Ardenagh Little
Townland in the civil parish of Taghmon, barony of Shelmaliere West, Co. Wexford; in Irish Ardeanach Beag
- Area
- 123.9 ha
- 306 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 5,207 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardenagh Little, from 61 m² to 138,209 m² (13.82 ha, 34.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ardenagh Little 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed construction of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251245
11 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250976
24 Sept 2024N/a
Permission of retention for existing works and full permission for ongoing
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241153
30 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling and associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240905
22 May 2024Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling and associated
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240574
23 Apr 2024N/a
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling and associated site
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240447
28 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO FILL PROPOSED SITE WITH CLEAN STONE, SUBSOIL AND TOPSOIL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170823
12 Jun 2017N/a
PERMISSION TO FILL PROPOSED SITE WITH CLEAN STONE, SUBSOIL AND TOPSOIL, RESEED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170730
31 May 2017N/a
PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO FILL PROPOSED SITE WITH CLEAN STONE, SUBSOIL AND TOPSOIL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170670
17 May 2017N/a
PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO FILL PROPOSED SITE WITH CLEAN STONE, SUBSOIL AND TOPSOIL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170603
10 May 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170574
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardenagh Little.
Recorded monuments
- WX041-017 Church
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1925 Eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as Church in ruins on both. It is located on a small SE-NW spur and is just on the N side of an E-W section of a minor N-S road. Sections of the N and S walls (max. L 5m; max. H 1.2m) 6.1m apart and faint traces of other walls to the E (total L 10.5m) survive. There is no evidence of burial or of an enclosure in an area with some mature trees. The site of Tober Shivaun (WX041-018----) is c. 280m to the N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 19 March, 2013
- WX041-018 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1925 Eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as Tober Shivaun. It is situated on a gentle N-facing slope and is described locally as a circular hollow defined by stones with steps leading down to it. It went dry after land drainage and was filled in c. 1985. There is no evidence of the well or that it was ever venerated, and there is no local knowledge of veneration. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013
- WX041-054 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP, WX 106, 16-18). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 19 March, 2013
- WX041-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a slight N-facing slope. The cropmark of an enclosure (diam. c. 65m) defined by a single fosse feature with a narrow entrance gap at NE is visible on digital aerial photographs (WX041-065_1 to _5). It is also faintly visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2005). WX041-065----_1.jpg from W Compiled by: Micahel Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. Occupied, 1990. In ruins, 2002. "Restored", 2006. For sale, 2009. Replacement hipped or hipped gabled oat thatch roof overhanging gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic with exposed hazel lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered off-central dwarf chimney stack having shallow capping supporting terracotta pots, and exposed hazel stretchers to eaves having exposed scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls on rendered "bas-relief" plinth with rusticated rendered "bas-relief" piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road in courtyard with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having shallow conical capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".
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 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardenagh Little.
- 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 Ardenagh Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ardenagh Little · Ardeanach Beag
- Area
- 1,239,327 m² (123.93 ha, 306.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghmon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Electoral division
- Ballymitty, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymitty electoral division: 583 people in 210 households; 87% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardenagh Great, Coolcull Big, Coolraheen, Knocknamarshal, Knocktarton, Slevoy, Tracystown West, Upton
- Placenames
- Ardenagh Little 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.