Askintinny
Askintinny is a townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Easca an tSionnaigh.
- Area
- 77 ha
- 190 acres
- Land parcels
- 85
- registered freehold, median 850 m²
- Zoning
- C2.2
- Extractive Industry
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Askintinny, from 7 m² to 202,226 m² (20.22 ha, 49.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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
- C2.2Extractive Industry (General industry)
Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 2 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
3 Oct 2025N/a
for permission for the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, blocking up existing entrance and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560790
27 Nov 2024Conditional
for side extension as built to existing dwelling, storage shed as built and permission for removal of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well onsite and associate works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460740
12 Mar 2024Conditional
amendments to previously approved planning permission Reg Ref :21/713 . The amendments comprise the following; (i) change of roof type from flat-roof to low-pitch pitched roof, with rooflights, to the approved detached single-storey dwelling; (ii) alterations to the fenestration treatment to all elevations; (iii) alterations to as granted covered terraces; (iv) addition of a new single-storey detached shed with pitched roof; (v) minor internal layout alterations; (vi) all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24126
25 Oct 2023Conditional
rear and side extension as built to existing dwelling, front porch as built to front of existing dwelling, garage to side of dwelling as built, polytunnel to rear of dwelling as build, shed as built to rear of dwelling, new wastewater treatment unit and soiling polishing filter as installed and associate works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360377
19 Oct 2023N/a
rear and side extension as built to existing dwelling, front porch as built to front of existing dwelling, garage to side of dwelling as built, polytunnel to rear of dwelling as build, shed as built to rear of dwelling, new wastewater treatment unit and soiling polishing filter as installed and associate works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360361
22 May 2023Refused
proposed coastal defence works comprising of rock revetement works and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360057
17 Jun 2021Conditional
demolition of existing single storey commercial building which comprises of the former 12 no bedroom, Clogga Bay hotel, demolition of existing 3 no bedroom dwelling adjoining the hotel, removal and backfill of the existing swimming pool, construction of 1 no single storey, detached replacement dwelling comprising 6 no bedrooms. The proposed dwelling will also include a revised vehicular driveway with car parking area accessed via existing vehicular entrance off Clogga Cove, private amenity space including soft landscaping and boundary treatments, provision of a new wastewater treatment system, suDS, and well and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21713
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arklow Rock-Askintinny 001745
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Askintinny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Askintinny.
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 Askintinny, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Askintinny.
- 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 Askintinny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Askintinny · Easca an tSionnaigh
- Area
- 769,906 m² (76.99 ha, 190.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Arklow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Arklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinabanoge, Clogga, Rock Big
- Placenames
- Askintinny 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.