Ballyardan
Townland in the civil parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 51.6 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 2,549 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- P6
- Zone 2
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyardan, from 87 m² to 102,000 m² (10.2 ha, 25.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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
- P6Zone 2 (Other primary sector uses)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Zone 1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Aug 2024Conditional
Retention Permission and Planning Permission as follows: 1) Planning Permission to Retain a) Retail and display building (194.71m2). b) Office (57.72m2). c) Wooden pergola used for storage (20.77m2). d) Machinery store (121.85m2). e) Shed (118.39m2). f) Polytunnel (147.85m2). g) Polytunnel (87.21m2). h) Above ground water storage tank. 2) Planning Permission to a) Amend and extend application site boundaries. b) Install a new on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system and carry out ancillary site works. This site is also the subject of a separate planning application referenced as PD/24/60002, which is being processed concurrently at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460402
22 Dec 2023Conditional
1) Planning Permission to Retain a) Open covered retail and display area with a floor area of 145m2, b) Open covered retail and display area with a floor area of 275m2 and c) Extension as constructed used for retail and display with a floor area of 103m2. 2) Planning Permission to construct an extension with a floor area of 134m2 to existing garden centre incorporating a kitchen, store, staff dining room and toilet together with other associated works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460002
27 Nov 2023N/a
1) Planning Permission to Retain a) Open covered retail and display area with a floor area of 194m2, b) Open covered retail and display area with a floor area of 276m2 and c) Extension as constructed used for retail and display with a floor area of 93m2. 2) Planning Permission to construct an extension to existing garden centre incorporating a kitchen, staff canteen and other associated works with a floor area of 96m2 at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2360234
19 Oct 2022Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the construction of new detached dwelling house & garage, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works & services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22563
1 Jul 2022Refused
Permission for development consisting of the construction of a new detached dwelling house & garage, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22340
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fin Lough (Roscommon) 001636
Recorded monuments
- RO006-053 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 52.5m E-W; 51.2m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 2.4-3.6m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.75-1m) S-W-NE and a scarp (H 0.75-0.9m) elswhere. The outer edge is stone-revetted NW-E-S, but there is no visible fosse or 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 Ballyardan.
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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyardan.
- 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 Ballyardan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyardan
- Area
- 516,342 m² (51.63 ha, 127.59 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, Glebe, Oakport Demesne, Rockingham Demesne, Turlagh
- Placenames
- Ballyardan 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.