Ardconra

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardconra, from 218 m² to 134,038 m² (13.4 ha, 33.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardconra 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ardconra 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 the townland of Ardconra.

Recorded monuments

• RO006-166 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular feature (diam. c. 10m), and situated towards the top of the N-facing slope of a small NE-SW ridge. Described locally as a small circular earthen mound which was removed in the 1960s (Gannon 1972). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO006-167----) is c. 25m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-167 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just off the crest of the NE-facing slope of a small NE-SW ridge. Circular overgrown area (diam. 30m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-4.8m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 1m) S-W and a scarp (H 0.5-1m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.7m; D 0.1m) W-NW. There is no visible entrance. Earthwork (RO006-166----) is c. 25m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-170 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a rise. Circular grass-covered but poached area (int. diam. 39m E-W; 38m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.85m at S to 3.7m at N; int. H 0.05m generally to 0.55m at N; ext. H 0.2m at S to 0.5m at N) SE-NE with intermittently visible facing-stones (original Wth 1.9m). There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter has been quarried at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-175 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the N end of a steep-sided NE-SW ridge with SW-NE streams c. 100m to the NW and SE. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. c. 50m) defined by the foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 1.6-2m; int. H 0.05-0.1m; ext. H 0.5m generally to 1.25m at W). There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_1396 (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.

No address of the register names Ardconra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ardconra

Area

773,527 m² (77.35 ha, 191.14 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcarn, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Rockingham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rockingham electoral division: 339 people in 134 households; 88% of households own their home; 14% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcarn, Farranagalliagh East, Garrowlougher, Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Lisgreaghan, Lismulkeare, Rinn, Usna

Placenames

Ardconra 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.