Parkgarve
Parkgarve is a townland in the civil parish of Lackagh, barony of Clare, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Pháirc Gharbh.
Parcel 1995134
- Area
- 3,728 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Parkgarve
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_755 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 23.3 ha
- 57 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 2,235 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkgarve, from 602 m² to 47,223 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Parkgarve 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
25 Jun 2026Conditional
for change of house plans following grant of planning permission, ref. no 25/61641 and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661060
15 Dec 2025Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561857
7 Nov 2025Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561641
29 Aug 2025Conditional
of plant room shed, (2) extension to plant room shed, and (3) construction of a new domestic garage and associated services
Retention · Galway County Council, 2561215
25 Jun 2024Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202.00 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460775
30 May 2024Conditional
to construct an extension to existing dwelling house with associated modifications to existing dwelling house and to relocate existing site entrance with all associated works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 96.00 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460648
26 Jan 2024N/a
of: (1) plant room shed, (2) extension to plant room shed, and (3) construction of a new domestic garage and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 50.76 (garage) sqm & 21.04 sqm (extension). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 3.9 sqm
Retention · Galway County Council, 2460080
18 Oct 2023Refused
to: (a) construct an extension to existing dwellinghouse with associated modifications to existing dwellinghouse, (b) to construct a domestic garage, (c) to relocate existing site entrance with all associated works & services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361249
14 Feb 2023Conditional
of changes to existing dwelling as constructed (previously granted under PP no: 01/4809) to include habitable space to attic. Retention permission is also sought for domestic garage as constructed and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 79.30sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360115
5 Oct 2021Conditional
for a garage of 54sqm adjacent to my house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 54 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211835
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 Parkgarve.
Recorded monuments
- GA070-095 Enclosure
Description
In low-lying grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 60m). A house has been built here and no visible surface trace of the monument survives. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Parkgarve.
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 Parkgarve, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Parkgarve.
- 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 Parkgarve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Parkgarve · An Pháirc Gharbh
- Area
- 232,562 m² (23.26 ha, 57.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lackagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Deerpark, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,440 people lived in 449 households in the Deerpark electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvoher, Barnaboy, Derrymaclaughna, Garraun, Mira
- Placenames
- Parkgarve 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.