E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m; at S: Wth 4.75m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.7m) E-S-W, and by a scarp (H 0.5-0.75m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.3m) E-SW. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-028001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of a low knoll. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 47.5m E-W; 40.5m N-S) defined by a grass and scrub-covered scarp (H 0.8m at E to 2.9m at N) with an entrance (Wth 5m) at E. The scarp is surrounded at its base by a berm (Wth 10-11.5m) defined by a scarp with bushes (H 0.3-0.6m) E-S-NW and there is a second outer berm (Wth 4.5-6.8m) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.6m) ESE-S-NW (max. ext. dims c. 90m NW-SE). Cashel (RO017-028002-) is immediately adjacent to the NE, overlying the outer perimeter. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-028002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a small spur running NE from rath (RO017-028001-) and overlying its outer perimeter. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 32m NW-SE; 30.3m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3-4m; H 0.1-0.5m) with no visible facing stones. There is an entrance (Wth 1.3m) at S, and a hut-site (RO017-028003-) (int. dims 4.6m E-W; 3.8m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2-3m; H 0.3m) or a quarry is on the perimeter at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-028003 Hut site
  Description

  On a small spur running NE from rath (RO017-028001-). Circular grass-covered area (int. dims 4.6m E-W; 3.8m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2-3m; H 0.3m) on the perimeter of cashel (RO017-028002-) at SE which may be a quarry. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in mixed woodland. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 33m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.15m) WNW-NE, and by a scarp (H 1.1m at W to 2m at S) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. 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 Ardlougher.

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 Ardlougher, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ardlougher

Area

515,682 m² (51.57 ha, 127.43 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Aughrim East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

242 people lived in 88 households in the Aughrim East electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim, Carrickilla, Carricklom, Glebe, Lackan, Lugateane, Rockville, Rodeen

Placenames

Ardlougher 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.