Park

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Park, from 53 m² to 163,126 m² (16.31 ha, 40.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Park 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.

• 12 Feb 2018Conditional

  A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/ FUEL SHED, INSTALL SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1859

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments

• OF022-029 House - 17th century
  Description

  In pasture, with good views in all directions. Only the E gable (ext. L 8m) and a short section of the W gable (H 1.8m; L. 2.4m x 3,2m; Wall T 1.-2-1.6m) of this possible late 17th century house (ext. dims. c. 8m N-S x 24m E-W; wall T 1.2-1.6m) survives incorporated into the outhouse attached to the W gable of a single storey post-1700 cottage. The E gable is surmounted by a chunky rectangular-shaped chimney stack which serves a large ground floor fireplaced which projects into the ground floor room which is now used as an outhouse attached to the single storey cottage. Annotated 'Park Old Ho.' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map where the house is approached by a long avenue to S which connects onto the public road located 210m to the S. The roadway runs past the W gable of the house and runs N towards the bog located 580m to N. The Books of Survey and Distribution for County Offaly recorded that in 1640 the lands of 'Parke & Blundellsberry' belonged to Sir Arthur Blundell of Blundellstown, (alias Lumcloon), King's County who in 1642 was Governor of Fort Falkland (OF021-003007-) in the town of Banagher located 3.8km to the SW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by James Scully Date of upload: 2 September 2021

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1905, with insignia ER VII and crown motif. Maker’s mark ‘W.T. Allen & Co. London’ to base. Mounted within rendered wall.

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 Park, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1585 (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 Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Park · An Pháirc

Area

2,379,070 m² (237.91 ha, 587.88 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Shannonharbour, the unit of the census

Census 2022

363 people lived in 132 households in the Shannonharbour electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attinkee, Balliver, Bullock Island, Clonony Beg, Cornamona, Curraghlahan, Cushcallow or Cloncallow, Minus Island

Placenames

Park 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.