Ashfield
Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Gleann na bhFuinseog
- Area
- 57.2 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 9,357 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashfield, from 968 m² to 144,359 m² (14.44 ha, 35.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 May 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2649
23 Feb 2026Conditional
the erection of a new bungalow dwelling, connection to a new effluent waste water treatment system and percolation area, the erection of a new domestic garage and all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in relation to the application, and is available for public inspection with the planning application.
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660092
13 Feb 2026N/a
the erection of a new bungalow dwelling, connection to a new effluent waste water treatment system and percolation area, the erection of a new domestic garage and all ancillary site works . A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in relation to the application, and is available for public inspection with the planning application.
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660076
1 Aug 2025N/a
THE ERECTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW DWELLING, CONNECTION TO A NEW EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, THE ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2576
15 Jul 2025N/a
THE ERECTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW DWELLING, CONNECTION TO A NEW EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, THE ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2573
2 Sept 2019Conditional
THE ERECTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH AND THE ERECTION OF A NEW SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19424
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clara Bog SAC 000572
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clara Bog 000572
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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_1905 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ashfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Ashfield · Gleann na bhFuinseog
- Area
- 571,599 m² (57.16 ha, 141.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Durrow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Silverbrook, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Silverbrook electoral division: 822 people in 266 households; 87% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolnahely, Erry (Maryborough), Kilmucklin, Tara
- 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.