Parks

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parks, from 86 m² to 135,580 m² (13.56 ha, 33.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Parks 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.

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional

  demolition of existing derelict house and the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25141

• 21 Feb 2025N/a

  demolition of existing derelict house and the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2564

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  construction of a proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24158

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 Parks.

Recorded monuments

• MA100-007 Enclosure
  Description

  On high ground, overlooking Carrownacon Lough to W. Shown as circular enclosure on OS map (1838). Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 478. Date of upload: 23 January 2013

• MA100-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 46m). Very slight traces of enclosing bank are visible. Possibly a ringfort. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 479. Date of upload: 23 January 2013

• MA100-009 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on E-facing slope. Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Shown on the 1931 edition as a semicircular hachured area (diam. c. 55-60m), curving E-WSW. Lavelle (1994, 65, No. 480) recorded it as 'Levelled; no visible surface traces. Local tradition of ringfort.'. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 January 2013

• MA100-055 Crannog
  Description

  On E shore of Carrownacon Lough. Several narrow upright posts, slotted into sod-covered wooden planks. Roughly rectangular in shape. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 87. Date of upload: 25 January 2013

• MA100-059 Enclosure
  Description

  On N-facing slope. Shown on the OS map (1931) as circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 19m). Levelled; modern building now occupies the site. [recte: Not overlain by building. Possibly truncated at E by driveway leading N to house.]. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 481. Date of upload: 25 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Parks, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Parks.

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 Parks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Parks · Cúil Ghad

Area

1,845,507 m² (184.55 ha, 456.03 acres)

Civil parish

Touaghty, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Roslee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

443 people lived in 154 households in the Roslee electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burren, Carrownacon, Carrownahaltore, Cloonboorhy, Lisrobert, Mountpleasant, Rusheen or Thomastown, Towerhill Demesne

Placenames

Parks 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.