Parkmore
Parkmore is a townland in the civil parish of Robertstown, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Pháirc Mhór.
- Area
- 51.8 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 5,547 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkmore, from 99 m² to 120,517 m² (12.05 ha, 29.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Parkmore 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 2025Conditional
the construction of a garage/domestic storage shed for private use and all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560401
1 Aug 2019Conditional
the construction of a single storey conservatory to the front elevation of existing dwelling.
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19760
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 Parkmore.
Recorded monuments
- LI019-263 Enclosure
Description
In meadow, on gentle SE-facing slope. No visible surface trace evident of arch of hachures (C c. 35m) N-W shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI019-265 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on E-facing slope. Monument depicted as embanked enclosure truncated at NE by field boundary on 1841 OS 6-inch map has been partially levelled as has field boundary. Enclosure now evident as D-shaped area (26m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) defined by partially levelled bank (Wth 11.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.5m) WSW-N and by scarped edge (Wth 4.6m; H 1.4m) E-WSW. A linear depression (Wth 1.7m; L 24m; D 0.4m; long-axis WSW-ENE) crosses interior and enclosing element. Depression is partially covered by overgrowth otherwise entire site under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Parkmore.
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 Parkmore, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_408 (ZIP).
- 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 Parkmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Parkmore · An Pháirc Mhór
- Area
- 517,904 m² (51.79 ha, 127.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Robertstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Shanagolden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 922 people lived in 370 households in the Shanagolden electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kimeheer, Knockardnacorlan, Shanagolden, Shanagolden Demesne, Sroolane
- Placenames
- Parkmore 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.