Barnpark
Barnpark is a townland in the civil parish of Clontuskert, barony of Clonmacnowen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Páirc an Sciobóil.
- Area
- 28.4 ha
- 70 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnpark. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Barnpark 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
No planning application touches the townland of Barnpark in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Barnpark.
Recorded monuments
- GA100-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in undulating grassland. Subcircular ringfort (N-S 26m, E-W 21.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone from SW to W, and elsewhere by a scarp. The monument has been extensively quarried. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA100-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
At N end of a ridge in gently undulating grassland. Circular ringfort (D 33.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and intervening fosse, with traces of an outer bank visible from N to ENE. Entrance causeway at ESE. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing elements at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barnpark.
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 Barnpark, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barnpark.
- 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 Barnpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Barnpark · Páirc an Sciobóil
- Area
- 283,779 m² (28.38 ha, 70.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontuskert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonmacnowen
- Electoral division
- Clontuskert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 218 people lived in 90 households in the Clontuskert electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh, Chapelpark, Coolbeg, Lakefield, Somerset
- Placenames
- Barnpark 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.