Ashpark
Ashpark is a townland in the civil parish of Lorrha, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Bhriain.
- Area
- 101 ha
- 250 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 270,302 m² (27.03 ha, 66.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashpark, from 216,284 m² (21.63 ha, 53.45 acres) to 524,019 m² (52.4 ha, 129.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Ashpark 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
No planning application touches the townland of Ashpark 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Arragh More (Derrybreen) Bog SAC 002207
- Special Area of Conservation: Kilcarren-Firville Bog SAC 000647
- Natural Heritage Area: Arragh More Bog NHA 000640
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilcarren-Firville Bog 000647
Recorded monuments
- TN004-028 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Situated on top of a natural rise of ground in an upland area with extensive views. A circular flat-topped mound (H 0.7m; top diam. 3.5m E-W; base diam. 7.5m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 3.6m) and a poorly preserved earthen outer bank (Wth 1.5m). Overall diameter 17.5m E-W. 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN004-033001 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Situated on poorly drained land at the N and W edges of a bog. Described as an irregular-shaped earthwork defined by a scarp covered in dense scrub (OPW files, 1970). Levelled during a land improvement scheme in the early 1970s. Not visible at ground level. Depicted as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 60m N-S x 75m NE-SW) on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map with field immediately to NW annotated 'Shanvally'. The fields to the WNW of 'Shanvally' have been annotated 'Ballybreen' on the OS map. The townland of Ashpark was previously called 'Ballybreen' as depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of the barony of Lower Ormond (NLI, MS 721). Curving ditch of enclosure visible from E-S on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 25/03/2017. Existing curve in field boundary on W side of enclosure may incorporate original bank of enclosure. See attached Google Earth photograph taken 25/03/2017 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 21 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ashpark.
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 Ashpark, about 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ashpark.
- 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 Ashpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ashpark · Baile Uí Bhriain
- Area
- 1,009,847 m² (100.98 ha, 249.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lorrha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Lorrha East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 301 people lived in 117 households in the Lorrha East electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbeville, Derrybreen, Lissernane
- Placenames
- Ashpark 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.