Ardcree

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ardcree, from 49,398 m² (4.94 ha, 12.21 acres) to 49,398 m² (4.94 ha, 12.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 1 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ardcree 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 Ardcree 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 Ardcree.

Recorded monuments

• SL026-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On level elevated ground, in a large open pasture field bordered by forestry plantation to the W, N and NE. A very slightly raised subcircular area (34m NW-SE; c. 36m NE-SW) defined by a slight scarp (H c. 0.6m) that slumps into a shallow external fosse (Wth c. 3m; D 0.3m). The scarp is very poorly defined. The fosse survives as a shallow depression, barely discernible in parts to SW and N-NE. At NNW a small quarry pit (Wth 6m) cuts across the line of the fosse. The interior is crossed on a NW-SE axis by four parallel, clearly defined, linear banks (Wth 3-3.6m, H 0.5m) set c. 3m apart. They occupy most of the available interior space and appear to represent ridge and furrow cultivation, levelled traces of which can also be seen in the surrounding field. Remnants of linear field boundaries and part of a levelled rectilinear field system that postdate the rath, clip the outer edge of the fosse at SE and SW. There is another rath (SL026-044----) visible on the top of the hill to NW. O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 66-7) suggests that a fort, known locally as 'Ardcree-fort' and within a thousand yards of Ardcree bridge, was possibly the site of the 'castle of Rath-Ard-creeve' which was burned by Hugh O'Connor in 1265. It is not certain to which of the three forts (SL026-088----; SL026-089----) in the townland O'Rorke was referring. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL026-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge. A circular area (int. diam. 27m) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) is best preserved along the S and W arcs. The fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1m) is best preserved along the S arc. Mature birch trees grow on the rath. There is another rath (SL026-089----) c. 50m to the S. O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 66-7) suggests that a fort, known locally as 'Ardcree-fort' and within a thousand yards of Ardcree bridge, was possibly the site of the 'castle of Rath-Ard-creeve' which was burned by Hugh O'Connor in 1265. It is not certain to which of the three forts (SL026-087----; SL026-089----) in the townland O'Rorke was referring. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL026-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a W-facing slope. A circular platform (diam. 32.5m; H 1.2m) with a gently sloping top. The base of the platform is enclosed by a shallow fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m). There is another rath (SL026-088----) c. 50m to the N. O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 66-7) suggests that a fort, known locally as 'Ardcree-fort' and within a thousand yards of Ardcree bridge, was possibly the site of the 'castle of Rath-Ard-creeve' which was burned by Hugh O'Connor in 1265. It is not certain to which of the three forts (SL026-087----; SL026-088----) in the townland O'Rorke was referring. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL026-172 Bridge
  Description

  A road bridge (on a NW-SE axis; Wth 5.8m) over the Owenmore River and on the edge of the demesne of the late 17th-century Annaghmore house (SL026-049----). On the upstream side are seven low pointed segmental arches (span c. 2.5m) with shaped voussoirs. The downstream arches appear to be repaired in parts with concrete and underneath the arches have recently been heavily underpinned. Piers (Wth c. 2m) with pointed cutwaters on the upstream side form large V-shaped refuge niches in the parapet wall. There are low pointed concrete cutwaters on the downstream side. The bridge is medieval in appearance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Annaghmore House, gate lodge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey-with-attic rendered former gate lodge, built c. 1870, now derelict. L-plan, single-storey lean-to entrance porch to west, oriel window to attic east elevation. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack with yellow clay pots, deeply overhanging painted timber eaves and verges on paired timber corbels, remnants of fretted painted timber bargeboards, cast-iron downpipe. Unpainted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth-rendered hood mouldings, dressed limestone sills, painted diamond-paned timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening in lean-to, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Located at southern end of Annaghmore estate in rural setting, low rubble stone boundary wall to the road, decorative wrought-iron gate (damaged).

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

At the centre of the townland of Ardcree, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1010 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ardcree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ardcree · Ard Craoibhe

Area

698,374 m² (69.84 ha, 172.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilvarnet, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Annagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

200 people lived in 74 households in the Annagh electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh More, Annaghmore, Cloonacurra, Ranaghan More, Rathmore

Placenames

Ardcree 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.