Askunshin

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askunshin, from 503 m² to 226,755 m² (22.68 ha, 56.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Askunshin 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.

• 1 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for alteration to site boundary and upgrade of sewage treatment

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260388

• 1 Apr 2026Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260389

• 8 Jan 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250005

• 19 Dec 2024N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241603

• 16 Oct 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect single storey extensions to the side and rear of our

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201199

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 Askunshin.

Recorded monuments

• WX019-034 Pit-burial
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and resolved (E4347) by A. Mulcahy as Askunshin 3 during the testing phase (Hardy et al. 2010, 121-2). It is located in a slight col between a low hill c. 860m to the NNW and a slight rise c. 250m to the SSE. It proved to be a single pit (dims 0.49m x 0.42m; D 0.08m) filled with two deposits, both containing burnt bone. The bone proved to be animal rather than human, but a sample from the lower fill produced a C14 determination of Cal. BC 1403-1262. The pits (WX019-035----) are c. 260m to the NE. (Mulcahy 2012; 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

• WX019-035 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme, and set aside for resolution as Askunshin 2 (Hardy et al. 2010, 120-1). It is located on a slight N-facing slope in a slight col between a low hill c. 900m to the NW and a slight rise c. 400m to the SW. It was fully excavated (E4222) by Y. Whitty when two oval pits (dims 1.12m x 0.62m; D 0.62m: 1.1m x 0.7m; D 0.17m) 0.7m apart were uncovered. A smaller pit (diam. 0.35-0.4m) was just to the E of the second pit and contained three inverted and broken prehistoric pots that were block-lifted for conservation, the results which are not yet available. The hearth and pits (WX019-036----) are c. 100m to the NE, although they may be wholly unrelated, and the pit-burial (WX019-034----), c. 260m to the SW may be more relevant. (Hull and Hardy 2012; Whitty 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

• WX019-036 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme, and set aside for resolution as Askunshin 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 120-1). It is located on a slight N-facing slope in a slight col between a low hill c. 900m to the NW and a slight rise c. 400m to the SW. It was fully excavated (E4221) by Y. Whitty when a hearth (dims 0.7m x 0.66m; T 0.18m) was recorded with three stake-holes nearby together with a layer of re-deposited hearth material. There was a cluster of six post-holes in a confined area (dims c. 3m x c. 3m) near a pit (diam. 0.7m x 0.45m; D 0.13m) c. 4m to the W but no pattern was discernible, and there were other isolated pits and post-holes. Three sherds of glazed red earthenware from the topsoil might provide the only dating evidence. The pits (WX016-035----) are c. 100m to the SW, although they might be completely unrelated. (McNamara and Taylor 2011; Whitty 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 Nivember, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2881 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Askunshin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Askunshin · Easca an Fhuinsinn

Area

1,009,722 m² (100.97 ha, 249.51 acres)

Civil parish

Monart, and its townlands

Barony

Scarawalsh

Electoral division

Marshalstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Marshalstown electoral division: 1,113 people in 387 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hollyfort, Killalligan North, Milehouse, Monart East, Pullinstown Big

Placenames

Askunshin 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.