# Askakeagh, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Preban, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Easca Chaoch. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,372,981 m² (337.3 ha, 833.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,935 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Preban, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/preban.md - Barony: Ballinacor South - Electoral division: Ballinglen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55809 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250023 - Centre: latitude 52.84723, longitude -6.419346 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askakeagh, from 192 m² to 526,483 m² (52.65 ha, 130.1 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1294777: 526,483 m² (52.65 ha, 130.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294777.md - Parcel 1269965: 382,364 m² (38.24 ha, 94.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269965.md - Parcel 1286432: 347,489 m² (34.75 ha, 85.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286432.md - Parcel 1297727: 330,212 m² (33.02 ha, 81.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297727.md - Parcel 1259944: 262,568 m² (26.26 ha, 64.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259944.md - Parcel 1277200: 228,632 m² (22.86 ha, 56.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277200.md - Parcel 1267930: 123,237 m² (12.32 ha, 30.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267930.md - Parcel 1274763: 116,323 m² (11.63 ha, 28.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274763.md - Parcel 1286120: 103,277 m² (10.33 ha, 25.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286120.md - Parcel 1280688: 96,982 m² (9.7 ha, 23.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280688.md - Parcel 1271240: 84,467 m² (8.45 ha, 20.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271240.md - Parcel 4944949: 82,418 m² (8.24 ha, 20.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4944949.md - Parcel 1296386: 65,633 m² (6.56 ha, 16.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296386.md - Parcel 1276804: 61,296 m² (6.13 ha, 15.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276804.md - Parcel 1275059: 50,976 m² (5.1 ha, 12.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275059.md - Parcel 1274764: 49,950 m² (4.99 ha, 12.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274764.md - Parcel 1281558: 46,312 m² (4.63 ha, 11.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281558.md - Parcel 1248969: 44,155 m² (4.42 ha, 10.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248969.md - Parcel 4334005: 25,438 m² (2.54 ha, 6.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4334005.md - Parcel 4894118: 15,935 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4894118.md - Parcel 1280010: 15,262 m² (1.53 ha, 3.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280010.md - Parcel 1282501: 8,774 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282501.md - Parcel 4944909: 6,147 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4944909.md - Parcel 4128348: 4,956 m² (0.5 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4128348.md - Parcel 1281559: 4,498 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281559.md - Parcel 1268791: 4,258 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268791.md - Parcel 1281368: 3,563 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281368.md - Parcel 1250781: 3,531 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250781.md - Parcel 4086244: 3,155 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4086244.md - Parcel 5689135: 3,071 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5689135.md - Parcel 5095863: 2,919 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5095863.md - Parcel 1269442: 2,719 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269442.md - Parcel 1300076: 2,212 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300076.md - Parcel 1268848: 2,211 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268848.md - Parcel 1285524: 2,101 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285524.md - Parcel 1292509: 2,019 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292509.md - Parcel 1269127: 1,461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269127.md - Parcel 1283539: 312 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283539.md - Parcel 1282979: 192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282979.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 25 Aug 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660755: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660755/0 - 3 Jun 2021, Wicklow County Council 21671: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21671/0 - 22 Apr 2021, Wicklow County Council 21459: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21459/0 - 5 Mar 2021, Wicklow County Council 21229: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21229/0 - 17 Dec 2020, Wicklow County Council 201292: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. single storey dwelling, single storey garage, septic tank & percolation area, new bored well, domestic entrance & all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201292/0 - 5 Jul 2017, Wicklow County Council 17814: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17814/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Askakeagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Askakeagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Askakeagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/askakeagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/askakeagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/askakeagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Askakeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinglen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinglen.md - Ballymanus: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymanus.md - Carrigroe: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/carrigroe-250472.md - Corndog: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/corndog.md - Slievemweel: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/slievemweel.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/askakeagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/askakeagh