Bogpark
Bogpark is a townland in the civil parish of Clontuskert, barony of Clonmacnowen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Páirc an Bhogaigh.
- Area
- 55.6 ha
- 137 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 277,452 m² (27.75 ha, 68.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bogpark, from 119,254 m² (11.93 ha, 29.47 acres) to 435,651 m² (43.57 ha, 107.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Bogpark 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
21 Mar 2019Refused
for the provision of an outdoor activity area for recreational use and for all ancillary structures and landscaping. Permission is also sought for the provision of a reception cabin, storage shed, chemical toilets, car park area, access road, site entrance and for all other ancillary site works associated with the development. Gross floor space of proposed works: 12.7 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 19406
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 Bogpark.
Recorded monuments
- GA099-042 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On a rise in undulating farmland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (N-S 32m, E-W 24m); all that survives is a low rise. 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 Bogpark.
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 Bogpark, 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 Bogpark.
- 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 Bogpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Bogpark · Páirc an Bhogaigh
- Area
- 555,691 m² (55.57 ha, 137.31 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
- Derreen, Gortnamona, Kiltormer West, Loughturk East, Sheepwalk
- Placenames
- Bogpark 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.