Ardkill

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardkill, from 104 m² to 98,142 m² (9.81 ha, 24.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 65 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 Ardkill 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.

• 16 Mar 2022N/a

  Retention Permission for development consisting of : The dwelling attic conversion, the domestic garage & general purpose shed and the second entrance together with all ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22148

• 18 Apr 2018Conditional

  the development will consist of: The construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage and an on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system, together with all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18178

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  retention permission for development consisting of retention of extension to existing dwelling at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17393

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 Ardkill.

Recorded monuments

• RO008C021001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 34m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) SW-N, which is reduced to a slight bank (Wth 4-4.5m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 2m) E-SW and replaced by a road wall N-E. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but there is a local tradition of a childrens' burial ground (RO008C021002-) (Gannon 1972). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C021002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In the interior of rath (RO008C021001-). There is a record of its use as a Children's Burial Ground (Gannon 1972), but there is no visbile evidence of this. 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 Ardkill.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Ardkill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ardkill

Area

1,804,230 m² (180.42 ha, 445.83 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballaghaderreen electoral division: 3,254 people in 1,218 households; 58% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnaboy, Boghtaduff, Carrownlacka (Co. Mayo), Cashellahenny (Co. Mayo), Raherolus (Co. Mayo), Skeheen (Co. Mayo)

Placenames

Ardkill 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.