# Askabeg, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castleellis, barony of Ballaghkeen South, Co. Wexford; in Irish Uisce Beag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 614,821 m² (61.48 ha, 151.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,350 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castleellis, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/castleellis.md - Barony: Ballaghkeen South - Electoral division: Bolaboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/52251 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240038 - Centre: latitude 52.478353, longitude -6.398247 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askabeg, from 610 m² to 184,911 m² (18.49 ha, 45.69 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 394745: 184,911 m² (18.49 ha, 45.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/394745.md - Parcel 380598: 149,240 m² (14.92 ha, 36.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/380598.md - Parcel 422076: 100,203 m² (10.02 ha, 24.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/422076.md - Parcel 409226: 59,354 m² (5.94 ha, 14.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/409226.md - Parcel 385125: 40,732 m² (4.07 ha, 10.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/385125.md - Parcel 5408923: 31,666 m² (3.17 ha, 7.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5408923.md - Parcel 5221367: 28,350 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5221367.md - Parcel 425021: 7,277 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425021.md - Parcel 398978: 5,475 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/398978.md - Parcel 4859653: 3,456 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4859653.md - Parcel 4642236: 2,463 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4642236.md - Parcel 363076: 1,851 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/363076.md - Parcel 408439: 610 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/408439.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 26 Aug 2026, Wexford County Council 20261126: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the demolition of a substantially intact dwelling house and. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/131871 - 24 Jul 2026, Wexford County Council 20260987: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the demolition of a substantially intact dwelling house and. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/131700 - 17 Dec 2025, Wexford County Council 20251675: N/a. Retention, 1 home. permission to subdivide the site boundaries as a change to that granted under. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/130312 - 16 Sept 2025, Wexford County Council 20251168: N/a. Retention. Permission to subdivide the site boundaries as a change to that granted. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/129739 - 29 Jul 2024, Wexford County Council 20240903: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission to revise site boundaries as a change to that granted under. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127546 - 29 Jul 2024, Wexford County Council 20240902: Refused. Retention. Permission to subdivide the site boundaries as a change to that granted under. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/127545 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Askabeg. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Askabeg. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Askabeg. ## 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 Askabeg, 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 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 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/wexford/askabeg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/askabeg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/askabeg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Askabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bolaboy Beg: https://everytownland.com/wexford/bolaboy-beg-240627.md - Castleellis: https://everytownland.com/wexford/castleellis.md - Courtclogh Upper: https://everytownland.com/wexford/courtclogh-upper.md - Slievenagrane: https://everytownland.com/wexford/slievenagrane.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/wexford/askabeg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/askabeg