Ardmacroan

Area

59,084 m² (5.91 ha, 14.6 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Ardmacroan

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• RO011-136 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low-lying landscape with drumlins to the E and W and a S-N stream or drain c. 15m to the W. D-shaped overgrown area (dims c. 23m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m at E to 5m at W; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 0.8-1.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.8m at W to 5.7m at E; D 0.3-0.85m) W-N-E. There is no visible entrance, and the site is truncated by an E-W farm roadway at S. Enclosure (RO011-137----) is c. 110m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-137 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a rectangular feature on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of the NW-facing slope of a low NW-SE drumlin. Rectangular overgrown area (dims 24m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an E-W road bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) at S and scarps (H 0.2-1m) on the other sides, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3m; D 0.3m) at E, and a berm (Wth 2m) at N. Rath (RO011-136----) is c. 110m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-138 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in a low-lying landscape with a NW-SE stream or drain c. 30m to the SW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 22m) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at N to 0.9m at S), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 7-7.8m; D 0.35-0.6m) at N and E-SE, but the fosse is reduced to a berm SSW-SW. There is no visible entrance, and a NNE-SSW field bank truncates the fosse at W. Dangan castle (RO011-139----) is c. 40m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-139 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Identified by John O'Donovan in the 1830s as Daingean Bona Cuilinn which was burned in 1145 (AFM vol. 2, 1079), the name Dangan (daingean) means stronghold. It was called Dangen I Beirne and had a fair on 25th May in the later 16th century. Donogh O'Birne held it in the early 17th century (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 11), and his son Donogh owned a quarter amounting to 160 acres there in 1641 (Simington 1949, 29). It does not feature in the history of the Mac Dermot clan of Moylurg (Mac Dermot 1996). It is described as the site of Dangan Castle on the 1837 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map, and iis situated on a low rise in a low-lying landscape, but no features are visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO011-138----) is c. 40m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 27 November 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.