# Ashpark, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lorrha, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile Uí Bhriain. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,009,847 m² (100.98 ha, 249.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 270,302 m² (27.03 ha, 66.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lorrha, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/lorrha.md - Barony: Ormond Lower - Electoral division: Lorrha East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/46011 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 210053 - Centre: latitude 53.077249, longitude -8.050177 (WGS 84) ## 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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 517330: 524,019 m² (52.4 ha, 129.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/517330.md - Parcel 524383: 270,302 m² (27.03 ha, 66.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/524383.md - Parcel 563804: 216,284 m² (21.63 ha, 53.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/563804.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ashpark in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Arragh More (Derrybreen) Bog SAC, site code 002207, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002207 - Special Area of Conservation: Kilcarren-Firville Bog SAC, site code 000647, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000647 - Natural Heritage Area: Arragh More Bog NHA, site code 000640, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/000640 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilcarren-Firville Bog, site code 000647 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TN004-028: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN004-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN004-033001-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ashpark. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/tipperary/ashpark.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ashpark.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ashpark.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abbeville: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/abbeville.md - Derrybreen: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/derrybreen.md - Lissernane: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/lissernane.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/tipperary/ashpark - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/ashpark