Mylespark

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mylespark, from 246 m² to 54,300 m² (5.43 ha, 13.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Mylespark 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.

• 20 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, and wastewater treatment system, domestic garage, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 257 sqm(H), 37.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560802

• 5 Jun 2024Conditional

  of a shower room extension to an existing bedroom and revised site boundary to existing dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 6.9 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24150

• 20 Jan 2022Conditional

  for alterations and re-furbishment of existing dwelling and permission to construct rear and side extension to existing dwelling and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 185 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2235

• 6 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new slatted shed with creep area, manure pit along with all associated ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 235.18 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 235.18 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181577

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  for existing domestic garage. Gross floor space of works to be retained 49.1sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 171163

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 Mylespark.

Recorded monuments

• GA057-135 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA057-135001 Souterrain
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. Well-preserved almost circular ringfort (D c. 38m) defined by a bank. Traces of inner and outer stone revetments are visible intermittently from N to ESE. Narrow gaps at ENE and ESE appear modern. Immediately inside the bank at SW is a grassy rectangular hollow (L 11m, Wth 3m), running NE-SW and averaging 2m in depth. It is flanked by a mound of earth and a number of stones are discernible at its base: a possible souterrain. 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 Mylespark.

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_669 (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 Mylespark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Mylespark · Páirc Pholl an Mhaolraigh

Area

466,399 m² (46.64 ha, 115.25 acres)

Civil parish

Cummer, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Cummer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cummer electoral division: 1,160 people in 353 households; 88% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowreagh, Corrofin, Curry Oughter, Stripe, Tawnaghbeg

Placenames

Mylespark 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.