Ashfield

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashfield, from 154 m² to 172,122 m² (17.21 ha, 42.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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.

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 216.27 sqm & (G) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560730

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, connect to the existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 109.36 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560731

• 12 Oct 2020Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and private garage / fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 250.43 msq, Garage/fuel shed 53.94 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201496

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  of private dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained Dwelling 148.97sqm, Garage 62.74sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181313

• 11 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store, with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter & all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 281.92 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17470

• 23 Jan 2017Conditional

  to construct a children's playground (360 sqm.) mini golf area (400 sqm.) and associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 1746

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 Ashfield.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-004 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Multivallate ringfort On a gentle E-facing slope. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 35m) defined by an inner scarp, two degraded banks and two intervening fosses from NE to SE and from WSW to NW. Two parallel field walls cut the monument at NNE and SSE and NNW and SSW respectively, and no visible surface trace of the monument survives between them. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA060-005 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved oval rath (N-S 39.5m, E-W 34m) defined by two banks and ar/intervening fosse. A gap at E may be original. Apace from SW quadrant where there is a souterrain (GA060-005001-), the interior is disturbed by a series of penannular banks and fosses, probable lazy-beds. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA060-005001 Souterrain
  Description

  In SW quadrant of a ringfort (GA060-005----). A drystone-built rectangular chamber (L 16.8m) running NNE-SSW. The N end has collapsed inwards leaving only the side-walls visible. Access is possible to the roofed section to S from here. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA060-006 Enclosure
  Description

  On a N-facing hillslope. A well- preserved circular rath (D c. 35m) defined by a bank and wide shallow external fosse. A number of gaps are present but all appear to be modern. The interior is flat but largely impenetrable due to dense hazel and briar growth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA060-007 Quarry
  Description

  On the W slope of a hill in undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused quarry pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2014

• GA060-008 Penitential station
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small area of scrub and bushes. Known locally as 'St Patrick's Footprint', it consists of the rough outline of a foot (L 0.32m, Wth 0.13m max.) on the upper face of a flat natural limestone boulder: probably a product of natural erosion. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 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

1,643,134 m² (164.31 ha, 406.03 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Castleblakeney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleblakeney electoral division: 551 people in 197 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanahil, Ballyara, Baunoges, Castleblakeney, Creggaun, Hundredacres, Killaghaun, Lisheen, Moneen, Moyure

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.