Ashtown
Townland in the civil parish of Rathnew, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Móin na Sruthla
- Area
- 54.2 ha
- 134 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 963 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashtown, from 434 m² to 492,647 m² (49.26 ha, 121.74 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Sept 2024Unconditional
Part 8 to carry our Road Widening works along Rocky Road, Wicklow Town from Carrig Beag Housing Development to M11 Junction to increase the carriageway width to between 5.5m and 6m throughout along with the introduction of New Pedestrian Footpath along the Roadside of the existing Rockey Road between Carrig Beag Housing Development at the Junction with Ashtown Lane. Public Lighting will be installed along the footpath section. Works include new roadside drainage for surface water. Boundary treatments and accommodation works will be required in certain locations. ( For submission/ observation details please see the development site notice)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24365
22 Dec 2021Conditional
circa 22.35m2 single storey extension to the side of an existing 200m2 dormer dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211551
15 Jul 2020Refused
green coloured palisade style entrance gates and fencing at the entrance to the Old Ashtown Reservoir (from the L5100)
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20677
26 Jun 2020N/a
green coloured palisade style entrance gates and fencing to the Old Ashtown Reservoir (from the L5100
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20608
12 Jun 2020N/a
green coloured palisade style entrance gates and fencing at the entrance to the Old Ashtown Reservoir (from the L5100)
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20546
30 Jul 2018Conditional
9.2m long shipping container to provide anglers shelter and storage (22.08 sqm) located on the northern boundary and 3 no detached lakeside anglers shelters (3.30 sqm each) located one on the north, one of the east and one on the south side of the reservoir and all development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18867
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 Ashtown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ashtown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ashtown.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3390 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ashtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Ashtown · Móin na Sruthla
- Area
- 542,152 m² (54.22 ha, 133.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wicklow Rural electoral division: 10,247 people in 3,334 households; 73% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashtown, Ballynabarny, Ballynerrin, Ballynerrin Lower, Broomhall, Hawkstown Lower
- Placenames
- Ashtown 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.