Townparks

337 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townparks, from 0 m² to 164,369 m² (16.44 ha, 40.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 237 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  to install an Astro Turf Pitch, perimeter fencing and flood lighting at St. Mary’s National School, Townparks, Ballyhaise. Works to include provision of car parking area, the partial demolition of existing rear entrance and the widening of same and all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660464

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  to retain existing detached dormer domestic garage on bungalow site, known as ‘Woodbine Cottage’

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660447

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  for the demolition of part of existing public house to form new site entrance, demolition of existing outbuildings, erection of 28 no. fully serviced dwellings comprising of 14 no. 2 bed semi-detached two storey dwellings & 14 no. 3 bed semi-detached two storey dwellings, connection to public services, new service road, and all ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application

  Permission, 28 homes · Cavan County Council, 2660435

• 7 May 2026Conditional

  to erect fully serviced dormer style dwelling, detached domestic garage, partial demolition of existing boundary wall and form site entrance, connect to services and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660234

• 24 Apr 2026N/a

  to erect fully serviced dormer style dwelling, detached domestic garage, form entrance, connect to services and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660207

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  for development at this site: (c. 1.635 hectares) located to the north of Oakwood Lane, Townparks, Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan. The development will consist of the following: the construction of 34 residential units comprising 21 no. 2-bedroom dwellings, 12 no. 3–bedroom dwellings and 1 no. 4-bedroom dwelling with associated private open space, landscaping, car parking and vehicular entrance off Oakwood Lane. The development will cater for connections to infrastructure and will include boundary treatments, public lighting and all ancillary development works - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 34 homes · Cavan County Council, 2660204

• 17 Apr 2026N/a

  for the construction of 34 residential units comprising 21 no. 2-bedroom dwellings, 12 no. 3–bedroom dwellings and 1 no. 4-bedroom dwelling with associated private open space, landscaping, car parking and vehicular entrance off Oakwood Lane. The development will cater for connections to infrastructure and will include boundary treatments, public lighting and all ancillary development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660192

• 18 Oct 2025Conditional

  for completion of phase two of previously approved development works (granted approval under Planning Reg No 20/57). Phase One works have been completed and Phase Two shall comprise of the following: (a) New 2 story Club Rooms including 4 no. dressing rooms, meeting rooms, office space, and ancillary accommodation; (b) upgrading and widening of existing access road with a short retaining gabion stone wall section, entrance & public footpaths & lighting; (c) turnstiles and access gates; and (d) all connections and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560627

• 6 Aug 2025Conditional

  to complete a partially constructed housing development as previously approved under 06/1410 and 21/58. The development will consist of 16no semi-detached two-storey dwelling houses, connection to existing services, boundary treatments & all ancillary works-SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED

  Permission, 16 homes · Cavan County Council, 2560453

• 15 Jul 2025N/a

  TO COMPLETE A PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER 06/1410 AND 21/58. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF 16NO SEMI-DETACHED TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS & ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560390

• 3 Jul 2025N/a

  TO COMPLETE A PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER 06/1410 AND 21/58. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF 16NO SEMI-DETACHED TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS & ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560361

• 4 Mar 2025Conditional

  for alterations to two-storey detached dwelling currently under construction (Granted under planning reg. Ref. 22/389)

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560075

• 21 Oct 2024N/a

  for (i) Suckler shed extension (ii) Livestock underpass with effluent tank (iii) Sheep shed with underground slatted tanks, Wash & boot area, Medicine store, toilet, office and training room and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460506

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the provision of a total of 29no. residential units comprising of 18no. own-door units contained in 3no. two storey blocks (each block contains 3no. ground floor two bed units and 3no. first floor one bed units), 2no. detached single storey two bed houses, 6no. semi-detached two storey three bed houses and 3no. attached two storey three bed houses in a terrace of 3 units, form entrances, connection to public services, new service road & entrance and all associated works. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 29 homes · Cavan County Council, 2460162

• 24 Oct 2023Refused

  to install a 21m multi-user lattice type telecommunications support structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fenced compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works, including access track on lands

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360235

• 18 Jan 2023N/a

  for demolition of existing garage and construction of 3 storey split level building consisting of 8 No. Units (with 4 no. 1 Bed units & 4 no. 2 Bed Duplex units), connection to existing public services and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2310

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  retain alterations to previously approved development constructed under planning reference no 648006 which includes (a) retain non-habitable attic floor space, (b) retain alterations to plans / elevations including increased ridge height of part of dwelling, (c) retain position of house, entrance and front boundary wall and associated site works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 22528

• 30 Nov 2022Conditional

  for demolition of existing garage and construction of 3 storey split level building consisting of 8 No. Units (with 4 no. 1 bed units & 4 no. 2 bed duplex units), connection to existing public services and all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22484

• 30 Nov 2022Conditional

  to (A) increase height of existing first floor walls of dormer dwelling to form two storey dwelling and amend rood design, (B) erect a single storey porch & bay window to front of dwelling, (c) erect a two storey extension of front and side of dwelling, (D) erect single storey extensions to side and rear of dwelling, (E) make alterations to existing floor pland and elevations and (F) all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22485

• 20 Sept 2022Conditional

  for RETENTION of (a) change of house type as built from 4-bed to 3-bed, granted under planning reg. ref. 21/58, comprising 4 no. two storey semi-detached dwellings. PERMISSION also sought for (b) 1 no. detached two-storey dwelling and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22389

• 26 Jul 2022N/a

  for alterations to housing development under construction granted under planning reg. ref. 21/58 (5 no. 4 bed dwellings in 2 blocks) incorporating change of house type from 4 bed to 3 bed and layout to provide 4 no. semi-detached two-storey houses and 1 no. detached two storey house

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22303

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  to erect a new single storey classroom extension, provide toilet facilities for 2 no. existing classrooms, connect to existing services, and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22114

• 23 Feb 2022Conditional

  to revise site boundaries and install a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2267

• 25 Jan 2022Conditional

  to 1. Construct front porch to existing dwelling and 2. convert existing domestic garage to habitable accommodation, carry out associated alterations and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2218

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  for erection of first floor extension to side of existing dwelling, alterations to existing elevations, retention of additional floor area to granny flat (previously approved under planning permission no. 20/65) and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21767

The 25 most recent of 47 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.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Townparks.

Architectural heritage

• St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1823, enlarged 1862, moved to current location 1942. Three-bay two-stage gable front having central breakfront as stepped buttress surmounted by bellcote. Seven-bay side elevations with crenellated porch at fourth bay south elevation, recent parochial centre to north elevation. Pitched slate roof with barge stones to gable parapets, gabled pinnacles to four corners, ashlar limestone bellcote with pointed arch opening to front gable, Celtic cross with trefoil ends on stepped bracket to rear gable, cast-iron gutters and replacement downpipes. Squared and snecked sandstone walls, with ashlar limestone details, diagonal buttresses to corners, angle buttresses to side porch. Angled weatherings to sides of breakfront, trefoil sandstone surround to ventilation opening below bellcote, quatrefoil limestone opening to rear gable with drip moulding. Lancet windows to upper level of front elevation, square-headed windows below. Pointed arch windows to north and south elevations with ashlar limestone surrounds and drip mouldings. Wider windows to the second bay from the east with Decorated-style traceries comprising roundel of cusped trefoils over three-light cusped lancets. Graduated lancet composition to east gable at clerestory level under a relieving arch, late Gothic window triplet below with supermullions and cusped lights, flanked by small lancets. Leaded stained glass windows throughout. Four-centred arches to doors with hood mouldings over spandrels having carved quatrefoils. Reredos behind altar, polychrome tiles to aisle, and timber gallery with confessionals below to west.

• Humphry's Parochial Hall, market house, 1730–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former market house, built c.1740, with arcaded ground floor of ashlar sandstone. Twentieth century extension to rear. Later in use as parochial hall, now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with recent barge board and replacement rainwater goods. Recent roughcast render to upper storey with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins and plaque bearing inscription ‘HUMPHRYS PAROCHIAL HALL 1906’. Round-headed former arcade openings across full width to ground floor with plain ashlar piers and arch rings, square-profile impost, voussoirs and raised keystones, random rubble spandrels with string course above, having uPVC doors and windows. Smooth rendered surrounds, sills and uPVC windows to upper floor.

• Ballyhaise Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1820, having four-bay nave elevations with three-stage tower to west, transept to south, vestry in corresponding position to north, and chancel to east added c.1890. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-stone gable copings with plain kneelers and octagonal chimneystacks to apexes, cast-iron rainwater goods. Lower pitched roof to vestry. Castellated parapet to tower on corbel table with gabled and pinnacled corner turrets of ashlar with carved finials. Roughly coursed limestone walls, originally rendered, with raised irregular dressed ashlar quoins. Tower stages divided by string bands. Pointed arch louvred belfry openings to upper stage of tower with ashlar surround and drop mould, square-headed three-light window to middle stage with hood moulding and relieving arch of rubble sandstone. Round-headed windows in Late Gothic style with chamfered ashlar surrounds, drip moulds and twin-light ashlar traceries having roundels in heads, red brick relieving arches to original bays. Multiple-pane cast-iron windows incorporating ventilator panels. Three-light ashlar tracery of corresponding design to chancel with figurative stained-glass window. Square-headed window to vestry gable with hood moulding. Round-headed doorcase to south of tower with chamfered ashlar surround and drip mould, having double-leaf panelled doors with oculus in timber overpanel, ashlar limestone shield set above door. Exposed king-post trussed roof to interior with short chancel beyond wide chancel arch. Parlour pew at raised level in south transept. Engaged colonettes to parlour arch and window embrasures. Timber sloping sills and wainscoting throughout. Gallery to west end on grouped columns with open cusped trefoil-headed arch motif to front, matching pulpit and reader’s desk. Various wall monuments. Gothic style water font in tiled area leading to vestry door opposite transept. Square-profile rendered gate piers having ball finials, set in rendered boundary wall with steps leading to road.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Townparks, Ballyhaise7 sales

Name

Townparks

Area

801,220 m² (80.12 ha, 197.99 acres)

Civil parish

Castleterra, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Ballyhaise, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhaise electoral division: 1,152 people in 413 households; 72% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghateeduff, Drumcrow, Elteen, Knockatee, Oakwood or Drummully, Raheg

Placenames

Townparks 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.