Ardkeeran

119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardkeeran, from 3 m² to 224,603 m² (22.46 ha, 55.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 75 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Jul 2026Conditional

  Part change of use from an existing retail unit to retail with ancillary off licence sales (area for display of alcohol circa. 9.5m2) and all associated site works, all at XL Riverstown, Ardkeeran, Riverstown, Sligo, F52 XE24

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660301

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  Construct a single storey extension to Riverstown Medical Practice with a floor area of 38.37m2 and carry out ancillary site works - CONDITION NO. 2 COMPLIED WITH

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560386

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  Changes to previously approved planning permission PL 23/60007, including changes to fenestration and entrance door, introduction of canopies to main entrance, reduction in the number of level changes to the terrace of houses, reduction in the number of steps in the building line along the terrace and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460416

• 24 Feb 2024Conditional

  to construct a side extension (28M2) to the Morrison Teach Ceoil, (music house), together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460052

• 4 Jan 2023Conditional

  1) Construct a synthetic turf all-weather Astro pitch together with perimeter fencing and associated floodlighting. 2) Construct a dressing rooms / club house with a gross floor area of 700 sq. m. 3) Construct entrances, roadway, on-site parking, footpaths, boundary walls together with all other ancillary site works. 4) Install a foul water pump station, storm water attenuation tank and connect to services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360006

• 4 Jan 2023Conditional

  1) Construct a terrace consisting of 8no. 2 storey 3 bedroom houses. 2) Construct roadway, on-site parking, footpaths, together with all other ancillary site works. 3) Install a storm water attenuation tank and connect to existing services.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360007

• 24 Jun 2022Conditional

  development consisting of (1) demolish existing derelict dwelling & sheds (2) construct a replacement dwelling, domestic garage, boundary walls, upgrade existing entrance and connect to services. This development is located on the curtilage of a bridge spanning the Douglas River, a protected structure RPS no. 18.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22217

• 11 May 2022N/a

  development consisting of (1) demolish existing derelict dwelling & sheds (2) construct a replacement dwelling, domestic garage, boundary walls, upgrade existing entrance and connect to services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22162

• 29 Jul 2019N/a

  development consisting of the construction of a domestic shed

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19311

• 20 Aug 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of a) Removal of existing single storey toilet block to side (South) of existing school, b) Provision of extensions (to the side) to include a new classroom, staff room, porch, and (to the rear) to include toilets/resource room, c) and all associated site development works including connection to on-site services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18336

• 10 Jul 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a single storey extension to existing single storey dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18264

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Meharth Lough 001900
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL027-120001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at the E end of a low narrow ridge, immediately N of Riverstown village. An oval area (27m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) raised 1.2 and 2m above external ground level in the W and E sectors respectively. The interior is enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.7m) with the remains of stone facing along the inner face. The outer face of the bank is steep sided. The interior slopes down to SE. There is a possible souterrain (SL027-120002-) in E half of the interior. A gap occurs in the bank at SE (Wth 5m) with a corresponding gentle slope down to the exterior. The upper stone of a rotary quern was found in 1999 adjacent to the rath (Walsh 2000, 280). A disused quarry, indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, lies NW of the rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-120002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL027-120001-). According to local information, there is a 'subterranean tunnel or chamber due to subsidence of earth' at the E side of the rath (SMR (1989) file). There are no visible remains of this. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-121 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying rough pasture, c. 50m SW of the Douglas River. Although levelled, a slight rise is visible in the area of the enclosure on the W side of a NE-SW field boundary. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a small pentagonal enclosure (c. 30m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) with the ESE-facing side formed by a NE-SW field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-176 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In 1836 a well known as St John's well was recorded in the N side of Ardkeeran townland (OSNB vol. 2, 61). The exact location of this well is not known. A well named 'John's well' on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, to NW of Riverstown, was also recorded (OSNB vol. 2, 76) and seems to have been a secular well. It is an unenclosed spring well feeding a stream that meanders to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-014 Barrow - embanked barrow
  Description

  In level pasture, near the SE end of a ridge. Views are good to excellent in all directions. A circular raised area (overall diam. 8.65m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.25-0.35m; ext. H 0.55-0.65m). The internal face of the bank has a long gentle slope while the external face is much sharper. The bank is broken at S (Wth 3m) due to the collapse of a hawthorn tree which has left a small depression in it. The interior (diam. 3.5m) is level and clear of overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL034-015 Crannog
  Description

  On the SW shore of Lough Meharth, an inter-drumlin lake and intervisible with another crannog (SL034-016----) c. 400m to SE. A roughly circular low-mound crannog (11m N-S; 10m E-W; H 1.2m above the shore) with a central crescent-shaped mid-mound (7m N-S; 4m E-W). The mid-mound consists of compact soil mixed with charcoal and has sharp edges which drop c. 0.23m to the surrounding plateau. The crannog is overgrown with grass and a few bushes. It is indicated as a circular islet, c. 10m from the lakeshore, on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as a small projection into the lake on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-bay double-height Roman Catholic church, built 1940. Cruciform on plan, three-bay nave to east, single-bay transepts to north and south, single-bay chancel to west, all with open-bed pedimented gable fronts, single-storey flat-roofed ancillary accommodation contained within angles of main structure, square-plan six-stage detached bell tower to north-east having octagonal lantern and cupola. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, carved stone crosses at apexes of gables, uPVC rainwater goods. Copper standing-seam ogee roof to cupola. Coursed squared-and-snecked tooled masonry walling, round-headed recesses to north, south and west gables, channelled pilasters to corners, projecting base plinth. Round-headed window openings to nave, chancel and transepts, stepped reveals, masonry sills, fixed-pane leaded light stained-glass windows c. 1940. Square-headed window openings to ground floor, polished ashlar dressings, granite sills, fixed-pane leaded-light stained glass windows c. 1940. Venetian window to east elevation, moulded arhivolt, fixed-pane leaded-light stained glass window. East entrance set within pilastered flat-roofed porch, square-headed door opening, leaded overlight, hardwood panelled double doors, stone approach steps. Interior with three-bay barrel-vaulted nave with moulded plaster enrichment, triumphal arches supported on Corinthian columns give access to transepts, choir balcony to east with bell flower enrichment to balustrade, shallow apse having Corinthian surround to west, side chapels to transepts at west, mosaic-tiled and timber floor, timber pews. Church set back from road in own grounds with smooth-rendered boundary wall to east.

• Bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch stone road-over-river bridge, built c. 1780. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling. Segmental-arched openings, roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, pointed pyramid-capped limestone cut-waters, low rubble stone parapet, roughly dressed copings. Narrow concrete footpath to north side of macadamed road surface. Plastic services pipes attached to south side. Carries main access road from west into village.

• Riverstown School, school, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay by one-bay two-storey stone school, built c. 1890. L-plan one-and-a-half storey return building to north. Hipped slate roof, pitched to return, clay ridge and hip tiles, ashlar limestone two-stage corbelled chimneystack on north wall of main block, extruded aluminium gutters on painted timber overhanging eaves carried on paired painted timber profiled corbels, cast-iron downpipes. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling with evidence of original lime render, tooled squared limestone quoins, open-pedimented gable to return. Square-headed window openings, painted block-and-start brick surrounds, dressed limestone sills, uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening to return, block-and-start brick surround, hardwood vertically-sheeted door c.2002. Set in own grounds on elevated open site in centre of village, wire roadside fence on stone retaining wall to east and south.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey rendered house, built c. 1830, with single-storey extension to rear (east) and hipped roof extension to south both c. 1990. Pitched artificial slate roof, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, extruded aluminium profiled rainwater goods. Painted smooth-rendered walls, recessed plinth, cut limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings, ashlar limestone surrounds, hood-mouldings, limestone sills, painted timber casements c. 1980. Square-headed door opening, ashlar limestone surround, hood-moulding, timber and glazed door screen c. 1980. Street fronted, enclosed yard to rear.

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 Ardkeeran, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1164 (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 Ardkeeran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ardkeeran · Ard Caorthainn

Area

1,272,526 m² (127.25 ha, 314.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 283 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcumber, Ardvarney, Bellanascarva, Carrowcashel, Cooperhill, Cuiltylough, Emlagh

Placenames

Ardkeeran 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.