Askinch Upper

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askinch Upper, from 1,919 m² to 225,281 m² (22.53 ha, 55.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Upper 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.

• 23 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a single storey serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260816

• 15 Aug 2025Refused

  Permission for retention and permission for the following:

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251008

• 6 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out all associated an

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220599

• 16 Feb 2022Refused

  Permission for a new detached split-level 2-storey dormer dwelling, and detached

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220200

• 15 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and carry out all associated ancil

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211981

• 7 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a dwelling, well, effluent treatment system, new entrance and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201154

• 30 Jan 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF (I) CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR ATTIC SPACE OF EXISTIN

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180098

• 22 Dec 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF (I) RELOCATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ON SITE FROM 20072896

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161435

• 29 Sept 2016Refused

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF (i) INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS IN BOTH GABLE WALLS AT A

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161066

• 14 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161025

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WX003-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a steep E-facing slope, with a NW-SE stream c. 250m to the NE. This is a slightly raised oval area of rough pasture (dims. 44m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1-1.4m) NW-S, which is incorporated into a field bank elsewhere, and with an external fosse (Wth of top 5-6m; D 0.3m) E-S. There is no visible entrance. 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: 14 February, 2012

• WX003A001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a fragment of an enclosure bank and fosse S-E. It is situated on a SE-facing slope at the headwaters of a NW-SE stream, and with a WSW-ENE spur extending off to the NE. A fragment of bank (Wth 4–6m; H 1.5–1.8m) and an external fosse (Wth of top 4-5m; max. ext. D 1.5m) survive on the W and N sides of an enclosure (C 51m) 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: 14 February, 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Upper, 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 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 Upper.

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

Name

Askinch Upper · Easca Fhuinsinn Uachtarach

Area

972,312 m² (97.23 ha, 240.26 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 Lower, Killahurler Lower (Co. Wicklow), Killahurler Upper (Co. Wicklow), Moneyribbin, Shirsheen, Slievefoore (Co. Wicklow)

Placenames

Askinch Upper 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.