Park
Park is a townland in the civil parish of Galbally, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Pháirc.
- Area
- 187.8 ha
- 464 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 2,617 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Park, from 293 m² to 170,334 m² (17.03 ha, 42.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Park 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
23 Dec 2025Conditional
a drafting area with effluent tank, cattle shed with slatted tank and ancillary works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25406
23 Oct 2025N/a
a drafting area with effluent tank, cattle shed with slatted tank and ancillary works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25348
15 Sept 2025Conditional
a domestic garage and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 25309
27 Aug 2025N/a
a drafting area with effluent tank, cattle shed with slatted tank and ancillary works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25292
5 Jun 2025Refused
a change of use of garage to a granny flat from a previous planning application (07/3657)
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560528
17 Nov 2023Refused
extension of permission for planning ref. 16/598: construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, bored well, effluent treatment system and percolation area, main entrance and associated site works - extended under 21/7018 until 08/01/2024
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 237035
5 Nov 2021Conditional
demolition to existing derelict dwellinghouse, construction of a new two storey old style farmhouse in its place, carry out alterations and re-alignment of existing entrance, install a new waste water treatment system and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211541
29 Apr 2021Conditional
extension of duration for 16/598 for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, bored well, effluent treatment system and percolation area, main entrance and associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 217018
17 Oct 2018Conditional
the construction of an extension to the existing all weather training arena for horses/ponies including ancillary fences and water jump and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 181010
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 Park.
Recorded monuments
- LI049-086009 Water mill - unclassified
Description
Medieval mills of Galbally described in the Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 130) as following; '"There were two mills, a grist mill (LI049-086008-) and a tucking mill, on the river Aherlow in the 17th century (Westropp 1904-5, 452) one of which may have been on the site of the Corn mill, south east of the town'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 September 2019
- LI049-087002 Quarry
Description
In pasture, immediately S of townland boundary with Ardnamoher and 50m S of the Aherlow River that forms County boundary with Tipperary. Associated with St. Francis holy well (LI049-087001-), Moor Abbey (TS073-011----) lies 130m to the N. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken D- shaped area (dims. 11m N-S; 30m E-W) which probably represents the remains of a small quarry. Tree-covered area visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Probably the remains of a small quarry of post-1700 date. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 October 2021
- LI049-088 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, an enclosure (LI049-0211----) lies 70m to the W. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised D- shaped area (dims. 26m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by a scarp from SE-S-W-N, transected at E by post-1700 field boundary running N-S , with fosse from SE-S-SW. Tree-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 October 2021
- LI049-211 Enclosure
Description
In wet pasture immediately N of a stream. Enclosure (LI049-088----) lies 90m to E. Depicted as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not depicted on subsequent OSi maps. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages, where a forestry plantation is located to S and W. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 October 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Park.
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 Park, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Park.
- 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 Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Park · An Pháirc
- Area
- 1,877,950 m² (187.8 ha, 464.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Galbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Galbally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 588 people lived in 223 households in the Galbally electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnamoher, Ardrahin, Barna, Galbally, Keeloges, Kilscanlan, Moorabbey (Co. Tipperary)
- Placenames
- Park 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.