Ardagh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardagh, from 464 m² to 230,569 m² (23.06 ha, 56.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ardagh 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.

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY REAR EXTENSION (AREA 112 SQM) TO DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22909

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 Ardagh.

Recorded monuments

• MA039-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a field of level pasture, close to the SW boundary of the townland. The E side of the field is bordered by a N-S road. This possible rath is shown on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as a circular ringfort-like enclosure (diam. c. 25-30m). It was levelled in the 1980’s; there is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019

• MA039-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low, roughly N–S elevation, with good views. This possible rath is shown on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as a circular ringfort-like enclosure (diam. c. 20m). It has been levelled; a slight undulation in the field surface indicates it location. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019

• MA039-010 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012

• MA039-015001 Church
  Description

  Located in the SW quadrant of a graveyard (MA039-015002-). A ruined medieval church (6.1m N-S; 13.3m E-W) on a WNW-ESE alignment, constructed of medium-sized random mortared limestone rubble. When inspected in 1996, the W gable (H 3.1m; Wth 1.2m) survived relatively intact, the N and S walls (Wth 0.8m) stood to a height of 1.3m, but only low remnants of the E gable (max. H 0.4m) survived. The basal courses of the walls incorporated a number of large blocks, with one particularly large, upright slab at the SW corner of the W gable. There was a break (Wth c. 2m) towards the W end of the S wall which probably marked the location of a doorway. In 2008/09 unauthorized works took place at the church during an graveyard clean-up scheme. The walls were heavily pointed with cement mortar. The top of the W gable was rebuilt and the top of the N and S walls squared off and cemented over. The low remnants of the E gable were used as a foundation for a reconstruction of that wall to a height of c. 2m, incorporating three pointed arched alcoves, which bare no relation to the original form of the wall. As a consequence, details of the original fabric of the wall are now largely concealed, and the church is no longer recognisable as a medieval structure. Within the church, three contiguous grave plots, roughly outlined by settings of low stones, abut the inner face of the S wall, and a grave covered by two horizontal stone slabs and marked by an headstone with an 18th-century inscription, abuts the N wall towards its E end. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• MA039-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on top of a hill, with excellent views in all directions of the surrounding pastureland. The roughly square graveyard (36.8m E-W; c. 36m N-S) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall (Wth 0.4m; H 1.2m), probably 18th/19th-century in date. In the second half of the 20th-century the N wall and the N end of the W wall were removed to allow a modern expansion of the graveyard to N. The line of the removed walls is still evident as a cropmark of thicker vegetation growth. There is a ruined medieval church (MA039-015001-) in the SW quadrant. The greatest density of graves is to S and E of the church where 18th- and 19th-century graveslabs and headstones are interspersed with numerous low uninscribed informal stone grave markers, many arranged in N-S rows. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 March 2018

• MA039-015003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Located in the NE quadrant of a graveyard (MA039-015002-). This bullaun stone consists of an irregular boulder (L 0.58m; Wth 0.4-0.56m; H 0.28m) with a shallow depression (diam. 0.25m) on one surface. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 March 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardagh.

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 Ardagh, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_359 (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 Ardagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ardagh · Ardach

Area

792,168 m² (79.22 ha, 195.75 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Carrowmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

896 people lived in 323 households in the Carrowmore electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooneigh, Cloonyarigaun, Crannagh, Garrycloonagh, Gortatogher, Knockfree

Placenames

Ardagh 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.