# Ardabrone, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Skreen, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Ard na Brón.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 835,273 m² (83.53 ha, 206.4 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,299 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Skreen, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/skreen.md
- Barony: Tireragh
- Electoral division: Toberpatrick West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 306 people lived in 115 households in the Toberpatrick West electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44971
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200034
- Centre: latitude 54.255448, longitude -8.693001 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardabrone, from 327 m² to 142,701 m² (14.27 ha, 35.26 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 729366: 142,701 m² (14.27 ha, 35.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/729366.md
- Parcel 5522912: 137,023 m² (13.7 ha, 33.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522912.md
- Parcel 772015: 82,162 m² (8.22 ha, 20.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/772015.md
- Parcel 747957: 61,593 m² (6.16 ha, 15.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/747957.md
- Parcel 728004: 59,850 m² (5.98 ha, 14.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/728004.md
- Parcel 778508: 58,408 m² (5.84 ha, 14.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/778508.md
- Parcel 5420279: 45,461 m² (4.55 ha, 11.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5420279.md
- Parcel 745258: 41,222 m² (4.12 ha, 10.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/745258.md
- Parcel 4986034: 40,946 m² (4.09 ha, 10.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4986034.md
- Parcel 730649: 37,064 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730649.md
- Parcel 777592: 33,931 m² (3.39 ha, 8.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/777592.md
- Parcel 765947: 23,946 m² (2.39 ha, 5.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/765947.md
- Parcel 775613: 15,756 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775613.md
- Parcel 740293: 7,265 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740293.md
- Parcel 763552: 6,005 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/763552.md
- Parcel 743779: 5,342 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/743779.md
- Parcel 760352: 5,299 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760352.md
- Parcel 737661: 5,013 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/737661.md
- Parcel 752884: 4,254 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/752884.md
- Parcel 2976378: 2,896 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2976378.md
- Parcel 734007: 2,878 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734007.md
- Parcel 2406489: 2,591 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2406489.md
- Parcel 754157: 2,579 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/754157.md
- Parcel 774583: 2,558 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774583.md
- Parcel 727594: 1,838 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/727594.md
- Parcel 6168985: 1,630 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6168985.md
- Parcel 752239: 1,254 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/752239.md
- Parcel 756604: 1,226 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/756604.md
- Parcel 742232: 969 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/742232.md
- Parcel 735192: 700 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/735192.md
- Parcel 758745: 532 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/758745.md
- Parcel 5276286: 351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5276286.md
- Parcel 5276285: 327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5276285.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ardabrone in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 29 Jun 2026, Sligo County Council 2660256: N/a. Permission. Conversion of existing outbuildings to living accommodation and construction of a porch between the existing dwelling and the outbuildings to form one residential unit, construction of a bedroom extension, general internal reordering of the existing dwelling, conservation repairs and building fabric upgrades including replacement of windows and doors and all associated drainage and site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660256/0
- 19 Dec 2024, Sligo County Council 2460493: Conditional. Permission. to construct new detached single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewerage treatment system, percolation area, including all other ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460493/0
- 11 Apr 2022, Sligo County Council 22128: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. development consisting of construction of a new dwelling house as a replacement for previously demolished fire-damaged dwelling. Works will include the upgrade of existing septic tank and percolation area and the carrying out of all associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22128/0
- 15 Jul 2019, Sligo County Council 19289: Conditional. Permission. Development consisting of the construction of Proprietary Wastewater Treatment System and Percolation area (PL09/556 refers). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/19289/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardabrone.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL013-048001: Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-048001-. On a slight rise in good, rough pasture, E of Ardnaglass bridge and N of the main Ballysadare-Easky road with excellent views. Named 'Ardnaglass Castle' on the 1913 OS 6-inch map. Apparently built by the O'Dowds, the Lords of Tireragh. Rectangular castle, (int. dims. c. 32m NW-SE; 21m W-E) aligned NW-SE of which only the SE wall (L 15.3m; H 8-10m) and a corner portion of the NW wall survive. The SE wall has a neatly angular corner champfer on the SW end and on the W end of the wall framing the corner is a solid machicolation projection supported by massy brackets, with an intact gun loop at W. The walls are slightly battered (T 1.35m), the basal plinth acting as a supporting buttress and have an ashlar finish covering a fabric of random rubble and lime mortar. Over the plinth batter is a central window with ashlar surround with a gun loop to E. The ground rises to the NE where the sod-covered remains of the wall may indicate the remains of a bastion-type entrance. The N corner of the NW wall survives, with precisely cut quoins and a similar machicolated projection facing N. To the W are a series of earthworks (SL013-048002-), to the S is a house site (SL013-048003-), to SW is a moated site (SL013-048005-). The castle was the original location of a stone sculpture (DU018-221---- ) which is now in the National Museum of Ireland . It consists of a bas-relief of two intertwined animals, interpreted as a dog killing a wolf (Wood-Martin 1882, 57, fig. 5A; Kilgannon 1926, 293; 292-3). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-048003: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-048003-. In rough pasture S of Ardabrone Castle (SL013-048001-). The foundation of a 3 roomed house. The rooms are set in line, aligned N-S, and defined by banks. The N room is subrectangular (int. dims. 7.2m E-W; 5.5m N-S). The middle room is rectangular (int. dims. 4.5m N-S) and the S room is L-shaped and open at S. A number of banks run off the site. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-048005: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-048005-. In rough pasture W of Ardabrone Castle (SL013-048001-). Rectangular raised area (29.7m E-W; 39.4m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank with characteristic high corners, which has been completely removed at S and W, a low counterscarp, which survives at E and an intervening fosse which can be seen at E. The moated site is bisected at N by an E-W field wall. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1994).
- SL013-049001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-049001-. Situated on slight SSW facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised, subrectangular area (20m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. A break (Wth 4m) in the bank at NW marks the position of the original entrance. A slightly curved length of a low NW-SE orientated earth and stone bank (L 6m; Wth 3.6m; H 0.3m) extends from the outer face of the enclosure bank immediately to the S of the entrance. In the NE corner of the interior against the internal face of the bank is a quarry hole (4m square; D 0.2m). Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-051: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-051----. Situated on slight SE facing slope in pasture. The site has largely been levelled. Remains comprise roughly circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.4m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. The majority of the bank has been levelled and what remains is preserved beneath a drystone field wall NE-SE. The surviving bank is revetted with large limestone boulders on the interior. The line of the levelled bank is visible as a slight broad inward facing scarp (int. H 0.3m) SW-NW and the enclosing element is not visible SE-SW. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-052: Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-052----. On gentle S sloping ground in rolling pasture. A chamber (int. dims. 2.53m N-S; 1.52m E-W) with 6 surviving stones, but lacking a backstone and roofstone (Ó Nualláin 1983, 100, No. 3; Ó Nualláin 1989, 28-9). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
- SL013-055001: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-055001-. Situated on slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank of rubble limestone (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.4m). The original entrance is not recognisable. There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank is made of rubble limestone with frequent larger boulders throughout. No extant portions of walling are visible and the bank is denuded and spread out in all areas. A souterrain (SL013-055002-) runs under the bank at NW. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-055002: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-055002-. Located under the bank on NW side of Ardabrone cashel (SL013-055001-). Immediately outside the souterrain entrance, within cashel bank is a roughly semi-circular (2m NE-SW; 1.6m NW-SE; H 1.3m) walled area with the opening facing SE. The unmortared rubble limestone walling arches gently inwards at the top and is covered by a large limestone capstone (dims. 1.7m2; T 0.4m). The lintelled entrance (Wth 1.1m; H 0.3m) to the souterrain is located at the base of the wall on the SW side. The passage is orientated E-W and extends for 1.7m behind the entrance and is then blocked by what appears to be collapsed material. The sides of the passage are lined with unmortared limestone rubble walling. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-056: Barrow - mound barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-056----. Situated on a slight SW-facing slope in gently rolling pasture. Circular mound of earth and stone (diam. of base; 13m; diam. top 1.6m; H 1.7m). The mound is roughly conical in shape. There is no fosse visible at ground level Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-057001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-057001-. Situated on slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised, circular area (dims. 39m N-S; 40 E-W) enclosed by an internal bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.15m; int. H 0.4m). From SSE-S-W and at E there is an external bank of earth and stone (Wth1.8m; H 0.4m). From SSE-S-W and at E, a fosse (Wth 2.8m) survives between internal and external bank. A break (Wth 3.5m) in the internal bank at SE with a partial causeway across the fosse marks the position of the original entrance. The site is divided into two portions by a gently curving E-W orientated drystone field wall that crosses the internal bank at W and ESE. A small quarry lies to S of centre in the interior with another within internal bank at NE. A souterrain (SL013-057003-) is located immediately to S of centre in the interior within the quarried area on the N side of the dividing wall. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-057003: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-057003-. Located to S of centre in the interior of Ardnabrone rath (SL013-057001-) within a small quarried out area (dims. 6m N-S; 8m E-W; D 0.8m). A large lintel consisting a rectangular limestone slab (L 2.65m E-W; Wth 1m; T 0.25m) has been exposed. The first entrance (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m) to the souterrain faces S and lies 0.7m to the N of the mid point of the exposed lintel. The second entrance (Wth 1.2m; H 0.15m) to the souterrain faces E and lies under the W end of the exposed lintel. Both entrances are too narrow to allow access to the passage. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-058: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL013-058----. Situated on a slight S-facing slope in pasture. Slightly raised, roughly circular area (diam. 11m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.45m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. At ESE there is a wide break in the bank (Wth 5m). Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Stand House, house, 1810–1850, Regional interest, registry number 32401305, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SL&regno=32401305. Detached multi-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830. Flat-roofed single-storey porch projects to west side of front elevation, single-storey extension to west. Steeply pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystack rising from south elevation, half-round cast-iron gutters, cast-iron downpipe. Unpainted roughcast walling, smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, limestone sills, hardwood casement windows c. 1990. Square-headed door opening to porch, painted timber door c. 1990. Road fronted on corner site. Barn with external stone steps on gable to south-east corner of site.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ardabrone, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardabrone.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardabrone.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardabrone.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardabrone.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ardabrone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Carrowgilhooly: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowgilhooly.md
- Carrownaboll: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrownaboll.md
- Carrownree: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrownree-200351.md
- Carrowreagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowreagh-200371.md
- Gerrib Little: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gerrib-little.md
- Sheeanmore: https://everytownland.com/sligo/sheeanmore.md
- Soodry: https://everytownland.com/sligo/soodry.md
- Toberpatrick: https://everytownland.com/sligo/toberpatrick.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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