Ardaloo

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardaloo, from 265 m² to 202,609 m² (20.26 ha, 50.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ardaloo 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.

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, covered carport, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, private bore well together with all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22160

• 26 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, private borewell, septic tank and percolation area together with all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18714

• 14 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house, provision of a new treatment plant and percolation area, domestic garage, new bore hole well, utilizing existing shared vehicular site entrance with access to roadway and all associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17828

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ardaloo Fen 000821

Recorded monuments

• KK014-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m N-S; c. 29m E-W). It is not indicated on the 1946-7 OS 6-inch map revision which suggests the monument was levelled before 1947. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 May 2020

• KK014-029 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In the angle formed by the junction of the rivers Nore and Dinin. A broad high gravel ridge terminates a little before the river confluence. It slopes very steeply on its E and S side down to the river flood plain and rather more gently down to the Nore on the W. The upper and W side of the ridge is largely reclaimed pasture. From the top of the ridge there are very fine views in all directions. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 208), 'One hundred and ten yards north of the above church, is the castle of Ardaloo. The people say it was the residence of the monks attending the church. It is 37 ft. [c. 11.3m] by 30 ft. [c. 9m] externally. The north wall is 5 ft. [c. 1.5m] thick; the side walls, on which rested the stone arch over the first storey, are 8 [c. 2.4m] or 9 ft. [c. 2.7m] thick. The fragment now remaining has three very narrow loops, and is but 17 ft. high. A narrow passage, between two parallel walls, 30 yds. [c. 27.5m] long, runs south from the castle, connecting it, at the end, with other buildings, the foundations of which are yet visible'. The castle, depicted on the 1st (1839) 6-inch OS map and subsequent 1946-7 revision, is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 December 2016

• KK014-030001 Church
  Description

  In the angle formed by the junction of the rivers Nore and Dinin. A broad high gravel ridge terminates a little before the river confluence. It slopes very steeply on its E and S side down to the river flood plain and rather more gently down to the Nore on the W. The upper and W side of the ridge is largely reclaimed pasture. From the top of the ridge there are very fine views in all directions. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 208) noted that, 'At a distance of 160 yds. [c. 146m] north of the church [KK014-031----] already described, 120 yds. [c. 109m] due east of the castle [KK014-029----], and 80 yds. [c. 73m] from the Dinin, stood the most ancient church called Thomple-Glhozheen [probably Teampall Ghlasín which translates as the church of the little stream]. The people say it was "the second church named in Rome," an expression never used except in reference to our oldest churches. It, too, was built on a limestone bed, elevated 16 or 20 feet over the adjacent river. it stood east and west and was of considerable dimensions. Its walls, where highest, are now not more than one foot over the surface, but a very little excavation would suffice to lay bare the whole foundation of the sacred structure. Around it lies the ancient churchyard [KK014-030002-], but interments have been discontinued since about 1770. There are no head-stones or appearances of graves. Formerly people used to gather here on Good Friday to pray and pilgrim'. The church is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 June 2020

• KK014-030002 Graveyard
  Description

  In the angle formed by the junction of the rivers Nore and Dinin. A broad high gravel ridge terminates a little before the river confluence. It slopes very steeply on its E and S side down to the river flood plain and rather more gently down to the Nore on the W. The upper and W side of the ridge is largely reclaimed pasture. From the top of the ridge there are very fine views in all directions. Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 208) noted that, 'At a distance of 160 yds. [c. 146m] north of the church [KK014-031----] already described, 120 yds. [c. 109m] due east of the castle [KK014-029----], and 80 yds. [c. 73m] from the Dinin, stood the most ancient church [KK014-030001-], called Thomple-Glhozheen. The people say it was "the second church named in Rome," an expression never used except in reference to our oldest churches. It, too, was built on a limestone bed, elevated 16 or 20 feet over the adjacent river. it stood east and west and was of considerable dimensions. Its walls, where highest, are now not more than one foot over the surface, but a very little excavation would suffice to lay bare the whole foundation of the sacred structure. Around it lies the ancient churchyard, but interments have been discontinued since about 1770. There are no head-stones or appearances of graves. Formerly people used to gather here on Good Friday to pray and pilgrim'. The graveyard is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 June 2020

• KK014-031 Church
  Description

  In the angle formed by the junction of the rivers Nore and Dinin. A broad high gravel ridge terminates a little before the river confluence. It slopes very steeply on its E and S side down to the river flood plain and rather more gently down to the Nore on the W. The upper and W side of the ridge is largely reclaimed pasture. From the top of the ridge there are very fine views in all directions. Ardaloo was a grange of the Augustinian Priory of Kells (KK027-029004-), which lies c. 19km to the S (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 207-8; Clyne 2007, 33-5). Carrigan (ibid. 207) gives the history as follows, ‘In 1203, William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, granted and confirmed to the Priory of Kells, in pure and perpetual alms, two carucates of land in Ardelouth. The land thus granted was leased by Reginald, the first Prior, to Simon fitz John Layles, but was restored by Simon’s son, William fitz Simon, to Prior Germanus, by deed of Dec. 24th, 1267. The church of Ardeluth is mentioned among the churches included in the Deanery of Odoch, in a Taxation of Ossory drawn up about 1300. In 1412 the chapel (capella) of Ardelooth was confirmed to the Priory of Kells, by King Henry IV. In 1540, Philip Howleghan, the last Prior, was seised, inter alia, of “three messuages, fifty acres of arable land and twenty of pasture, with the appurtenances, in Ardeloghe.” Thomas, Earl of Ormond, received a grant of Ardelowe from the Crown in 1578’. Only the SW angle (W gable L 1-1.65m; S wall 2-2.55m; H 2-2.4m) of a rectangular roughly coursed rubble limestone church (dims. c. 12m x 7.6m; wall T c. 0.76m), orientated E-W, survives upstanding. According to Carrigan (ibid. 208), ‘The part of the south side-wall still standing, is supported by a buttress extending along its full length; another buttress supported the east end of the same wall, and though the wall itself is here fallen, the buttress remains uninjured. The entrance door, framed with unhewn stones, was in the south side-wall, between the buttresses, but only one side of it is left. This church is called “The Monastery Church”’. The buttresses mentioned by Carrigan are probably a base-batter. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch cast-iron railway bridge over river, opened 1865. Closed, 1963. Rock-faced limestone ashlar piers with rock-faced cut-limestone coping supporting riveted cast-iron girder span having cast-iron parapets with cast-iron coping. Sited spanning Dinin River with overgrown grass banks to river.

• Dinin Bridge, bridge, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge over river, built 1792. Random cut-limestone walls with cut-limestone triangular cut-waters to piers, and cut-limestone coping to parapets. Series of three elliptical arches with cut-limestone voussoirs, and rendered soffits. Sited spanning Dinin River with grass banks to river.

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 Ardaloo, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Ardaloo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Ardaloo · Ard Lú

Area

1,613,146 m² (161.31 ha, 398.62 acres)

Civil parish

Grangemaccomb, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Odagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

486 people lived in 161 households in the Odagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarran Little, Dunmore West, Jenkinstown, Kirwan's Inch, Suttonsrath, Threecastles Demesne

Placenames

Ardaloo 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.