Askanagap
Askanagap is a townland in the civil parish of Moyne, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Easca na gCeap.
- Area
- 198.8 ha
- 491 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 3,704 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askanagap, from 38 m² to 315,992 m² (31.6 ha, 78.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Askanagap 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, blocking up existing agriculture entrance and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660786
13 May 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto an existing driveway which leads onto public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660406
19 Nov 2025Conditional
construction of a new building to be used as two changing rooms, toilets, meeting room and kitchen and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560943
20 Aug 2025N/a
Dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 25232
28 Jan 2025N/a
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2518
3 Feb 2022Conditional
proposed revised house type on previously granted site (ref. no. 20/1047) and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2292
19 Apr 2021Conditional
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards , garage , entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21432
19 Oct 2020Conditional
dwelling, wastewater treatment system, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201047
17 Dec 2019Conditional
dwelling house with services, garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191356
10 May 2019N/a
dwelling house with services, a domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19508
6 Nov 2018Conditional
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181232
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 Askanagap.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Askanagap.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Askanagap.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Askanagap, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Askanagap.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Askanagap with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Askanagap · Easca na gCeap
- Area
- 1,987,915 m² (198.79 ha, 491.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Coolballintaggart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 528 people lived in 179 households in the Coolballintaggart electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymaghroe, Ballymanus, Coolballintaggart, Sheilstown, Slievemweel
- Placenames
- Askanagap 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.