Parkroe
Townland in the civil parish of Killeely, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Pháirc Rua
- Area
- 59.7 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,778 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkroe, from 263 m² to 209,456 m² (20.95 ha, 51.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Parkroe 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
3 May 2024Conditional
for demolition of existing single storey dwelling house measuring 31m2, and construction of (a) part single storey - part two storey dwelling house measuring 232m2, (b) single storey domestic garage measuring 47m2, (c) new boundary wall and vehicular entrance to public road, (d) wastewater treatment and all associated site services and works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460498
21 Apr 2022N/a
will consist of (1) amendment to condition no. 2 of previously permitted Pl. Ref. No. 19/574 to allow for additional stone and earth fill to bring levels up to that of the surrounding agricultural land. (2) All associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 2.69 Hectares
Permission · Galway County Council, 22533
17 Apr 2019Conditional
to 1) fill natural indentation in existing agricultural field with stone and earth to bring levels up to that of the surrounding land, 2) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 2.69 (ha.)
Permission · Galway County Council, 19574
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 Parkroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Parkroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Parkroe.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_799 (ZIP).
- 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 Parkroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Parkroe · An Pháirc Rua
- Area
- 596,547 m² (59.65 ha, 147.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Rahasane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rahasane electoral division: 363 people in 121 households; 93% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynastaig, Caheraloggy West, Caherweelder, Carrowmaneen, Knockatoor, Laghtphilip, Parkroe, Rockfield, Scalp, Shanbally, Templemartin
- Placenames
- Parkroe 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.