Menus Park
Menus Park is a townland in the civil parish of Dunmore, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Páirc Mhéanais.
Parcel 5618204
- Area
- 2,629 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 207 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Menus Park
Planning applications on this parcel
21 Jan 2020Conditional
for 1: Revise the design of the extension to the existing dwelling house granted under planning permission reference number 19/196 from a two storey to a single store extension and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 103 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2049
14 Feb 2019Conditional
and full planning permission sought to carry out the following, 1: Retain the existing dwelling house all on revised site boundaries (previous planning permission reference 18202). 2:Retain the existing entry/exit gate on the North East side of the site. 3:Demolish the existing storage sheds to the rear of the dwelling house. 4:Construct a new extension to the existing dwelling house and carry out alterations to the front façade of the dwelling house. 5:Create a new entry/exit gate on the North West side of the site. 6:Remove the existing sewage treatment facilities and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. 7:Construct a new domestic garage/fuel store and all ancillary site works. Gross space of proposed works: 193 sqm (Extension), 59 sqm (Garage). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 140 sqm (House). Gross floor space of any demolition: 79 sqm (Shed)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19196
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 40 ha
- 99 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 18,747 m² (1.87 ha, 4.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Menus Park, from 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 53,921 m² (5.39 ha, 13.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Menus 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Jan 2020Conditional
for 1: Revise the design of the extension to the existing dwelling house granted under planning permission reference number 19/196 from a two storey to a single store extension and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 103 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2049
14 Feb 2019Conditional
and full planning permission sought to carry out the following, 1: Retain the existing dwelling house all on revised site boundaries (previous planning permission reference 18202). 2:Retain the existing entry/exit gate on the North East side of the site. 3:Demolish the existing storage sheds to the rear of the dwelling house. 4:Construct a new extension to the existing dwelling house and carry out alterations to the front façade of the dwelling house. 5:Create a new entry/exit gate on the North West side of the site. 6:Remove the existing sewage treatment facilities and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. 7:Construct a new domestic garage/fuel store and all ancillary site works. Gross space of proposed works: 193 sqm (Extension), 59 sqm (Garage). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 140 sqm (House). Gross floor space of any demolition: 79 sqm (Shed)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19196
20 Nov 2018Conditional
for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 304.8 sqm (Dwelling - 244.8 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181653
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Menus Park.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Menus Park.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Menus 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Menus 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Menus 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Menus Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Menus Park · Páirc Mhéanais
- Area
- 400,046 m² (40 ha, 98.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Dunmore South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 891 people lived in 351 households in the Dunmore South electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh West, Ballymoney South, Knockaunnagat, Menus, Mullaghmarkagh, Pollaphuca, Roy
- Placenames
- Menus 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.