Ardrea

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardrea, from 63 m² to 136,761 m² (13.68 ha, 33.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ardrea 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.

• 11 Feb 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2030

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 Ardrea.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.6m). An external fosse (Wth 3m; D 1m), which is evident all round, has been widened along the N arc. There is an entrance (Wth 1.4m) at SE with a causeway (Wth 3m) across the fosse. 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

• SL033-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a drumlin. An arc (C 24m) NE-SE of the rath, evident as a scarp (H 1.2m), and an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.4m) encloses the W corner of the field. The remainder of the rath is not visible at ground level. An arc NE-SE is indicated on the 1944 OS 6-inch map as a single line of hachures indicating a rise. 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

• SL033-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.8m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.6m). There is an entrance (Wth 1m) at E with causeway across the fosse. The damp interior is divided by a N-S field boundary. 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

• SL033-194 Crannog
  Description

  At the N edge of Ardrea Lough, a small inter-drumlin lake, and below an earlier shoreline. Land reclamation around the NE shore of the lake in the early 1990s had uncovered large quantities of archaeological material, including two quernstones, worked wood, broken flagstones and animal bones. As a result, a detailed survey of the lakeshore and an excavation of a possible crannog were undertaken by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit in 1992-3 (Moloney 1994, 70-71; Bermingham 1996, 31-3). The possible crannog was first identified as a number of layers of horizontal and longitudinally placed roundwoods overlaying a layer of flagstones; at the lake edge these layers were up to 0.5m deep (Bermingham 1996, 31). These layers were subsequently destroyed due to further reclamation and excavation revealed that underneath them was a layer of gravel in which was a series of posts (max. diam. 0.16m; max. L 1.27m) which may have formed part of an enclosing feature or have functioned as piles over which the stone flag surface had been laid (ibid., 32). Present remains consist of a rectangular area (10m N-S; 26m E-W) in which pieces of worked timbers, animal bones and scattered stones are visible as well as roundwood, brushwood and shells. According to local information, there was a low mound here which was levelled long before the excavation took place. Two fulachtaí fia (SL033-195001-; SL033-195002-) are in the immediate vicinity. 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

• SL033-195001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture, on a slight SSE-facing slope 20m NE of the shore of Ardrea Lough. A drain truncates the E side of a horseshoe-shaped grass-covered mound (15.4m N-S; 10.2m E-W to edge of drain; H 0.35m). An opening (Wth 2m) faces SW toward the lake. No burnt stone or charcoal are visible on the surface of the mound and the sides of the drain are grass-covered. There is a possible fulacht fia (SL033-195002-) immediately to SE and a possible crannog (SL033-194----) in the immediate vicinity. (Bermingham 1996, 31) 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

• SL033-195002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture, on a slight SSE-facing slope 20m NE of the shore of Ardrea Lough. An oval flat-topped grass-covered mound (top 5m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.4m). A fulacht fia (SL033-195001-) lies immediately to NW. There is a possible crannog (SL033-194----) in the immediate vicinity. (Bermingham 1996, 31) 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardrea.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, 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 Ardrea.

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 Ardrea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ardrea · Aird Réidh

Area

637,607 m² (63.76 ha, 157.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmorgan, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Ballymote, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymote electoral division: 2,269 people in 927 households; 64% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigans Upper, Cloonagashel, Lavally

Placenames

Ardrea 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.