Ardmore

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardmore, from 497 m² to 96,656 m² (9.67 ha, 23.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Ardmore 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 Ardmore 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gara 000587

Recorded monuments

• RO005-012037 Settlement platform
  Description

  In 1952 drainage works on the Boyle River lowered the water level of the Lough Gara lakes, and artefacts recovered from crannogs were reported to the National Museum of Ireland. That autumn, Dr. J. Raftery and Miss E. Prendergast of the Museum staff collected artefacts from about 150 crannogs which they noted in the lakes and on the Boyle River. Dr. Raftery permitted Mr. R. E. Cross, the project engineer, to publish a map (1953) based on his own preliminary survey with numbered crannogs, a copy of which is now held in the Department of Archaeology at University College Dublin. During 1953 further drainage work on the river resulted in another reduction of the water level, which revealed numerous cairns on both sides of the river below the outlet from Upper Lough Gara. Dr. Raftery was at that time engaged in excavating crannogs at Rathtinaun (SL047-021----) and Tivannagh (RO005-012003-), but undertook in his free time to supervise an instrument survey of these additional features, which were not expected to survive and which were not properly understood. This mapped survey, from which no artefacts were recovered, is known as the Forsyth survey after one the surveyors, whose name appears on one of the finished maps. It did not necessarily include a revisit of Raftery’s 1952 preliminary survey, and where it did a natural concordance does not always occur. The Forsyth survey is retained in the National Museum of Ireland. This feature is recorded only on the Forsyth survey and is depicted as a small cairn (diam. c. 5m) with a recorded altitude of 219.46 feet above the datum of Poolbeg Lighthouse. It is on the S shore of a WSW-ENE section of the Boyle River above Lough Gara Lower at a point where the river turns N to enter the lake. It is currently in pasture (Bing 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 November, 2017

• RO005-033 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V227/25-6), and situated on the summit of a drumlin. Grass-covered rectangular area (dims 24m ENE-WSW; 21m NNW-SSE) defined by field banks at N and E, an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m) and fosse or ditch (Wth of top 3.3-3.5m; D 0.4-0.7m) at W and the ditch alone at S. Rath (RO005-034----) is 25m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO005-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of the S-facing slope a drumlin. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 31m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at S: Wth 8m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.75-1m) ESE-S which is visible as a grass-covered band (Wth 4.5-6.5m) and scarp (H 0.7-0.8m) elsewhere, and a complete rush-covered fosse (Wth of top 7m at W to 9m generally; Wth of base 4-5m; D 0.1-0.3m). There is no visible entrance. Enclosure (RO005-033----) is c. 25m to the N. 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 Ardmore.

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1207 (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 Ardmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ardmore

Area

1,076,587 m² (107.66 ha, 266.03 acres)

Civil parish

Boyle, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Tivannagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tivannagh electoral division: 267 people in 103 households; 95% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardsallagh, Coolnagranshy, Derrymaquirk, Knockadoo, Knockavroe, Lecarrow

Placenames

Ardmore 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.