Ashfield

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 as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

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.

• 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.

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).

Radon

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1905 (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.

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

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

822 people lived in 266 households in the Silverbrook electoral division. 87% of households owned 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.