Ashroe

119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashroe, from 250 m² to 257,818 m² (25.78 ha, 63.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Ashroe 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.

• 12 Mar 2024Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural shed for storage purposes together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460213

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460211

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  the site location, site layout plan & as constructed dwelling and garage

  Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2360468

• 6 Dec 2022Conditional

  a new split level single storey dwelling house and domestic garage, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system, including all ancillary site works above and below ground. Permission is also being sought for the demolition of existing cottage and outbuildings

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221304

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a storey and a half dwelling, entrance, treatment unit and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211714

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  a new site entrance to existing dwelling house, including all associated site works above and below ground

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201275

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  2nd floor as constructed in his dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20508

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction of a new single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new entrance, onsite wastewater treatment system, connection to necessary services and all associated incidental works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191156

• 25 Oct 2019N/a

  the construction of a slatted shed, feed passage, ancillary concrete, machinery shed and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191051

• 23 Apr 2019N/a

  the construction of a slatted shed, feed passage, ancillary concrete, machinery shed and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19388

• 22 Mar 2019Conditional

  a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19263

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Area of Conservation: Clare Glen SAC 000930
• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clare Glen 000930

Recorded monuments

• LI007-001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 213) recorded the following details about this doubtful holy well; ‘"Holy Well on 1840 map. Not known in the locality as a holy well. The entry in OSNB reads: "Hollywell? inhabitants. Holy? Is a spring well about 3 feet in diameter '. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 01 July 2019

• LI007-013 Bridge
  Description

  A small humpback single-arched bridge (Wth 5.8m; wall T 0.5m) over the River Clare with roughly cut voussoirs. Evidence of a straight joint on the soffit of the arch indicates that the bridge was widened. The bridge originally measured approx. 2.9m in width. As this bridge links both Limerick and Tipperary counties it is also listed under TN037-034----. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 9 May 2016

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post-box, erected c. 1930, having raised P&T lettering. Set in limestone wall.

• Ashroe House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey over basement house, built c. 1820. Comprising gablets, projecting end bay and recent conservatory to front (south-east) elevation, gablet, projecting end bay and single-bay three-storey extension to rear (north-west) and gable-fronted projecting end bay with box bay window to north-east elevation. Half-hipped and pitched slate roofs having sandstone chimneystacks, timber bargeboards, terracotta ridge crestings and finials. Sandstone walls with limestone and sandstone plinth course and vermiculated limestone quoins. Limestone cornice to box bay window. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to projecting end bays, front and rear elevations. Square-headed openings having cut limestone block-and-start surrounds, sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed tripartite opening to south-west elevation with limestone block-and-start surrounds, sill, mullions, transom and stained glass windows. Square-headed quadripartite opening to box bay window having limestone block-and-start surrounds, sill, mullions, transom and fixed windows. Square-headed opening obscured by recent conservatory, with limestone block-and-start surround and replacement uPVC door. Square-headed opening to rear elevation having cut limestone block-and-start surround, replacement uPVC overlight, door and sidelights. Flight of brick and concrete steps to entrance with render balustrades. Multiple-bay single-storey U-plan range of outbuildings to north-west. Pitched slate roofs. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and timber casement windows. Those to south-east elevation having red brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Those to south-east elevation having red brick block-and-start surrounds. Elliptical-headed integral carriage arches with red brick block-and-start surrounds and keystones. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west having corrugated-iron roof. Rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed openings with metal doors. Three-bay double-height outbuilding to south-east having external rubble limestone stairs. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron roof lights. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings having limestone sills and remains of six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Rubble sandstone wall adjoining house to south-west having brick bellcote and elliptical-headed carriage arch with dressed sandstone voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened door. Walled garden to south-west having rubble sandstone walls. Round-headed opening with dressed sandstone voussoirs and timber battened door. Pair of square-profile ashlar sandstone piers to south-east having carved caps and double-leaf metal gates. Dressed sandstone boundary walls to site.

• Clare Bridge, bridge, 1750–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked road bridge over Clare River, built c.1770 and widened 1820, with rubble limestone walls and roughly-dressed limestone voussoirs to parabolic arch. Bridge shows evidence of widening. Pedestrian gates set in wall near bridge.

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 moderately high, 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_1170 (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.

No address of the register names Ashroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ashroe · Ais Rua

Area

3,237,800 m² (323.78 ha, 800.08 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Glenstal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenstal electoral division: 1,240 people in 383 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Boarmanshill, Cappanahanagh, Clonbunny (Co. Tipperary), Clonsingle (Co. Tipperary), Puckane, Rossary Beg (Co. Tipperary), Rossary More (Co. Tipperary), Scraggeen (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Ashroe 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.