Parkroe

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkroe, from 425 m² to 147,089 m² (14.71 ha, 36.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Parkroe 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.

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a single storey rear and side extension, and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 54.7 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 152 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21563

• 9 Dec 2020N/a

  for the modifications (storage basement and associated variations to levels) to dwelling house granted under planning reference number 05/3955 and 05/1791. Gross floor space of work to be retained; 777sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 201875

• 5 Nov 2019Conditional

  for façade and internal amendments to the existing dwelling and garage, including the demolition of existing annexed front porch and rear sun room. It includes a minor extension to the rear of the house and a front porch and all associated landscaping and services amendments. Gross floor space of proposed works: 14 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 28 sqm (Porch & rear conservatory)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191726

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Cregganna Marsh SPA 004142
• Natural Heritage Area: Cregganna Marsh NHA 000253

Recorded monuments

• GA095-115 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the E limits of an area of rocky scrub and marshland, and to the S of a former cluster of houses. Named 'Toberroe' in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the OS 6-inch maps, this well consists of a rectangular subterranean drystone chamber (L 3.4m; Wth 0.75m) constructed of rounded limestones (L 0.5m max.) and roofed by three stone lintels. Access is gained via a series of steps. On inspection, the water was approximately 1m deep. The well appeared to be disused and was overgrown with thorns and brambles. No evidence of any religious association was noted and, according to local information, the well was only ever used to provide domestic water (SMR file). Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 May 2023

• GA095-116 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in pastureland, overlooking marshland to the SW. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 139, no. 32) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 51.8m) cut by a field wall from E to W; the ‘entire northern portion’ of it had been 'destroyed' but traces of the levelled bank were visible in the field to the N of the bisecting wall. No visible surface trace survives. (Athy 1914, 134) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017

• GA095-117 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a hollow in low-lying farmland, immediately SW of the main Galway-Ennis road. A spring is named ‘Tobersruhlin’, in Gothic script, on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. However, on the 1920 edition, the name is appended to a well c. 30m to the NW. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 312), the name ‘Tobar Sruithlinn’ is ‘locally explained as signifying the well of the little stream’ and it was not ‘a perpetual spring’ as it sometimes dried up. On inspection, it was found that the natural spring fed the well, which was defined by a small drystone well-chamber roofed with one capstone. There were no votive offerings at either location or anything to suggest they were of ritual significance. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 May 2023

• GA095-118 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 43.7m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank and fosse are best preserved from SW to NW; elsewhere the bank has been levelled and pushed into the fosse, however, its line is indicated by a low scarp. The outer bank survives at S and from SW to NW. No visible surface trace survives of the stone-facing noted by McCaffrey (1952, 139-40, no. 35). (Athy 1914, 134) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Parkroe, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_624 (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.

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

Name

Parkroe · An Pháirc Rua

Area

430,365 m² (43.04 ha, 106.35 acres)

Civil parish

Oranmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Clarinbridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,143 people lived in 1,459 households in the Clarinbridge electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cregganna Beg, Cregganna More, Moneymore West, Oranhill, Rockhill, Tonroe

Placenames

Parkroe 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.