Parkaloughan

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkaloughan, from 435 m² to 81,571 m² (8.16 ha, 20.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Parkaloughan 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.

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  for change of house plan previously permitted under planning ref; 21/2465

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561933

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 170 sqm, Garage: 39.8 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212465

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  for previously permitted dwelling house, garage, ancillary domestic sheds and septic tank system. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 342.6 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181855

• 9 Nov 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 261.7sqm, Garage 30sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171605

• 18 Aug 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage and sewage treatment system and all associated site development works (gross floor space 287sqm; house 232sqm, garage 55sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171252

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 Parkaloughan.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-217 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). A roughly N-S running field boundary cut across it from NW to SW. No visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA104-217----) occupies the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 July 2019

• GA104-217001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA1904-217----). This rectangular children's burial ground (20m N-S; 9.9m E-W) is defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall (H 0.2-0.3m; Wth 0.9-1m). Within it numerous small set stones are visible; no consistent alignment or pattern is evident. (McCaffrey 1952, 244, no. 99) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 July 2019

• GA104-218 Well
  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.

• GA104-219 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. A poorly preserved oval cashel (c. 80m N-S; c. 55m E-W) defined by a bank of earth and stone which is overlain by field walls from S to NW, from NNW to NE and from E to S. (McCaffrey 1952, 244, no. 115) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Parkaloughan, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Parkaloughan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Parkaloughan · Páirc an Locháin

Area

293,233 m² (29.32 ha, 72.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolgan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Rahasane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

363 people lived in 121 households in the Rahasane electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fawnarevagh, Gortroe, Lavallyconor, Liskevin, Parkbaun

Placenames

Parkaloughan 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.