Park

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Park, from 40,110 m² (4.01 ha, 9.91 acres) to 369,980 m² (37 ha, 91.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 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.

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a solar PV farm at a site in the townlands of Cuilnacappy, Park, Moneenroe & Gortnalavey, near Creggs village, Co. Galway. The solar farm will have an operational lifespan of 40 years & a maximum export capacity of 75MW of electricity. The development will comprise the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows, ancillary cabling & electrical infrastructure including approx. 18no. inverter station locations (with option for two stations at each location), ducting & underground cabling; provision of new internal access tracks; storage containers; perimeter fencing, pole mounted CCTV cameras; vehicular access via 2no. access points, one comprising an upgrade of an existing agricultural access directly to the L2316 & one via an upgraded existing private road which adjoins the L2316 adjacent to its junction with the R362; proposed new passing bay on this private road; 1no. further alternative vehicular access point at a new vehicular entrance to the L2316; & all associated site development & landscaping works, all on a site of approx. 107.4ha. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in relation to the project & will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360875

• 5 May 2023N/a

  for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a solar PV farm at a site in the townlands of Cuilnacappy, Park, Moneenroe, and Gortnalavey, near Creggs village, Co. Galway. The solar farm will have an operational lifespan of 40 years and a maximum export capacity of 75MW of electricity. The development will comprise the installation of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames in rows, ancillary cabling and electrical infrastructure including approx. 18 no. inverter station locations (with option for two stations at each location), ducting and underground cabling; provision of new internal access tracks; storage containers; perimeter fencing, pole mounted CCTV cameras; vehicular access via 2 No. access points, one comprising an upgrade of an existing agricultural access directly to the L2316 and one via an upgraded existing private road which adjoins the L2316 adjacent to its junction with the R362; proposed new passing bay on this private road; 1 No. further alternative vehicular access point at a new vehicular entrance to the L2316; and all associated site development and landscaping works. All on a site of approx. 107.4ha

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360464

• 29 Mar 2022Unconditional

  to erect a two storey dwelling house with detached single storey domestic garage/fuel store and install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter percolation area and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 298.01 sqm., Garage: 49.16 sqm.)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22418

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 Park.

Recorded monuments

• GA020-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 54m, N-S 50.5m) defined by a denuded bank and external fosse; the latter is visible only from SSW to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA020-020 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

Architectural heritage

• Creggs Bridge, bridge, 1780–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch humpbacked limestone bridge, built c.1800, but reconstructed c.1850. Round and segmental arches with ashlar voussoirs cut in block and start fashion. Coursed rubble stone walls with rectangular-plan cutwaters. Walls capped with roughly cut coping stones. One arch acts as flood arch as river has been narrowed and only one arch is used for flow of water.

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 Park, 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 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.

No address of the register names Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Park · An Pháirc

Area

409,669 m² (40.97 ha, 101.23 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbegnet, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Creggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

351 people lived in 139 households in the Creggs electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creggauns, Creggs, Cuilnacappy, Millford, Moneenroe, Rabbitpark

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.