Chapelpark

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chapelpark, from 990 m² to 148,146 m² (14.81 ha, 36.61 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 Chapelpark 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.

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house and dometic garage with all ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 215.90sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17536

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 Chapelpark.

Recorded monuments

• GA088-004 Cross
  Description

  On roadside, 430m SSW of Clontuskert Abbey (GA088-001----). Only one piece of the shaft of this limestone cross (Wth 0.22m, H 0.45m), octagonal in section, survives. It stands in a broken rectangular limetone base (L 0.5m, Wth 0.4m, H 0.12m) which has a chamfered edge around the socket. The shaft and base stand on top of a small subcircular earthen mound (E-W 4.8m, N-S 4.4m, H 0.5m). 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

• GA099-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular ringfort (D 34m) defined by a bank of earth and stone from SW through W to NW, and elsewhere by a scarp. A ringfort (GA099-082----) lies c. 120m to N, and a second (GA099-058----) c. 250m to E. 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

• GA099-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Some 250m E of a ringfort (GA099-057----) Circular rath (D 30m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. A gap (Wth 1.7m) at NE may be original. 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

• GA099-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On SE-facing slope of a ridge in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (NNW-SSE, 41m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone best preserved from N to NE. Possible external fosse survives from SW through W to NNW. From S through W to N, a mound of collapsed stone overlies the enclosing element. A gap (Wth 1.9m) at SSE could be original. 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

• GA100-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 31.5m, E-W 28m) defined by a stone-lined bank which survives from SE to S, and from W to N where it is cut by a trackway. Elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. 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

• GA100-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low hummock in grassland. Subcircular ringfort (NW-SE 28.5m, NE-SW 23.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank which may have been faced with stone. A gap (Wth 2.5m) at SE could be original. From N to NE there are tentative traces of an intervening fosse and outer bank; the latter is overlain by a field bank. 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 Chapelpark.

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 Chapelpark, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Chapelpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Chapelpark · Páirc an tSéipéil

Area

991,258 m² (99.13 ha, 244.95 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Clontuskert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

218 people lived in 90 households in the Clontuskert electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeypark, Barnpark, Cappagh, Crossconnell More, Glenaun, Gorteencahill, Lakefield

Placenames

Chapelpark 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.