Ashfield

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashfield, from 42 m² to 594,868 m² (59.49 ha, 147 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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.

• 29 Jul 2024Conditional

  Construct a new dwelling house with attached garage, treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460448

• 3 Oct 2023Conditional

  retain (i) Dwelling house as constructed, (ii) Domestic garage as constructed (previously granted planning references 01/521 and 03/769) and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360412

• 7 Apr 2022Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, borewell, domestic waste water treatment system (DWWTS), entrance, ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22206

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  demolish existing cottage and agricultural shed, the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic well, waste water treatment system and percolation area, including all associated site and landscape works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21355

• 5 May 2021N/a

  demolish existing cottage and agricultural shed, the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic well, waste water treatment system and percolation area, including all associated site and landscape works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21292

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling, single storey garage, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance & driveway, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19372

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

• LA032-002 Enclosure
  Description

  A subcircular area (diam. c. 27m SE-NW) defined by a low bank at W, and elsewhere by a scarp. Possible entrance at E. No evidence of fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA032-003 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in wet low-lying ground. A rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 47.8m N-S, c. 32m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3.4m; int. H c. 1.2m, ext. H c. 2.1m) and external fosse (Wth c. 4.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA032-004 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a ridge in a very prominent position, nearby stream to E. Marked as a subrectangular enclosure (max. dims. c. 50m N-S; 45m E-W) on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The bank (Wth c. 3.5m, int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 0.9m) and external fosse (Wth c. 2.8m) survive at S. Outline of bank visible at W and N. No other visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Ashfield Hall, house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey Palladian style house with dormer attic, c. 1750, with pedimented advanced entrance bay. Now derelict.

• Ashfield Hall, gate lodge, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Tudor Gothic style gate lodge with dormer attic, c. 1870, with gabled projecting entrance bay, oriel window and box bay window to right. Extended to rear comprising lean-to return. Now derelict.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ashfield, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ashfield.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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. Laois.

Name

Ashfield · Crochta an tSeagail

Area

4,233,726 m² (423.37 ha, 1,046.18 acres)

Civil parish

Killabban, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Arless, the unit of the census

Census 2022

408 people lived in 138 households in the Arless electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagall, Ballynakill, Farnans, Maidenhead, Oldleagh, Rathtillig, Tinnasragh

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.