Corrspark
Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; in Irish Páirc an Chorraigh
- Area
- 69.4 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 1,023 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrspark, from 2 m² to 124,965 m² (12.5 ha, 30.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Corrspark 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
16 Jul 2026N/a
for the construction of a site vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661199
11 Jun 2026N/a
for proposed alterations to an existing one and a half storey dwelling house to include an increase to existing ridge and wall plate levels to provide a two storey house, modifications to the existing porch & a proposed ground and first floor extension to the North of the existing dwelling house including all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660948
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 Corrspark.
Recorded monuments
- GA007-055 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 30m, E-W 28m) defined by a denuded bank and external fosse, both of which survive at N and from SE through S to SW. A scarp forms the enclosing element elsewhere. A field bank cuts the monument at NNE and SW. 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
- GA007-056 Ringfort - rath
Description
On E-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Poorly preserved almost circular rath (N-S 46m, E-W 45m) defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse; the latter survives from S through W to N. A ringfort (GA007-057----) lies c. 200m to E. 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
- GA007-057 Ringfort - rath
Description
Some 200m E of a ringfort (GA007-056----). Well-preserved circular rath (D 35.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present from W through N to NE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A gap at NNW appears modern. 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
- GA007-058 Quarry
Description
A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand and gravel quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corrspark.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corrspark.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Corrspark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Corrspark · Páirc an Chorraigh
- Area
- 693,700 m² (69.37 ha, 171.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Ballynakill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynakill electoral division: 434 people in 168 households; 95% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glinsk, Keelogesbeg, Ussey
- Placenames
- Corrspark 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.