Parkmore

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkmore, from 81 m² to 130,820 m² (13.08 ha, 32.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

• R2Residential (Existing) (Existing residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Business and Technology (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  and completion of dwelling-house, and the installation of wastewater treatment system with polishing filter coupled with all necessary site works granted under Planning Register Reference Number 23/60723

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461747

• 2 Sept 2024Conditional

  of: (i) extension to the rear elevation of the existing dwelling, (ii) conversion of garage to habitable space and incorporation of same into existing dwelling, (iii) revised site boundaries and all ancillary site work. Permission for boundary treatment to the rear boundary of the site. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 47.20 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461155

• 29 Jun 2023Conditional

  for (1) renovation of & extension to existing dwellinghouse, (2) new wastewater treatment system & polishing filter, (3) renovation of existing garden shed on or abutting site boundary & all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360723

• 1 Jun 2023N/a

  for the construction of a business & technology plant of 7450sq.m, surface car & bicycle parking, landscaping, drainage connections along with associated signage & all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360588

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  of a 2 classroom building and permission also for the construction of a 3 new classroom modular single storey extension including drop-off and pick-up facilities, parking and all other associated services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 23195

• 24 Apr 2023N/a

  for the construction of a business and technology plant of 7450sq.m, surface car and bicycle parking, landscaping, drainage connections along with associated signage and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360413

• 6 Mar 2023N/a

  for the construction of a 3 classroom modular single storey extension and associated services. This site is located within a curtilage of a protected structure, Reference no. 2743. Gross floor space of proposed works: 434.9 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2378

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  to relocate the entrance to dwelling house and close up the existing entrance coupled with ancillary site works. Gross floor space of existing building is 44.27m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211044

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 214.26 sqm. Garage/fuel shed: 53.94 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21781

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  consisting of the construction of a new double height extension, with a net floor area of 269 square metres, to the east of the existing factory along with provision of new car parking, alterations to existing compound and all associated ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 269sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181733

• 21 Nov 2017Conditional

  for a two-storey Advanced Technology Building (ATB) of 1347sqm, surface car and bicycle parking, landscaping, drainage connections and all ancillary works on a site of 0.512ha. Gross floor space of proposed works 1347sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171670

• 16 Nov 2017Conditional

  for change of use from nursing home to community dwellinghouse, to demolish a portion of same, construct pitched roof to replace existing flat roof at the rear and construct new extension together with ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 59.44sqm. demolition 44.67sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171643

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  for development IDA Business Park Creagh, Parkmore, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. The development will consist of an extension to an existing carpark, including parking, lighting, surface water drainage & attenuation, petrol interceptor, new entrance & gates off the existing IDA estate road, an internal access road and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17643

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 Parkmore.

Recorded monuments

• GA074A006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Very poorly preserved originally circular rath (D 43m), defined by a tree-lined bank from S through W to N. No visible surface trace of it survives elsewhere, or of the external fosse noted by Rynne (Topgr. Files UCG). A gap (Wth 6.5m) at SW 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

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay former tuberculosis hospital, built c.1935, having five-bay two-storey central block, flanked by five-bay single-storey flat-roofed blocks that project slightly forward, in turn flanked by eight-bay single-storey wings with hipped roofs, with lean-to glazed cast-iron veranda to rear (south) elevation of wings. Now in use as nursing home. Hipped tiled roofs having ashlar limestone chimneystack to central block having raised panel, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked rock-faced rusticated limestone walls with concrete plinth course, rendered walls to rear elevation of wings. Square-headed window openings throughout, with cut-stone sills and chamfered concrete block-and-start surrounds to front and rear elevations of central block, with timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-nine panes to wings and to ground floor of central block, tripartite to central bay of front of central block, six-over-nine pane to rear first floor of central block and twelve-over-twelve to front first floor, and steel casement windows to flat-roofed projections. Window openings to rear elevation of wings having curved rendered reveals and sills and nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed main door opening to central block with double-leaf timber panelled doors with tripartite overlight, set in moulded limestone doorcase having cantilevered cornice. Square-headed door openings to veranda with glazed double-leaf doors with multipane overlights. Veranda supported on square-plan columns with plinths and moulded capitals, with glazed lean-to roof. Front elevation facing north with rear elevation and glazed veranda facing south.

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 Parkmore, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1378 (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 Parkmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Parkmore · An Pháirc Mhór

Area

442,728 m² (44.27 ha, 109.4 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycarn

Electoral division

Ballinasloe Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,361 people lived in 2,616 households in the Ballinasloe Urban electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Atticorra, Atticorra (Co. Roscommon), Creagh, Glentaun, Parkmore (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Parkmore 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.