Askabeg

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askabeg, from 610 m² to 184,911 m² (18.49 ha, 45.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Askabeg 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 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for the demolition of a substantially intact dwelling house and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20261126

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission for the demolition of a substantially intact dwelling house and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260987

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  permission to subdivide the site boundaries as a change to that granted under

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251675

• 16 Sept 2025N/a

  Permission to subdivide the site boundaries as a change to that granted

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251168

• 29 Jul 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to revise site boundaries as a change to that granted under

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240903

• 29 Jul 2024Refused

  Permission to subdivide the site boundaries as a change to that granted under

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240902

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 Askabeg.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Askabeg.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Askabeg.

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

At the centre of the townland of Askabeg, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Askabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Askabeg · Uisce Beag

Area

614,821 m² (61.48 ha, 151.93 acres)

Civil parish

Castleellis, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Bolaboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,252 people lived in 440 households in the Bolaboy electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bolaboy Beg, Castleellis, Courtclogh Upper, Slievenagrane

Placenames

Askabeg 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.