Ashgrove
Ashgrove is a townland in the civil parish of Newcastle, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Currach na Mallacht.
- Area
- 184.4 ha
- 456 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 9,179 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashgrove, from 78 m² to 421,390 m² (42.14 ha, 104.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ashgrove 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
5 Aug 2025Conditional
construction a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560770
23 Mar 2023Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2360171
21 Dec 2022Conditional
a change of house type from that previously approved under planning application reference 21/638
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221378
13 May 2021Conditional
erection of a two storey domestic dwelling, domestic garage, front entrance gate and piers and packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and connections to all existing services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21638
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
- LI036-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a slight E-facing slope. Circular area (24.6m N-S; 25.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.4m; Wth 0.95m), with external fosse (D 0.3m) W->E. Field clearance debris has been dumped atop scarp to form bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.8m) WSW->NNW. Fosse most pronounced NNW->E. Entrance (Wth 6m) via ramp across scarped edge at SW. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 23/04/2006.
- LI036-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a slight S-facing slope. Sub-circular area (c. 40m N-S; c. 50m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 2.05m; ext. H 3.2m), with external fosse (D 1.9m; Wth 2.95m) SW->ESE. Stream runs along line of fosse ESE->SW. Interior covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-181 Enclosure
Description
In area of mixed pasture and coniferous forestry, on a slight W-facing slope. Site, indicated by curving field boundary S->NE (diam. c. 30m), is no longer evident though field drain follows line of boundary NW->NE. Interior ploughed and planted with coniferous trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ashgrove, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_410 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ashgrove, Glencairn8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ashgrove · Currach na Mallacht
- Area
- 1,843,540 m² (184.35 ha, 455.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Newcastle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Ardagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,037 people lived in 384 households in the Ardagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinena, Ballyine, Churchtown, Dooally, Dromin (Beesom)
- 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.