Askakeagh

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askakeagh, from 192 m² to 526,483 m² (52.65 ha, 130.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Askakeagh 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.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III application Level 1 - consist of a ten year planning permission to develop an electricity service, entailing the laying of approximately 23.9 kilometers of 38kV cable from the consented Ballymanus Wind Farm (Reg. Ref. 17/814) to connect the wind farm to the national grid at the existing Arklow 220kV ESB Station, County Wicklow, the proposed grid connection will be installed within existing private tracks and public roadway and include, provision of joint bays, draw pits, communication chambers, three phase electrical cables, optical fibre cables and cable sheath sectionalising chambers, water and rail crossings by (i) bridge crossings, (ii) horizontal directional drilling and iii) guided auger bore, limited ancillary forestry felling to facilitate construction and operation of the proposed development, reinstatement of land, road and track surface above the proposed cabling trench, all associated ancillary works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU)2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act, as amended, When a notice issues in accordence with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660755

• 3 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing farmhouse comprising new accessible bedroom accommodation, care staff facilities and garage. The application also includes the demolition of an existing garage adjacent to the existing farmhouse, a new wastewater treatment system and the reinstatement of a former laneway

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21671

• 22 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of a 1.5 storey extension to the side of existing house comprising of a large kitchen/dining/living area, 3 no. bedrooms and bathrooms. The application also includes the demolition of an existing shed adjacent to the existing house, a new wastewater treatment system and a garage attached to the rear of the proposed extension

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21459

• 5 Mar 2021N/a

  development consists of the construction of a 1 1/2 storey extension to the side of existing house comprising of a large kitchen/dining/living area, 3 no. bedrooms and bathrooms. The application also includes a garage attached to the rear of the proposed extension

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21229

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  single storey dwelling, single storey garage, septic tank & percolation area, new bored well, domestic entrance & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201292

• 5 Jul 2017Refused

  ten year permission for development of a wind energy project. The development will consist of up to eleven wind turbines with a maximum overall height of 150m to blade tip from existing ground level, a transformer at each turbine, a hard stand area adjacent to each turbine, a 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works, up to two permanent / temporary meteoroligcal mast with a maximum overall height of 100m tip from existing ground level and all associated infrastructure and works, a temporary site compound and all associated works, new site tracks and upgraded site tracks and all associated works, two new access entrance to local road and all associated works, 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works, land clearance including tree felling and vegetation removal, and all ancillary works. An Environmental Impact Statement accompanies the application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17814

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 Askakeagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Askakeagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Askakeagh.

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 Askakeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Askakeagh · An Easca Chaoch

Area

3,372,981 m² (337.3 ha, 833.48 acres)

Civil parish

Preban, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Ballinglen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinglen electoral division: 234 people in 81 households; 86% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinglen, Ballymanus, Carrigroe, Corndog, Slievemweel

Placenames

Askakeagh 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.