Parkeenalougha
Parkeenalougha is a townland in the civil parish of Kilrush, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Páircín an Locha.
Parcel 2892894
- Area
- 16,422 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- C7 CD (WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028) The objective
G1 OS (WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028) The objective
R1 R1 (WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028) The objective - Townland
- Parkeenalougha
Planning applications on this parcel
26 Mar 2026Conditional
to install 3 no. Padel Courts with fencing enclosures, roof covers & all associated works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660193
13 Nov 2024Conditional
install an all-weather synthetic playing pitch with associated flood lighting, perimeter fencing and ball stop netting, install a 2 metre wide walking track, erect a telecommunications structure and all other associated site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460670
27 Jul 2023Conditional
to replace existing grass playing pitch with all-weather synthetic surface and associated works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2360324
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1860 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 4.3 ha
- 11 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 21,613 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres)
- Zoning
- R1
- R1
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkeenalougha, from 16,422 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres) to 26,803 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R1R1 (New/proposed residential)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C7CD (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2RS (Existing residential)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS (Open space, park)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4SRR (Strategic Residential Reserve)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Mar 2026Conditional
to install 3 no. Padel Courts with fencing enclosures, roof covers & all associated works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660193
13 Nov 2024Conditional
install an all-weather synthetic playing pitch with associated flood lighting, perimeter fencing and ball stop netting, install a 2 metre wide walking track, erect a telecommunications structure and all other associated site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460670
27 Jul 2023Conditional
to replace existing grass playing pitch with all-weather synthetic surface and associated works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2360324
11 Oct 2018Conditional
for the change of use of a portion of the existing hardware store to a cafe along with all associated site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 18689
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Parkeenalougha.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Parkeenalougha.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Parkeenalougha.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Parkeenalougha, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1860 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Parkeenalougha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Parkeenalougha · Páircín an Locha
- Area
- 43,229 m² (4.32 ha, 10.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrush, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Dungarvan No. 1 Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,102 people lived in 2,067 households in the Dungarvan No. 1 Urban electoral division. 47% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnahila, Kilrush (Power), Parkeenaflugh
- Placenames
- Parkeenalougha 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.