# Ardkill, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templeboy, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Ard Chille. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 324,700 m² (32.47 ha, 80.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,724 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templeboy, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/templeboy.md - Barony: Tireragh - Electoral division: Templeboy North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 314 people lived in 112 households in the Templeboy North electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44930 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200045 - Centre: latitude 54.246346, longitude -8.81993 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardkill, from 1,964 m² to 166,707 m² (16.67 ha, 41.19 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5882816: 166,707 m² (16.67 ha, 41.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5882816.md - Parcel 737652: 41,519 m² (4.15 ha, 10.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/737652.md - Parcel 765944: 32,456 m² (3.25 ha, 8.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/765944.md - Parcel 742227: 30,342 m² (3.03 ha, 7.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/742227.md - Parcel 763547: 23,724 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/763547.md - Parcel 769340: 13,485 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769340.md - Parcel 774970: 5,804 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774970.md - Parcel 752333: 2,696 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/752333.md - Parcel 780845: 1,964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/780845.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 13 May 2024, Sligo County Council 2460164: Conditional. Permission. 1) to carry out alterations to the existing clubrooms along with extension into the existing attic space to facilitate a working hub, gym space & sanitary facilities to the first floor, 2) to redevelop the existing picnic area and provide additional car parking spaces, 3) upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system and 4) to carry out ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460164/0 - 30 Sept 2020, Sligo County Council 20337: Conditional. Permission. development consisting of recessing existing roadside boundaries - facilitating the construction of extended carparking/set down area. Proposed works will consist of: (1) the removal of existing front boundary walls; (2) construction of extended car parking/set down area; (3) construction of new recessed boundary wall and pedestrian footpath; (4) carrying out of all associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20337/0 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 Ardkill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - SL012-057: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-057----. Situated on a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular, tree-grown enclosure (diam. c. 25-30m) on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This enclosure has been levelled but remains visible as a slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 15m). This probably represents the remains of a tree-ring rather than a genuine antiquity. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan 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) - Bridge, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 32401203, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SL®no=32401203. Single-span limestone road-over-river bridge, built c. 1800. Squared and roughly coursed rubble stonework, dressed ashlar plain strings at impost and carriageway levels. Segmental-arch, regular tooled ashlar voussoirs arched rock-faced, flanking pilasters, dressed ashlar parapet coping. Bitmac double carriageway, narrow grass verges, rubble stone abutments to all sides. Spans east-west over river. ## 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 Ardkill, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/ardkill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardkill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardkill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardkill 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) - Ballyeeskeen: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballyeeskeen.md - Carrowmacrory: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowmacrory.md - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cartron-200378.md - Cashelboy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cashelboy.md - Doonycoy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonycoy.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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardkill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/ardkill