Townparks

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townparks, from 37 m² to 69,099 m² (6.91 ha, 17.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential (Existing) (Existing residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Commercial / Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space / Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Business and Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Public Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 5 Feb 2026Refused

  to demolish 1 no. existing dwelling and associated outbuildings, construct 4 no. two-storey, 3-bedroom semi-detached dwelling houses, and carryout all associated car parking, landscaping, connections to the existing road network, foul and stormwater sewers, and all other associated civil works, site works, and services to facilitate the development. This application is accompanied by an Appropriate Assessment and Natura Impact Assessment

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660164

• 4 Feb 2026Refused

  of a modular home, including associated services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660152

• 3 Jun 2025Conditional

  for temporary structure modular building, floor area of 208m2, consisting of two classrooms and all associated site works, within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560700

• 2 Aug 2024N/a

  to erect two dwelling houses together with all ancillary site works to facilitate same and to construct a new entrance to serve an existing house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 170 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460987

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  to construct 3no. single storey terraced houses with associated services; 6no. on-site parking spaces, including common access entrance/exit

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361020

• 12 Dec 2022Refused

  to construct 3 no. single storey terraced houses with associated services. 6 no. on-site parking spaces, including common access entrance/exit.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261237

• 9 Jun 2021N/a

  for the construction of 2 No. semi-detached dwellings and associated services at Townparks (Moycarn By), Ballinasloe.

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 211008

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  of extension to dwellinghouse to include two en-suite bedrooms and extended entrance hall. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 207.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21493

• 10 Jan 2020Conditional

  to erect new boundary fencing to the front and side (Southern and Eastern) boundaries of Scoil Mhuire gan Smal National School together with ancillary site works. Scoil Mhuire gan Smal is a protected structure.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2017

• 10 Oct 2017Refused

  of change of use from a shop to a shop and fast food takeaway and associated signage. Gross floor space of work to be retained 131sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 171467

• 3 Feb 2017Unconditional

  Permission for the construction of 2 No. detached energy efficient Passive House dwellinghouses and associated services at Townparks (Moycarn By), Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. Previous planning Reference no. 11/9030

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17110

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• GA088-040 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  Strategically located on E bank of the River Suck in Ballinasloe town, it commands an ancient crossing point (GA088-047----). The present ruins, dating from late medieval times, possibly stand on or close to the 'castle' built by Turlough O'Conor in 1124 (Leask 1977, 6) and the 'castle of Suicin' (Egan 1960, 32-3) built by the Anglo-Normans in 1245. Egan (ibid. 1, 83) states that the present castle was built by 'Tadhg O'Kelly, chief of Hy Many' in the 14th C. In 1572, it was held by the Earl of Clanricarde but in 1579 it was taken over by the crown (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 118). What survives is a rectangular crenellated bawn wall (GA088-040002-), in fair condition (N-S 54.5m, E-W 506.m, average H 4.5m), with a wall-walk and circular turret at SW corner. A 19th-century house (GA088-040001-) and associated outhouses have been built within the interior and, as a result, no visible surface trace of the castle survives. The remains of an arched gateway, in the centre of E wall, may mark the original bawn entrance. A keystone (GA088-04003-) dated 1597, inscribed with the name 'Anthony Braklon' and now lying to E of the house, was originally situated above the gate. The bawn is very heavily overgrown with ivy and the crenellations are only evident on W and N walls. Modern doorways have been inserted in E and W ends of N wall. The turret (D 2.45m) is three storeys high. Access is gained via a rectangular doorway on ground floor. The interior is lit by two small windows: some gun loops are also visible; there is a fireplace flue on 1st floor. The bawn is flanked on E and W sides by watercourses marked on OS 6-inch maps as 'Mill Race'. While these were undoubtedly designed to supply the 18th-19-C 'Corn Mill (in Ruins)', shown on OS 6-inch maps immediately to SE, they may be medieval in origin. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 527-30; Egan 1960, 69-70; Kerrigan 1980, 135) 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

• GA088-040001 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA088-040002 Bawn
  Description

  Strategically located on the E bank of the River Suck in Ballinasloe town, this rectangular bawn wall (N-S 54.5m, E-W 50.6m, average H 4.5m), associated with a castle (GA088-040----), commands an ancient crossing point (GA088-047----). The wall is very heavily overgrown with ivy but crenellations are evident on the S and W walls and traces of the wall-walk survive along the E and S walls. A plinth is visible at the base of the W wall. Modern doorways have been inserted in the E and W ends of the N wall. However, the remains of an arched gateway, in the centre of the E wall, may mark the original entrance. A keystone (GA088-040003-) dated 1597, inscribed with the name 'Anthony Braklon', and now lying to the E of the 19th-century house (GA088-040001-) that occupies the S sector of the interior, was originally situated above the gateway. A circular turret (D 2.45m) at the SW corner is three storeys high. Access is gained via a rectangular doorway on the ground floor. The interior is lit by two small windows: some gun loops are also visible and there is a fireplace flue on the 1st floor. As a result of the construction of the house and its associated outhouses, no visible surface trace of the castle survives. The bawn is flanked on the E and W sides by watercourses marked on the OS 6-inch maps as 'Mill Race'. While these were undoubtedly designed to supply the 18th-19-C 'Corn Mill (in Ruins)', shown on the OS 6-inch maps immediately to the SE, they may be medieval in origin. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 527-30; Egan 1960, 69-70; Kerrigan 1980, 135) 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 8 December 2016

• GA088-040003 Inscribed stone
  Description

  This stone, which lies to the east of house, formerly was set over the gateway into the bawn (GA088-040002-). It is inscribed 'Anthony Brabazon, 1597'. (Egan 1960, 70). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 14 July 2014

• GA088-041001 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA088-041002 Mill - corn
  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.

• GA088-045 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1985 to be a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 July 2014

• GA088-047 Bridge
  Description

  Spanning the River Suck at Ballinasloe: this is the easternmost of a two road bridges which carry the N6 across the meandering channels of the River Suck. From its proximity to the castle (GA088-040----) on E bank, the bridge is likely to stand on or close to the ancient fording point from which Ballinasloe partly takes its name. The earliest reference to a bridge here occurs in 1579, when it is recorded that 'a bridge had been lately made at Ballinasloe over the river of Suck at our own [the Government's] charges; so the castle there shall be continued in our hands, being the common passage into Galloway' (quoted in Egan 1960, 70). This bridge still survives albeit incorporated into the wider modern road bridge. From the investigations carried out by O'Keeffe and Simington (1991, 196-9), the original late medieval bridge appears to have been composed of two separate sections. The E section, labelled 'Ballinasloe Bridge East' on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1945), stands close to the castle. Comprised of 'at least four spans' originally (ibid., 198), it was 4.25m in width. The three surviving spans are now sandwiched between a downriver extension (Wth 4.1m), dating from 1745 (ibid.), and a modern concrete upriver addition (Wth 2.3m). The W section, now labelled 'Ballinasloe Bridge' (GA088-047001-), has also been extended downriver. It comprised four arches, all still intact, with massive (?)19th-C cutwaters on upstream side (ibid., 311). The arches on both sections are of three and four-centred design springing from wide piers. An earthwork (GA088-028----) lay c. 400m to WSW, on W bank of the river. 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 5 April 2017

Architectural heritage

• Connaught House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with two-bay three-storey return with M-profile roof to rear (north) elevation, and recent gable-fronted and flat-roofed single-bay single-storey extensions to west. Formerly used as Urban District Council offices, extension in use as tourist information office. Hipped slate roof to main block, pitched slate roofs to return and pitched and flat to extensions, all with rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground and first floor, and three-over-three pane to top floor, all with cut-stone sills. Entrance bay has round-headed window to top floor and Serlian window to first floor. Enlarged tripartite timber sliding sash window to rear elevation, having six-pane top sash, over French doors. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by one-over-one pane sidelights. Recent pedestrian gate to front set to rendered plinth wall with cut-stone coping, and recent railings.

• The Railings, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860. Built as one of pair with house to east. Pitched slate roof with red brick eaves course and with paired red brick chimneystacks to mid-roof. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and cut-stone sills, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround with timber panelled door with stained-glass overlight. Decorative cast-iron pedestrian gate, with similar railings on rendered plinth.

• Eastend House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace two-bay two-storey house, built c.1860. Built as one of pair with house to west. Pitched slate roof with red brick eaves course and red brick chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls to front elevation, roughcast rendered gable wall, lined-and-ruled rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and cut-stone sills, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround, timber panelled door and leaded overlight. Cast-iron pedestrian gate, with similar railings on rendered plinth. Gable has through-stones that would have facilitated continuation of terrace.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with integral carriage arch to west end. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks towards mid-roof, and cut-stone eaves course. Snecked dressed stone walls to front (south) elevation, with recent plaque, rubble walling to west gable, with render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with render surround and timber panelled door with fanlight. Elliptical carriage arch with timber battened double-leaf door having cut-stone voussoirs.

• Bridge House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay three-storey house, built c.1860, with integral carriage arch to west end. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone chimneystacks and eaves course. Snecked cut limestone walls to front (south) elevation, and rendered east gable. Square-headed window openings with tooled voussoirs, cut-stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with carved limestone doorcase with panelled pilasters on moulded plinths, with moulded lintel, panelled archivolt with decorative keystone, and having timber panelled door with spoked decorative hinges and spoked timber fanlight. Segmental carriage arch has timber battened double-leaf door with smaller pedestrian inset door, and tooled voussoirs.

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Asylum Master's House, built c.1900, of limestone, with recessed porch to front, two-bay side elevations and having slightly lower paired single-bay two-storey returns to middle of rear (south-west) elevation, and six-bay single-storey block running north-west to south-east to rear of these, with lower single-bay single-storey block to north-east end. Now in use as outpatients' clinic. Hipped slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods and cut-stone chimneystacks with cornices. Dressed walls with moulded eaves course. Square-headed window openings with chamfered lintels and sloping sills, with replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed window opening with twelve-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash window to rear elevation. All windows having cut-limestone surrounds and sills. Segmental-arched opening to front entrance, with cut-stone voussoirs and surround, having scroll keystone, square-headed door opening to interior with timber panelled door, overlight and sidelights. Entrance to south-east east elevation of single-storey block comprising square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, set into projecting carved stone surround having square-plan pilasters with capitals and panelled plinths supporting entablature with moulded cornice and flanked by round-headed sidelights with cut-stone surrounds and moulded sill course continuing to form cornice to panelled plinths of doorway pilasters, aprons of windows having decorative swag details. Located to rear of Saint Brigid’s Mental Hospital.

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached thirty-one bay two-storey U-plan hospital, built c.1900. Front elevation has three-bay breakfront, flanked by five-bay parts having symmetrically placed entrances located two bays from breakfront, single-bay projections futher on and fronted by canted centrepieces, two fruther bays and then forward-projecting three-bay wings similarly fronted by canted centrepieces. Futher five bays beyond these projections complete front elevation which then returns to canted end elevations having multiple-bay two-storey blocks at right angles to rear, with narrow links to further three-bay single-storey blocks to rear again. Further two-storey blocks at right angles at intervals to rear of main block corresponding to front projections. Hipped slate roofs having cast-iron rainwater goods and dressed stone chimneystacks. Cut-stone eaves course, and with cut and carved stone cornice to breakfront with ball finials. Rock-faced rusticated walls having cut-stone plinth course, and moulded string course below first floor sill level. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone surrounds throughout. Front elevation has triple-light mullion and transom windows to middle of breakfront and double-light to flanking bays and to one further flanking bay, ground loor openings having blank overlight panels, all windows having moulded cornices, continuous over first floor of breakfront and matching with breakfront cornice, and mainly having steel-framed windows. Replacement uPVC windows to other openings. Canted projections to front elevation have double windows to first floor and triple windows to ground floor. Some double and triple windows elsewhere to building. Matching round-headed entrance doorways to front elevation, each set in projecting surround comprising rectangular-plan pilasters having panelled plinths and moulded capitals, moulded archivolt with scroll keystone, moulded cornice and parapet, inset door opening with roll moulded surround, timber panelled door with timber spoked fanlights, and cut-stone step. Front elevation facing south onto mature landscaped grounds.

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1900–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay single-storey H-plan hospital building, built c.1920, having two-bay recess to front (west) elevation flanked by full-height flat-roofed porches, in turn flanked by gabled two-bay blocks, with single-bay single-storey extension with pitched roof to north elevation, and three-bay single-storey pitched-roofed extension projecting at an angle to rear (east) elevation. North porch is canted. Pitched slate roofs and rendered chimneystacks, with render cornice and parapet copings to porches. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with plinth course. Square-headed window openings, mainly having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and some replacement timber windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber doors with overlights to porches. Detached T-plan outbuilding to rear, with west-to-east range being multiple-bay single-storey, and north-to-south crossing range being multiple-bay two-storey, having pitched slate roofs to some sections, recent corrugated roof to eastern range, dressed stone walls with square-headed window and door openings, double-height round carriage arch to south gable. Located to rear of hospital buildings.

• Ballinasloe Bridge (East), bridge, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch limestone bridge, built 1887, carrying road over River Suck. Segmental arches with rusticated voussoirs, round-arched flood relief tunnels with rusticated voussoirs. V-cutwaters to south elevation. Rock-faced rusticated walls with cut-stone string course, rock-faced rusticated parapet walls with cut-stone piers and tooled stone copings with chamfered edges. Recent cast-iron lamps with maker's mark. Machinery on north elevation to operate sluices.

• Ivy Lodge, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780, with two-bay two-storey return to north (rear) elevation, and with multiple-bay two-storey lower addition to north gable of return. Pitched slate roofs and rendered and brick chimneystacks with ceramic pots. Cut-stone eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and cut-stone sills. Round-headed painted carved limestone doorcase comprising fluted pilasters with moulded plinths and capitals, carved lintel with fluting and medallions, archivolt with fluted keystone, timber fanlight and having replacement timber door. Garden to front of house having wrought-ion pedestrian gate to moulded concrete piers set into similar boundary wall. Remains of castle to west of site, with ivy-covered bawn walls of c.1600, with remains of corner tower and moat.

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, church/chapel, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted east-facing Roman Catholic chapel, built c.1870, having seven-bay side elevations, lower half-hexagon chancel to west and entrance porch to east. Sacristy to west end of north elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof to nave, hipped slate to projections, with cut-stone copings, moulded stone eaves cornice, and with carved stone cross finial to east gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut limestone walls having tooled recesses to front and side elevations separated by cut-stone pilasters, having dentillated cornice, and cut-stone plinth course. Round-headed lancet window openings with chamfered surrounds and stained and leaded glass. Recessed round-headed main doorway colonettes on plinths, impost course, archivolt, and timber battened double-leaf door and cut-stone steps. Located west of Saint Brigid’s Hospital on open site.

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached I-plan two-storey hospital building, built c.1880, comprising eight-bay north and south blocks having two-bay entrance breakfronts, with central connecting spine, having projecting two-bay two-storey projecting block to west elevation with five-bay two-storey and two-bay two-storey projecting blocks to east elevation. Connected to main block by multiple-bay single-storey corridor block with pitched roof. Currently disused. Hipped slate roofs, having cast-iron rainwater goods and cut-stone eaves course. Lined-and-ruled walls having cut-stone plinths and tooled quoins. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber windows, and cut-stone sills. Square-headed door openings to north and south blocks with timber battened doors having overlights.

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey X-plan mental hospital, dated 1833, facing south, having central canted entrance block comprising five bays with entrance breakfront rising into clock tower. This is flanked by four-bay wings, in turn flanked by recessed thirteen-bay wings. East elevation comprises six-bay side of entrance block, flanked by slightly lower six-bay blocks, in turn by canted link with two-bay sides to five-bay block, then blank-faced projections with two-bay sides, and then two further bays to complete elevation. End elevations of points of 'X' have five-bay sides having three-bay projection to middle. Recent multiple-bay two-storey extension to rear elevation of 'X'. Slate roofs, hipped to entrance and terminating blocks, with cut-stone chimneystacks and cornice. Cut-stone clock tower rises above roof parapet, with plinth comprising wide pilasters flanking four-light windows with round heads, with moulded cornice, atop which stands octagonal-plan lantern having paired columns to corner faces flanking cut-stone centrepieces having round-headed timber louvered openings with imposts, cardinal faces having clocks, all in turn surmounted by entablature and copper ogee dome with wrought-iron weather vane. Limestone ashlar walls with cut-stone string course between floors of entrance block. Rubble stone walls to projecting blocks to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber windows, and cut-stone sills and voussoirs. Carved limestone Venetian-style doorcase to entrance block comprising round-headed door opening with flanking square-headed sidelights, all having panelled pilasters with plinths and consoles surmounted by moulded cornice, with half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door with cobweb fanlight, four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and cut-stone stall risers to sidelights. Entrance approached by cut-stone steps flanked by ashlar parapet walls with cut-stone cappings. Building fronted by elaborate gateway.

• Bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch limestone bridge, built c.1780, over eastmost largely dry branch of River Suck, having rubble limestone walls and parapets with rubble coping stones. Dressed limestone voussoirs to segmental arches. Drainage holes towards each end of south elevation. Recent water pipe to front of south elevation. Bridge stands adjacent to medieval Ballinasloe Castle.

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, gate lodge, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Saint Brigid's Hospital, erected 1833, and comprising ashlar limestone screen wall flanked by slightly recessed roughcast rendered walling giving way to plinth walls with wrought-iron railings, cut-stone details including plinths, copings and quoins. Screen comprising central Triumphal-arch-style gateway having round vehicular arch entrance to slightly projecting centrepiece with pilasters, plinths, moulded imposts and archivolt with keystone, moulded cornice and cut-stone parapet. Archway flanked by slightly recessed walling having similar plinth, cornice and parapet, with square-headed pedestrian entrances, flanked in turn by slightly recessed walling having similar detailing and round-headed niches. Later walling masks south gables of paired three-bay single-storey gate lodges that face each other, each having hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, cut-stone eaves course, tooled ashlar walls with plinth course, segmental-arched window openings with tooled stone voussoirs and cut-stone sills, with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows and segmental-arched door opening having tooled stone voussoirs and double-leaf timber panelled door with paned overlight. Decorative cast-iron double-leaf gate to vehicular entrance, with ornate fan, and matching cast-iron pedestrian gates.

• Árus Banaltran, nurses' home, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached fifteen-bay three-storey E-plan former nurses' home, built c.1930, with three-bay central entrance breakfront, five-bay side elevations, three-bay single-storey blocks projecting from each end of front elevation, and canted projection to middle of rear elevation. Now disused. Flat roof with parapet over moulded cornice, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative carved panels to parapet of rear middle projection. Wetdashed walls with moulded and smooth rendered impost course continuing to all elevations at ground floor level, and plinth course. Round-headed window openings to ground floor, set into recessed round-headed surrounds, with cut-stone sills and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings elsewhere, tripartite to breakfront, with cut-stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows elsewhere. Twelve-over-sixteen pane window to second floor of canted projection. Square-headed window openings with steel casement windows and cut-stone sills to single-storey blocks. Round-headed carved limestone front entrance doorcase having keystone with human mask, rope moulding to surround of opening, plinths, and double-leaf timber panelled door with decorative fanlight. Site entrance comprising wrought-iron double-leaf gate with rendered piers, flanked by quadrant plinth walls with wrought-iron railings, in turn flanked by cut limestone piers. Wetdashed boundary walls with intermittent cut limestone piers. Located opposite Saint Brigid's Hospital on Church Street.

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 Townparks, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1378 (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 Townparks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Townparks · Páirceanna an Bhaile

Area

835,594 m² (83.56 ha, 206.48 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycarn

Electoral division

Ballinasloe Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,361 people lived in 2,616 households in the Ballinasloe Urban electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Back, Creagh, Dunlo, Kilgarve, Pollboy, Portnick, Townparks

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.