Townparks (2nd Division)

339 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townparks (2nd Division), from 1 m² to 38,551 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 188 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 106 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Business and Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 36 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct alterations to the elevations of existing dwelling and increase the overall roof height of the existing dwelling along with all associated services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26186

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  for a large scale residential development (LRD) comprising of the following: a) the demolition of the existing derelict dwelling house and existing sheds, b) construction of 149 no. residential units comprising of: a.16 no. 1 bed units b.26 no. 2 bed units c.99 no. 3 bed units d.8 no. 4 bed units, c) 1 no. creche facility and ancillary open space, refuse store, cycle parking and vehicle parking, d) alterations to exiting dwelling house entrance from R939 to provide vehicle and pedestrian entrance to proposed development, e) provision of 271 car parking spaces throughout proposed development, f) provision of 497 secure bicycle parking spaces throughout the development, including 80 short term visitor spaces, g) provision of communal open space including hard and soft landscaping including such as planting, paving and public lighting, h) provision of central play area with mix of features to central communal open space, i) provision of drainage systems including SUDS rain garden areas, j) provision of 1 no. ESB substation to service development, k) proposed connection to Galway County Council Part VIII development, LA07/25, and proposed future connections to adjacent residential developments and surrounding R2 lands. l) all other associated and ancillary development and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660906

• 17 Apr 2026Conditional

  is sought for: 1: the removal of two existing attached steel framed warehouses and their replacement with two new attached industrial warehouses measuring 40m x 45 m in total, 2: The provision of a separate stand-alone industrial warehouse measuring 10mx 40m, and 3: All associated services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660587

• 28 Jan 2026Conditional

  of the use of the first floor (GFA 133.88 sqm) of the Mall Medical Centre from storage use to public use of General Practitioner Consulting and medical related services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660110

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  for amalgamation of an existing retail unit (Units 9,10.11) with adjoining retail units 12, 13, 14 and 15A, and part change of use from a permitted retail unit to ancillary off-license sales (area for display of alcohol) and associated signage for the unit and associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561775

• 29 Aug 2025Conditional

  of the existing extensions to the dwelling house and renovate the existing vacant dwelling house. Full planning permission also sought to retain the existing domestic garage/store to the rear of the dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561211

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  and completion of changes to the previously granted domestic garage (21/1793) which includes changes to the façade and window fenestration along with change of use to the floor space to office use and a study room for the enjoyment of the existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 50 sqm(G)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560630

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  for change of use from office/storage to ground floor commercial, 3 no. residential units, internal variations and alterations to the elevations of the existing building, and all ancillary site works & site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 296.00 sqm(commercial)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560169

• 28 Nov 2024Conditional

  to construct one block consisting of 5 warehouse units and one block consisting of 4 warehouse units and to create an internal roadway & connect the proposed services to the existing town sewerage scheme together with all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1,692.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461623

• 4 Jul 2024Conditional

  for alterations to Xi'an Street Food restaurant. 1) Revision of layouts at ground, first and second floor. 2) Provision of new fire protected stairwell. 3) Provision of new lift. 4) Relocation of access door to front elevation to accommodate fire escape

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460828

• 6 Jun 2024Refused

  to construct one block consisting of 5 warehouse units and one block consisting of 4 warehouse units, to create an internal roadway, and to connect to the existing services, which in turn connect to the public road, and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1,692.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460680

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  for change of use from three disused 2 storey commercial units to three residential units with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 145 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460530

• 16 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the change of use of the garage to living quarters, also the rear and side extension of the dwelling house. Also, retention of the changes to the façade of the front and side of the existing dwelling house and the existing storage shed and boiler house at the rear of the dwelling house and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 5.633 sqm (extension), 12.34 sqm (garage), 5.8 sqm (shed) & 1 sqm (boiler)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460410

• 21 Dec 2023Refused

  to construct a domestic garage and to construct an extension to the existing alterations to the elevations of the existing dwelling house and increase the overall roof height of the existing dwelling house along with all associated service. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 51.9 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be demolished: 6.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23492

• 15 Dec 2023Conditional

  for construction of a new detached two storey dwelling house, single storey garage, replacement front boundary wall and entrance gate, side boundary fence and for the retention of a blockwork side boundary wall and all other ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 293 sqm (House) 33.50 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361514

• 13 Oct 2023Conditional

  for replacement of existing high level facia signage with specsavers corporate image, which includes illuminated pod, individual lettering to facia board & projecting sign, also 2 rows of manifestation to glazing on shopfront windows

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23416

• 14 Jun 2023N/a

  for development consisting of internal fit out of existing retail unit, including construction of first floor in order to provide additional floor space (92 sqm) for testing, ancillary areas & staff facilities. Also replacement of existing high level facia signage with Specsavers corporate signage, which includes illuminated pod, individual lettering to facia board & projecting sign, also 2 rows of manifestation to glazing on Shopfront windows

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23240

• 30 Mar 2023Conditional

  for change of use of existing building from residential to a day service for people with intellectual disabilities and for modification of elevations and internal layout

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23129

• 2 Sept 2022Conditional

  for; (A) change of use from previous domestic shed to retail and (B) to construct an extension to the existing building, alterations to the elevations of the existing building and increase the overall floor height of the existing building along with all associated services. Please note that the building subject to the change of use, the new extension and alterations are to be connected into the adjoining unit which was previously approved under planning ref. number P 20/1623. Gross floor space of proposed works: 54.4 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221020

• 25 Aug 2022Conditional

  for the change of use of the ground floor of a former bookshop for use as a gaming/amusement arcade with ancillary office and service areas. At first floor level the proposed development includes storage and staff welfare areas serving the proposed ground floor use. Ancillary development works include internal alterations and elevational changes to the existing building including the provision of a new access door from Vicar Street serving the buildings first floor. Gross floor space of proposed works: 445.7sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22998

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  and continuation of the use as a storage depot of the existing building granted under previous planning permission reference number 17/1099 and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 190 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22893

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  for a development consisting of: Shopfront alterations to a protected structure (Ref No. 30331013) which comprise of: fitting of new branded signage (after removal of existing signage/or over existing signage) onto existing shopfront, replacement of existing ATM with new ATM (location retained). 2No. internally located digital marketing LED screens, to be viewed externally through the existing glazing. Minor internal alterations to existing front banking hall to consist of new internal SSBM/ATMs within a new room. These proposed works are to a protected structure. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 418sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22721

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  to retain the existing shed and change the use of it to commercial store for the storage of domestic fuel products to be used in conjunction with the existing business. 1. Full planning permission also sought to carry out changes to the front façade of the existing shed which is to be retained. 2. Full planning permission also sought to erect an extension to the existing shed which will be used for a light DIY store and for light hardware, this extension will have a link passage to the existing convenience store and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 105sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 44 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 52 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22599

• 9 Mar 2022Refused

  for the construction of 18 residential units and ancillary site services.

  Outline permission · Galway County Council, 22316

• 29 Sept 2021Conditional

  to demolish the existing single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling house and to construct a new extension to the existing dwelling house. Full planning permission also sought to construct a storage shed/fuel store and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 58 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211793

The 25 most recent of 50 applications.

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 Townparks (2nd Division).

Recorded monuments

• GA029-177 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In NW suburbs of Tuam town (GA029-199----), 100m NNE of the 'Abbey of the Holy Trinity' (GA029-178----); formerly in level marshy grassland but now surrounded by a housing estate. Well-preserved spring well defined by a circular cemented limestone wall, capped by a series of limestone blocks and opening out to S. Access is gained via a series of steps. It may have been associated with the abbey. Another possible holy well (GA029-175----) lies 160m to NNE. 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

• GA029-178 Religious house - Premonstratensian canons
  Description

  On W outskirts of Tuam town (GA029-199----) in low-lying pasture prone to flooding, its site is now occupied by a housing estate. This abbey, a daughter house of the Premonstratensian Canons, was probably founded c. 1203-4 by William de Burgo (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 206-7). Described in the early 13th C as being situated 'in the suburbs of the metropolis of Tuam' (ibid.). According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 62-3), 'a considerable part of it remained till the year 1791, when Archdeacon Burton carried off the stones for the building of a house'. Depicted on James Morris's 1720 map of Tuam as a H-shaped building aligned N-S. The 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) indicates an oblong mound (WNW-ESE c. 45m, NNE-SSW c. 25m), but this appears to have been destroyed by road building and house construction in the mid-1970s during which time human remains were unearthed (Ó Murchú 1970, 13-14). A commemorative roadside plaque marks the site. A holy well (GA029-177----) lies 100m to NNE. 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

• GA029-178001 Burial
  Description

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• GA029-179001 Cathedral
  Description

  At S end of high St., in the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----). It is now sandwiched between the 19th-C Protestant cathedral of St Mary and the 14th-C Synod Hall (GA029-179002-). A Romanesque nave and chancel church built in the late 12th C (Clyne 1988, 90). The nave was destroyed by fire in 1767 (ibid.) but the chancel, square in plan (L c. 5.5m), with its fine barrel-vaulted roof survives. This was subsequently used as a porch for the adjoining Synod Hall. A Nat. Mon., the surviving architectural features include an outstanding ornate Romanesque chancel arch of six orders supported by coulumns, three decorated round-headed Romanesque windows in E gable, and another in S wall (Leask 1977, 153-4). (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 98-100; Harbison 1975, 101-2; Stalley 1981) 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

• GA029-179002 Cathedral
  Description

  Adjoining the Romanesque cathedral (GA029-179001-) at E, it now forms E end of the 19th-C Gothic revival cathedral of St Mary. Popularly known as the 'Synod Hall', this substantial building appears to have been designed as the choir of a new cathedral, 'evidently part of a scheme, never completed, to rebuild the whole cathedral' (Leask 1960a, 131). Its construction can be tied down to the first decades of the 14th C, under the stewardship of Archbishop William de Bermingham (Clyne 1988, 90). It consist of a rectangular choir (E-W; L 21.65m, Wth 8.2m), built on the same line and axis as N side-wall of the Romanesque cathedral (ibid., 92), and entered through a high pointed arch doorway at W end. The present oblique entrance, in SW corner, is of uncertain date. In the 18th or early 19th C, the chancel of the adjoining Romansesque cathedral was converted into a W porch and entrance (see Ó Murchú 1970, 49, also 9-10; Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 647). The side-walls are lit by three tall pointed double- and triple-light traceried windows, flanked externally by substantial weathered buttresses. In E gable is a fine five-light traceried window (Leask 1960a, 131-2). The side-walls are capped by a continuous arcaded corbel course which carries a reconstructed 19th-C crenellated parapet. A tall slender 'friary-like tower', probably of 15th-C date, surmounted the junction of the Synod Hall and the Romanesque chancel until the mid-19th C, when it was 'swept away' during the construction of the Gothic revival cathedral (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 444); only the stump now remains. Excavations outside its N wall in 1986 revealed wall foundations and burials, including two with scallop shells, indicating pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella (Clyne ibid., 99-101). 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

• GA029-179003 Graveyard
  Description

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• GA029-179004 Cross - High cross
  Description

  In St Mary's (C of I) Cathedral (GA029-179002-), in Tuam town (GA029-199----). According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 48-9), it 'was found sunk under the earth, where the Communnion [sic] table is now, inside the church', i.e., e end of the 'Synod Hall'. It consists of the shaft of a 12th-C sandstone cross (H 1.45m, L 0.45m, Wth 0.25m), the edges of which are defined by rolled and cavetto mouldings. The broad faces are decorated in animal interlace and fretwork patterns, while the narrow sides bear two inscriptions, as follows: (a) 'Prayer for the King, Turdelbuch O'Conor [/] Prayer for the wright Gill Christ O'Toole', and (b) 'Prayer for the successor of Iarlath, for Aed O Hossin who had the cross made' (Harbison 1992, 177, no. 218) 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

• GA029-179005 Cross - High cross
  Description

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• GA029-179006 Cross - High cross (present location)
  Description

  In St Mary's (C of I) Cathedral (GA029-179002-), in Tuam town (GA029-199----), to which it was moved in 1990 from the Market Square. Known as 'The Market Cross', as presently constituted it comprises fragments of two separate sandstone crosses of mid-12th-C date: (a) the base and shaft, and (b) the head (see GA029-179007-). It was assembled from scattered fragments for the Great Industrial Exhibition in Dublin in 1853: the base originally stood in 'the old shambles' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 47) which was on W side of Vicar St. Though subsequently returned, it was not erected in the Market Square until 1874. The square tapering base (L 1.65m, Wth 1.1m, H 0.65m) bears the inscription: 'Prayer for Turloch O'Conor ... of Iarlath by whom was made' (Harbison 1992, 175, no. 216). There are also two small circular vertical holes, and two pairs of figures in high relief, on the opposing faces. On the tapering rectangular shaft (L 0.7m, Wth 0.3m, H 2.9m), there is a small square hole on one of the narrow faces and a rectangular hole on the upper part of one of the broad faces. Both base and shaft are covered in lightly carved Urnes-style ornament. (Claffey 1966; Henry 1970, 140-3) 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 This monument was taken into Guardianship under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 505.

• GA029-179007 Cross - High cross (present location)
  Description

  Now forms part of 'The Market Cross' (GA029-179006-), Tuam. What survives is a ringed head (H 1.1m, Wth 1.2m) of sandstone, of mid-12th-C date. It bears a figure of Christ crucified on one face and that of a bishop, flanked by two pairs of small figures, on the other, all in high relief. There are also a number of figures on the ends of the arms, while the undersides of the arms and ring are decorated with interlace and a chequer pattern. The head sprang from a rectangular shaft (L 0.35, Wth 0.25m) and it is crowned by a tenon (H 0.05m). (Harbison 1992, 175-6, no. 217) 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

• GA029-179008 Cathedral
  Description

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• GA029-179009 Building
  Description

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• GA029-179010 Burial
  Description

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• GA029-179011 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Higgins report (1992) on his investigations (Licence No. 92E0160) along a 2m-wide trench excavated as part of the Tuam main drainage scheme ‘produced evidence of a cobbled surface or surfaces over an area of several hundred sq. m. It was cut across in places by a late stone-lined field drain and the 19th-century garden plot to the rear of houses in Vicar St had destroyed some of the cobbling. The cobbled surface had been parched in some places and dug into in others and extended both within and without a thick cashel-like wall which had been substantially robbed out. This enclosing feature had been reduced to a mound of earth and small stones on which only a short segment of the outer facing of large stones survived. The facing was, however, discernible in the field to either side of the excavated area. This large enclosing wall had been robbed out in the late medieval or post-medieval period. The cobbled surface post-dated the robbed out enclosure.’ The cashel-like wall was interpreted as an ‘arc of what was presumed to be an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure running from the grounds of the Cathedral in the direction of Tuam Mart . . .’ The coordinates for this enclosure are based on the above descriptive account and can only be considered as indicative of the location. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 27 March 2017

• GA029-180001 Church
  Description

  Within a probably early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA029-180003-). Confused by some authors (Grose 1791, vol. 1, 64; Leask 1960a, 72; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 444) with the 'Abbey of the Holy Trinity' (GA029-178----). The remains consists of a poorly preserved rectangular 13th-C parish church (E-W; L. c. 21m, Wth c. 7m) with a later tower at W end. Of the church, only E gable survives intact along with the adjoining sections of N and S side-walls, and a fragment at NW corner. There is a fine triple-light pointed arch Transitional window (Leask ibid., 72-3, 75), now partially blocked, in E gable. In the masonry above it are a number of Romanesque heads (Leask ibid., 161-2; Andersen 1975), probably from an earlier church. A modern burial vault abuts E end of N wall. The square W tower, U-shaped in plan, abutted W gable wall. Two storeys survive with a modern vault between ground/1st floor and a robbed single-light window in W wall on 1st floor; the interior of the ground floor is plastered and occupied by a tomb. (Costello 1902a; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 31, 46; Ó Murchú 1970, 12-13; Harbison 1975, 101-2; Bradley and Dunne 1992, 173-4) 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

• GA029-180002 Graveyard
  Description

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• GA029-180003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On S side of High St., in the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----), and 150m NE of St Mary's Cathedral (GA029-179001-, GA029-179002-); the site would originally have overlooked a large marshy area immediately to NW. The remains comprise a large raised and roughly D-shaped graveyard, at E end of which is a ruined church (GA029-180001-). The curving SE graveyard wall probably preserves part of the circumference of a large, possibly semicircular, enclosure (E-W >100m). Its line is evident from ENE through E to S, principally to S of High St., where S section of Church Lane follows the curving line of the graveyard wall, and also for a short distance of N of it in a property boundary. Swan (1985, 89) has also postulated the existence of large concentric outer enclosure in the slightly curving axes of Vicar St. and Shop St. but there is little evidence to support this. A cross-slab (GA029-180004-) is associated (Higgins 1987, 379, no. 99). (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 31, 46; Bradley and Dunne 1992, 172) 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

• GA029-180005 Cross
  Description

  This cross was recorded by Higgins (1987, ii, 385, no. 185) who noted it outside the E window of 'Temple Jarlath' (GA029-180001-). It is of sandstone (H 0.7m; Wth across the arms 0.41m; Wth of shaft 0.23m; T 0.05m) and is set loosely in the ground. It appears to be in a secondary position. The cross is roughly cut and the right-hand arm is almost completely gone. A spall has been knocked off the left arm. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 May 2018

• GA029-181 Church
  Description

  In the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----), on W side of Chapel Lane. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'Old R.C. Chapel'. A number of ruinous walls, mainly of domestic character, now occupy the site. Amongst these, a N-S running wall, with a large blocked-up rectangular window (Wth 1.45m, H 3.4m) framed by undressed masonry, may represent the last vestiges of the church. A commemorative plaque, located nearby in Chapel Lane, records that it was built in 1783. 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

• GA029-182 Water mill - vertical-wheeled
  Description

  On S bank of the River Nanny, in Chapel Lane, close to the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Known locally as the 'Bridge or Little Mill', this is a four-storey vertical undershot watermill fed by a short race. According to Mayer-Jones (1974, 1-14), it 'was first built in the 17th century by a man called Corcoran' but it may occupy the site of a medieval mill. It originally consisted of two storeys until its renovation in 1922 when it was raised to its present height. Still in working order and open seasonally as a mill museum. 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

• GA029-214 Kiln - pottery
  Description

  In the course of a watching brief (Licence No. 92E00181) undertaken as part of the Tuam main drainage scheme in 1992-3 a pottery kiln was discovered on the north side of High Street. The kiln 'was constructed of hand-made red brick, with a small, retaining wall of limestone at its southern end. It survives to a maximum height of 0.65m and measures 3.9m north-south and 1.74m east-west. The proximity of the kiln to the arch and more especially, to the wall on the west side of it, made it impossible to excavate completely, though the east side of the kiln was thoroughly investigated. Excavations revealed the kiln wall was only 200mm thick and there was redeposited clay and stones packed against it on the east side. This suggests the surviving portion of the kiln was built into the old ground surface. Excavation under the kiln show that its northern portion was built directly onto bedrock. The kiln was removed completely.' (Connolly 1992). In relation to the pottery sherds recovered from the kiln Meenan (1996, 106) notes that it was not possible to propose a precise date on the base of form. However, it is suggested that 'the kiln was in production in the 18th century probably having been destroyed when the barracks in High Street was built. The range of milk pans and dish/bowls would be consistent with an 18th century date though it is less likely that they pre-date 1700 or even the first decades of the 18th century.’ (Connolly 1996) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 28 March 2017

Architectural heritage

• The Little Mill, mill (water), 1800–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached watermill, built c.1825, comprising three-bay four-storey block of c.1850 and slightly recessed three-bay three-storey slightly later block. Taller block has pitched corrugated-iron roof and lime-rendered walls with string course between first and second floors. Square-headed window openings with four-pane timber windows. Shorter block has lean-to corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls. Further thickness of wall to ground floor of elevation of three-storey block may have belonged to an earlier building. Cast-iron mill wheel to north gable of taller block, with wooden paddles and standing in mill race.

• Congress House, house, 1840–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, one of four similar houses in terrace and having shopfront of c.1945 to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with name 'Congress House' in raised letters between top floors, and render quoins. Square-headed window openings with late nineteenth-century one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Shopfront has simple pilasters with entasis and moulded plinths and with scroll brackets having fasciaboard between bearing name 'McDonagh's' in old Irish script and establishment date 1945, and plate-glass windows with recessed shop door. Square-headed replacement timber door to house with plain overlight.

• Ulster Bank, bank/financial institution, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey limestone-fronted bank, built c.1885. Pitched slate roof with rusticated stone gables, and ashlar chimneystacks with cornices, and rectangular rainwater hoppers and cast-iron downpipes. Rusticated stone façade with Ionic cornice with dentils and a blocking course, and having plat-band over ground floor with 'Ulster Bank' in raised limestone lettering. Square-headed window openings with chamfered cut-stone surrounds with tooled limestone sills supported by moulded brackets, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed cut-stone doorcase with angle-bead mouldings and inner limestone frame, rectangular overlight, and heavy timber door with six raised and fielded panels. Cast-iron railing set on low stone plinth wall. Flanking ground floor of building are tall limestone walls decorated with tall narrow panels supporting scroll backets and rectangular blocks with Red Hand of Ulster in circular frames.

• House, 1820–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited terraced building, built c.1830 and remodelled c.1890, comprising two three-bay three-storey former houses on Shop Street, northern being slightly lower, and having three and four-bay three-storey elevation to High Street. Recent shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with parallel raised quoins. Square-headed windows having render surrounds to Shop Street and to first floor on High Street, with pulvinated friezes and moulded cornices to first floor and moulded surrounds to top floor. Mainly timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to High Street, one being double, and Shop Street having two-over-two pane to top floor and one-over-one pane to first floor. Some replacement uPVC to top floor on High Street. High Street façade has pedimented doorcase with simple pilasters and moulded plinths.

• Saint Mary's Cathedral, cathedral, 1160–1865 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding multi-period Church of Ireland cathedral of Tuam, incorporating Hiberno-Romanesque chancel arch of c.1170 of earlier cathedral at centre, fourteenth-century chapter house at east, and cathedral of 1863 at west. Ribbon-pointed random rubble limestone walls to oldest part, with no contemporary windows except for single pointed window to south elevation. Chapter house altered at various periods but retains stepped buttresses supporting wall-walk, latter further supported on moulded corbels and topped with crenellations. Buttresses have trefoil-headed niches. Two and three-light pointed windows with chamfered surrounds, hood-mouldings with stops, and tracery. Windows possibly remodelled in eighteenth century, including one with timber tracery. Junction of early phases has square-headed slit windows. Nineteenth-century cathedral is set-piece on its own though connected at east end to earlier work. Walls of rusticated limetone with short nave flanked by aisles, tower and spire over crossing, transepts and chancel. Nave has high-pitched west front with pointed west door flanked by arcade of two blank arches on either side (an adaptation of St Cronan's Church, Roscrea), with five-light lancet west window above and mandorla-shaped window high in gable. Label-stops left boasted for carving in this front and other facades of building. Five-bay nave has corbel table under crenellations, an adaptation of chapter house, round windows in clerestorey and pointed windows in aisles. Transepts are reflection of west front having pointed doorcases and five-light lancet windows. Tower only rises single stage above roofline and has clasping turrets and crowstep crenellations with octagonal spire. Paired, pointed windows with louvres in tower. Tower and spire are adaptation of Saint Patrick's Cathedral tower and spire in Dublin. Chancel has two bays and tall walls and two tall pointed windows. Entrance gates opposite north transept have tall rubble limestone piers and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. To east of cathedral is yew avanue leading to rubble limestone stone piers and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace attached five-bay three-storey house, built c.1810. Pitched slate roof with lined and ruled rendered tall deep chimneystacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Cement rendered walls with raised cement quoins. Square-headed windows with replacement uPVC glazing, and limestone sills. Cement render doorcase of early twentieth century having panelled pilasters with plinths and scroll brackets supporting moulded cornice having decorative feature above. Rendered boundary plinth wall to front with ornate cast-iron railings and gate piers of c.1900.

• Mall House, house, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace attached five-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built 1782. Pitched slate roof, having rooflights, tall deep cement-rendered chimneystacks, and replacment rainwater goods. Cement-rendered ruled and lined walls with parallel raised quoins. Square-headed windows with replacement uPVC glazing, and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed doorway with cement raised quoins at head of flight of cast-iron steps with cast-iron railings. Rendered boundary plinth wall to front with rounded limestone copings and decorative cast-iron railings.

• Public house, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Mid-row three-bay three-storey public house, built c.1880. Pitched slate roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods, brick chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with raised vermiculated quoins, and string-course at first floor sill level. Square-headed window openings with replacment windows, decorative plaster dressings comprising fluted pilasters with scroll brackets supporting cornices, first floor also having pediments, and second floor having brackets under sills, and brackets over cornices which support eaves cornice. Recent fasciaboard to ground floor. Square-headed doorway with detailing similar to that of windows, having timber panelled door and plain overlight.

• Public house, 1860–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of row three-bay two-storey public house, built c.1870 and renovated c.1920. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Painted and rendered walls. Square-headed timber casement windows to first floor with stained glass in panes above transoms.Pub front has fluted pilasters standing on polished granite bases and supporting fasciaboard having name in stained glass. Display windows have Harry Clarke stained glass and engraved display windows with words 'Rustic Vaults, Bar, Grocery'.

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Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_707 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Townparks (2nd Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Townparks (2nd Division) · Páirceanna an Bhaile (an dara roinnt)

Area

415,818 m² (41.58 ha, 102.75 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Tuam Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tuam Urban electoral division: 3,924 people in 1,659 households; 50% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloontooa, Corralea West, Farrannamartin, Glebe, Killaloonty, Tirboy, Townparks (1st Division), Townparks (3rd Division), Vicarschoral Land

Placenames

Townparks (2nd Division) 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.