Hillpark

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hillpark, from 15 m² to 242,008 m² (24.2 ha, 59.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Hillpark 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.

• 13 Aug 2026Refused

  for the construction of a mixed use medical centre, sheltered housing and residential development, consisting of ; (1) a two storey medical centre building, (2) 29 no. single storey sheltered housing units, (3) 9 no. two storey 3 bed residential units, (4) provision for new vehicular entrance onto the N67 where the 50kmph urban speed limit applies, (5) provision of car parking including future EV charging points and ducting, (6) provision of private open space areas, public open space areas, landscaping, footpaths, revised internal and external boundary treatments, bicycle parking spaces, public lighting and an ESB Substation, (7) provision of a footpath extension along the edge of the N67 road frontage, to tie in with the existing roadside footpath at the entrance to the Redington Woods housing estate, together with relocation of roadside boulder sign, (8) provision of zebra crossing to facilitate pedestrian connectivity to the western side of the N67, (9) connection to existing mains water infrastructure on the N67 road, (10) provision of surface water drainage arrangements to include on site attenuation and infiltration, and (11) renewal of existing treatment plant infrastructure located at the adjoining “New Estate / Clarinbridge Court” development to the east, to serve the existing 34 no. houses within the estate along with the proposed mixed-use development, together with all associated site works and services. (12) provision of on-site pumping station and rising main sewer to connect to aforementioned treatment plant infrastructure. The Planning Application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661390

• 30 Apr 2024Conditional

  for changing the façade to existing building and retain the roof of adjoining building

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460481

• 4 Jul 2022Conditional

  to 1) retain existing change of use from forge to medical device distributor/warehouse, 2) demolish existing storage area to rear, 3) construct new 2 storey extensions to side and rear, 4) raise existing roof to provide for first floor extension to existing building and 5) replace existing septic tank with new treatment system and polishing filter including signage and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 262 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 62.65 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22849

• 21 Dec 2021N/a

  to (1) demolish existing storage area to rear, (2) Construct new 2 storey extensions to side and rear, (3) raise existing roof to provide for first floor extension to existing building and (4) replace existing septic tank with new treatment system and polishing filter including signage and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 262 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 212452

• 4 Aug 2021Conditional

  for the construction of an extension, along with renovations to existing dwelling to include all associated ancillary works & site works with connection to existing services. Gross floor space of proposed works is 21.5 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211428

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hillpark.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850. Pitched thatched roof with decorative raised ridge, rendered chimneystack and render capping to gable. Painted smooth rendered walls having painted quoins and smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having painted surrounds and painted stone sills with replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening having painted surround with replacement glazed timber door.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850. Pitched thatched roof with decorative raised ridge, and rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered walls with plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement timber door.

• Public house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-storey thatched public house, built c.1850, incorporating several separate buildings, having eleven-bay ground floor and seven-bay first floor, and having single-storey bay to south. Recent six-bay single-storey extension perpendicular to rear (west) elevation. Pitched thatched roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Painted pebbledashed walls having smooth render to south gable. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Metal sill guards to first floor windows. Pub front having slated canopy over timber nameplate, with rendered walls, and with chamfered door opening with half-glazed timber panelled door flanked by square-headed window openings with replacement leaded windows.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Hillpark, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

No address of the register names Hillpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Hillpark · Páirc an Chnoic

Area

297,906 m² (29.79 ha, 73.61 acres)

Civil parish

Stradbally, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Clarinbridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,143 people lived in 1,459 households in the Clarinbridge electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamanagh East, Kilcornan, Slieveaun, Stradbally East, Stradbally North, Tonroe

Placenames

Hillpark 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.