Ashgrove
Townland in the civil parish of Mallow, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Garrán na Fuinseoige
- Area
- 41.3 ha
- 102 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 4,144 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashgrove, from 1,043 m² to 579,996 m² (58 ha, 143.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to widen existing vehicular access, construct a domestic garage in the rear garden of existing dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6983
25 Nov 2016Refused
A two storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, bored well and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6941
31 May 2006Refused
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/7694
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 Ashgrove.
Recorded monuments
- CO033-084 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Discovered in 1986 during construction of Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 179, site 1/23/3; pers. comm. M. Gowen). Several features revealed in area 4m x 3m: hearth (0.4m x 0.4m; D 0.05m) filled with charcoal-rich soil; pit (0.8m x 0.5m; D 0.18m) filled with charcoal-rich clay; two post-holes (diam. 0.18m; D 0.18m: diam. 0.2m; D 0.13m) just W of hearth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ashgrove.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_941 (ZIP).
- 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 Ashgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ashgrove · Garrán na Fuinseoige
- Area
- 412,547 m² (41.25 ha, 101.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mallow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Mallow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mallow Rural electoral division: 5,045 people in 1,684 households; 62% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curraghanearla, Dromsligo, Kilknockan, Lackanalooha, Lodge
- Placenames
- Ashgrove 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.