Ashfield

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ashfield, from 1,807,513 m² (180.75 ha, 446.65 acres) to 1,807,513 m² (180.75 ha, 446.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ashfield 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.

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  for the (1) conversion of existing dwelling house to staff facilities building. (2) Demolition of existing rear extension and construction of new rear extension. (3) Retention and completion of side extension, and (4) construction of effluent treatment system and all associated services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661249

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Lurgeen Bog/Glenamaddy Turlough SAC 000301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Lurgeen Bog/Glenamaddy Turlough 000301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ashfield.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ashfield.

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 Ashfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ashfield · Gort na bhFuinseog

Area

1,812,345 m² (181.23 ha, 447.84 acres)

Civil parish

Boyounagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Glennamaddy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glennamaddy electoral division: 925 people in 362 households; 71% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Carrowntober East, Cloondoyle More, Cloonlara South, Corramaeeagh, Faartan

Placenames

Ashfield 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.