Hollypark

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hollypark, from 2,604 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 148,684 m² (14.87 ha, 36.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Hollypark 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Hollypark 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 the townland of Hollypark.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-109 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Hollypark House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1790 but modified c.1830, having three-bay east side elevation, two-storey return to rear (south) elevation, and single and two-storey extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and cut limestone eaves course. Rendered walls with openings of front and middle openings of east elevation set in recessed panels. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor, double two-over-four pane window to central bay of front, and nine-over-six pane to ground floor, with tooled limestone sills throughout. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door, with margined glazing and tooled limestone steps. Ranges of single and two-storey outbuildings to south-west of site ranged around courtyard, having slate and artificial slate roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls to seven-bay south-west range, middle bay being two-storey and having segmental carriage arch. Rendered walls to north-west range and dressed limestone walls to three-bay two-storey south-east range. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and mixed fixed timber fittings, timber casement and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Segmental-arched openings to south-east and south-west ranges. Set within own grounds. Gateway to road.

• Hollypark House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Hollypark House, erected c.1860. Cast-iron double-leaf gates flanked by cast-iron pedestrian gates, all flanked by tapering square-profile carved limestone piers having moulded capstones, cut-stone plinths,and with round-headed detail to front of shafts. Rounded limestone wheel guards to front. Rubble stone quadrant walls. Rubble stone boundary walls to gate lodge. Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1860, with gabled porch to front (north-east) elevation and recent two-bay extension with pitched roof to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door.

• Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1955–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, dated 1959, with tetrastyle portico to front (north-east) elevation, six-bay nave elevation, single-bay chancel, sacristy behind latter, and with square-plan three-stage bell tower attached to south-east end of front elevation, attached by above ground connecting passage. Pitched slate roof to nave, with cast-iron cross finials, cast-iron rainwater goods and render eaves course, render broken-based pediment to front gable. Hipped slate roof to chancel, flat roof to sacristy, and pyramidal sheet metal roof to tower. Pebbledashed walls with rendered plinth, carved limestone date plaque and flanking rendered pseudo-pilasters to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with leaded stained glass, triple windows to sacristy, oculus stained-glass windows to front and chancel gables, render sills throughout, with render surrounds to nave windows. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door having overlight, approached by concrete steps, set in rendered portico with cylindrical piers having capitals and surmounted by frieze and moulded cornice. Interior has marble altar furniture, rendered coffered ceiling, round chancel arch, timber panelled gallery, and timber confessional. Vehicular entrance to front of site without gates, flanked by steel pedestrian gates with flanking rendered piers, and pebbledashed boundary walls to front of site. Graveyard to rear of site with upstanding grave markers. Set back from road with lawns to front.

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 Hollypark, 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 Hollypark.

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

Name

Hollypark · An Cárán

Area

540,145 m² (54.01 ha, 133.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Moyode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

297 people lived in 100 households in the Moyode electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynageeragh, Cahercormick, Cappagh North, Carrownamorrissy, Cregg, Creggaturlough, Garrankyle East, Garrankyle West, Glebe, Gortagowan, Lissalondoon

Placenames

Hollypark 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.