Askinfarney
Townland in the civil parish of Rossdroit, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish Easca an Fhearna
- Area
- 48.9 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 3,110 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askinfarney, from 53 m² to 316,607 m² (31.66 ha, 78.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Askinfarney 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Apr 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a two storey extension to an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240378
30 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to 1) construct an agricultural shed for cattle with slatted unit
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210642
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Askinfarney.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Askinfarney.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Askinfarney.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Askinfarney.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Askinfarney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Askinfarney · Easca an Fhearna
- Area
- 488,656 m² (48.87 ha, 120.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossdroit, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- The Leap, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- The Leap electoral division: 1,029 people in 355 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolamurry, Courtnacuddy, Dranagh, Moneytucker, Rathnure
- Placenames
- Askinfarney 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.