Askinch Lower

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askinch Lower, from 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 308,640 m² (30.86 ha, 76.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Askinch Lower 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.

• 13 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)

  Planning permission for: a) Permission for new agricultural entrance b) Permi

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260443

• 2 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of the construction

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260003

• 15 Aug 2025Refused

  Permission for retention and permission for the following:

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251008

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 Askinch Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WX003A002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Marked 'fulacht fian' only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the NE bank of a NW-SE stream. It was described in 1940 as an oval mound (dims of base c. 14m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW; H 1.5-2m) of broken and burnt stone (OSFM). It was not visible at ground level in scrubland beside the stream in 1987. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 20 November, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Askinch Lower, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Askinch Lower · Easca Fhuinsinn Íochtarach

Area

655,051 m² (65.51 ha, 161.87 acres)

Civil parish

Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Coolgreany, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,199 people lived in 420 households in the Coolgreany electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Askinch Upper, Ballyfad, Moneyribbin, Newtown Lower, Newtown Upper, Shirsheen

Placenames

Askinch Lower 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.