Lowpark

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowpark, from 147 m² to 136,293 m² (13.63 ha, 33.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Lowpark 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.

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  of (a) the relocation of the dwelling house on site to that previously granted under planning reference no. 02/2024 (b) the construction of an extension to the rear of the dwelling, (c) construction of a domestic garage, (d) construction of a domestic shed and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260200

• 20 Jan 2017Conditional

  of roadside entrance & gate for agricultural purposes and all associated site ancillary works.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 1735

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lowpark.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-147 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1946-7 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection to be a series of hollows; possibly a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 3 July 2015

• GA099-148 Enclosure
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. This poorly preserved roughly subrectangular enclosure (c. 57m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) is defined by a bank of earth and stone. A NW-SE running field wall cuts across it at WNW and S and no visible surface trace of the bank survives to the SW of it. No trace of a fosse is evident. Abutting the monument at E is a subrectangular enclosure (GA099-104001-) which may be associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 April 2019

• GA099-148001 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA099-194 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lowpark.

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 Lowpark, about 1 in 20 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 Lowpark.

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 Lowpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Lowpark · An Bogán Mór

Area

1,508,058 m² (150.81 ha, 372.65 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Oatfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 149 households in the Oatfield electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyluoge, Gorteenawillin, Killoran, Lurgan Great, Poppyhill

Placenames

Lowpark 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.