# Ashfield, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Gleann na bhFuinseog. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 571,599 m² (57.16 ha, 141.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,357 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Durrow, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/durrow.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Silverbrook, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42268 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180039 - Centre: latitude 53.324491, longitude -7.574867 (WGS 84) ## 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); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 294921: 144,359 m² (14.44 ha, 35.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294921.md - Parcel 310130: 108,436 m² (10.84 ha, 26.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310130.md - Parcel 308037: 80,468 m² (8.05 ha, 19.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308037.md - Parcel 311373: 36,182 m² (3.62 ha, 8.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311373.md - Parcel 297070: 31,441 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297070.md - Parcel 279045: 29,535 m² (2.95 ha, 7.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279045.md - Parcel 288930: 24,881 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288930.md - Parcel 274137: 20,664 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274137.md - Parcel 279539: 19,058 m² (1.91 ha, 4.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279539.md - Parcel 289731: 12,517 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289731.md - Parcel 5339917: 9,371 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5339917.md - Parcel 277365: 9,342 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277365.md - Parcel 312627: 9,093 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312627.md - Parcel 292035: 7,758 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292035.md - Parcel 5469628: 3,919 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5469628.md - Parcel 310456: 3,245 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310456.md - Parcel 302228: 3,140 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302228.md - Parcel 279020: 2,928 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279020.md - Parcel 5665500: 2,575 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5665500.md - Parcel 284146: 2,055 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284146.md - Parcel 282347: 1,359 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282347.md - Parcel 5373520: 968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5373520.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 26 May 2026, Offaly County Council 2649: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/ETS, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2649/0 - 23 Feb 2026, Offaly County Council 2660092: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660092/0 - 13 Feb 2026, Offaly County Council 2660076: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660076/0 - 1 Aug 2025, Offaly County Council 2576: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2576/0 - 15 Jul 2025, Offaly County Council 2573: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2573/0 - 2 Sept 2019, Offaly County Council 19424: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19424/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Clara Bog SAC, site code 000572, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000572 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clara Bog, site code 000572 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ashfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ashfield. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1905.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ashfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ashfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ashfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coolnahely: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolnahely.md - Erry (Maryborough): https://everytownland.com/offaly/erry-maryborough.md - Kilmucklin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmucklin.md - Tara: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tara.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ashfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/ashfield