Aska Beg

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aska Beg, from 126 m² to 522,040 m² (52.2 ha, 129 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aska Beg 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.

• 5 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260009

• 13 Aug 2025Refused

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250998

• 24 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220237

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 the townland of Aska Beg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aska Beg.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan. Undergoing repair, 2007. Now disused. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, rooflights to rear (south) pitch, and no rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slate flagged eaves. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with rendered lintel framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road in unkempt grounds with limewashed piers to "cottage garden" having stepped capping supporting flat iron gate.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aska Beg.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Aska Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Aska Beg · An Easca Bheag

Area

1,454,750 m² (145.48 ha, 359.48 acres)

Civil parish

Carnew, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Ballybeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybeg electoral division: 630 people in 198 households; 87% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aska More, Ballybeg, Ballytarsna, Kiltillahan, Monasootagh

Placenames

Aska Beg 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.