Ardass
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 54.8 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 52,205 m² (5.22 ha, 12.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardass, from 1,494 m² to 229,960 m² (23 ha, 56.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardass 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Feb 2026Conditional
Retention Permission for an existing 4-bay slatted cattle house with lie-back pens and an existing 5-bay slatted cattle house with lie-back and calf pens, together with all associated site works. The development is situated within an established agricultural farmyard at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660064
14 Nov 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a slatted cubicle shed and weanling and cow calving shed to tie in with an existing slatted shed with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560539
10 Nov 2025N/a
Permission to construct a slatted cubicle shed and weanling and cow calving shed to tie in with an existing slatted shed with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560529
28 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission for development which will consist of the construction of a 4 bay double, dry bed calf rearing shed together with associated site works. Total floor area of shed is 233.5m² at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560072
25 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission for the proposed replacement of an existing Septic Tank System with an onsite sewerage system with polishing filter in accordance with EPA Code of Practice 2021 and all ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360129
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardass.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardass.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardass.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1140 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ardass
- Area
- 548,401 m² (54.84 ha, 135.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeevin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Castlereagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlereagh electoral division: 3,268 people in 1,240 households; 64% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinphuill, Rathleg, Southpark Demesne, Termon Beg, Termon More
- Placenames
- Ardass 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.