Baron Ashtown, of Moate in the County of Galway, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

Cosby Godolphin Trench, second son of the second Baron and served as Ambassador to South Korea and to Portugal.

[citation needed] The heir apparent is the present holder's only son, Hon.

[4][1] The next in line to the barony is the present peer's fifth cousin once removed, Jack Ferdinand Chenevix Trench (born 1978, see succession chart below).

[4][5] The simplified chart above lists those individuals in the line of succession who are nearest in consanguinity to the present peer; there are further heirs in descent from the fifth and sixth brothers of the first baron.