Ashwood Upper
Ashwood Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgorman, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Ó gCuilinn Uachtarach.
Parcel 378206
- Area
- 13,377 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ashwood Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3297 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 67.7 ha
- 167 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 8,442 m² (0.84 ha, 2.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashwood Upper, from 323 m² to 139,457 m² (13.95 ha, 34.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Ashwood Upper 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
3 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services and also
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20241506
12 Oct 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231218
29 Aug 2023Refused
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231013
12 Jul 2022Refused
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and anc
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220941
10 May 2022N/a
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services and ancillary works and
Retention, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220621
10 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of dwellinghouse with services as constructed and all
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211740
19 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A NEW EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING SERVICED DWELLING
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191703
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 Ashwood Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ashwood Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ashwood Upper.
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 Ashwood Upper, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3330 (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
No address of the register names Ashwood Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Ashwood Upper · Baile Ó gCuilinn Uachtarach
- Area
- 677,276 m² (67.73 ha, 167.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgorman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Ballylarkin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 938 people lived in 311 households in the Ballylarkin electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashwood Lower, Ballykilty Lower, Cooladangan (Co. Wicklow), Curranstown Lower (Co. Wicklow), Hollyfort, Scarnagh Lower, Whitepark
- Placenames
- Ashwood Upper 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.