Park

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Park, from 2,322 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 338,769 m² (33.88 ha, 83.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

• 24 Apr 2026Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling house and the construction of a new dwelling house with; a domestic garage, an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660631

• 8 Feb 2019Conditional

  for new development to include: new silage slab, concrete aprons and all associated site ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 429 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19169

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  for a domestic garage/fuel store on the site of the existing dwelling (Gross floor space 45sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17333

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 Park.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-168 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  Within a moated site (GA099-168001-). Named in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 648) as 'Cloch na pairce (pratirupes)'. Very poorly preserved two-storey rectangular building (L >14.7m, Wth c. 10.7m), probably of 13th-C date. Only sections of S, W and N walls survive, and a small fragment at SE corner. These display traces of a sharp base-batter The remains of narrow slit windows with wide internal splays are visible in each wall on the ground floor. 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

• GA099-168001 Moated site
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Very poorly preserved almost square enclosure (N-S c. 45m, E-W c. 45m) defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse, best preserved along N and E sides. A field wall overlies the enclosing elements at S. A hall-house (GA099-168----) lies just inside SW corner. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Park.

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Park.

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. Galway.

Name

Park · An Pháirc

Area

853,256 m² (85.33 ha, 210.84 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Oatfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 149 households in the Oatfield electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyluoge, Ballyterrim, Cloonkeen East, Cooltymurraghy, Lurgan Little

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.