Townparks (1st Division)

735 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townparks (1st Division), from 1 m² to 49,122 m² (4.91 ha, 12.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 619 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 66 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 38 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Commercial / Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Public Utility (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Townparks (1st Division) in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 (1st Division).

Recorded monuments

• GA029-170 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in grassland, near NW limits of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as W half of a subcircular enclosure (N-S c. 30m) cut by a field boundary at N and S. No visible surface trace survives. An earthwork (GA029-171----) lay 150m to E. 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

• GA029-171 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Some 150m E of an enclosure (GA029-170----). Marked on 1st ed. on OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D 45m) but evidently much damaged by time of 3rd ed. (1932) when only a hachured arc at N is shown. No visible surface trace survives; a number of houses now occupy the site. A CBG (GA029-171001-) lay within the interior. 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

• GA029-171001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Associated with an earthwork (GA029-171----). Named but not clearly marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA029-172 Monumental structure
  Description

  In the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----): its location and the traditions surrounding it are hopelessly intertwined with the sites of a 'tumulus' (GA029-203----) and a castle (GA029-173----). Named but not clearly indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map to E of Shop St. In discussing the significance of the 'ancient name of Tuam … Tuam da ghuálainn', the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 31, 64) record that 'the spot … which tradition says, gave originally name to Tuam, is still pointed out in John Costelloe's garden … It is called the chair of Tuam, in which sat after his election, the member formerly returned by Tuam as a borough, to Parliament'. In 1980, it was reconstructed as a formal inauguration chair of cut limestone and set into a possible turret of the castle. However, it may originally have been just a symbolic term, possibly more closely associated with the 'tumulus' nearby. (Kelly 1904, 257; Ó Murchú 1907, 7) 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

• GA029-173 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----): the site appears to have occupied the crest of a rise overlooking an old fording point on the River Nanny to NW. Under the year 1161, the Annals record that Roderic O'Conor erected a 'Castrum Mirificum' at Tuam (Story 1693, 152). This may be the same as the castle of 'Tuame' mentioned in the list of 1574 (Nolan 1901b, 117), then in the possession of 'Tharchbushop [sic]'. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 33), the castle 'stood across the centre of Shop Street, within a few yards of the Mitre Hotel'. At least one 17th-C writer refers to 'walls … standing to the present day [i.e. 1666]' (see Waldron 1973), and OS Letters (ibid.) record that 'part of the wall of the bawn is used as the front wall of two publick houses'. These accounts contrast with that of Lewis (1873, Vol. 2, 648, also 646) who, having stated that only 'slight remains' survive, proceeds to outline an elaborate picture of the original. All that survives is an enigmatic D-shaped stone structure (N-S 2.1m int., E-W 1.7m), opening to N, which is embedded in S boundary wall of a supermarket carpark, 230m W of Shop St. Its interior was excavated to a depth of 2m in 1979 (information from E. Rynne). During the course of demolition work in 1987, further investigations revealed part of its curving outer wall face (D c. 3m ext.) and showed that it was at least 4.5m in height (information from P. Gosling). While its date and function are still uncertain, its resemblance to a late or post medieval wall turret is notable. It now contains a replica of the 'Chair of Tuam' (see GA029-172----). 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

• GA029-175 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Along a dry stream bed in grassland on W outskirts of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Its name and representation on OS 6-inch maps suggest that this was a holy well. However, it could simply have taken its name from the 'Presbytery' marked on the maps 70m to NE. No visible surface trace survives. A holy well (GA029-177----) lies 160m to SSW, and a named well (GA029-176----) 125m to WSW. 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

• GA029-176 Well
  Description

  On a stream close to its confluence with the River Nanny in NW suburbs of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Marked on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map but evidently gone by the time of 3rd ed. (1932). No visible surface trace survives. A possible holy well (GA029-175----) lies 125m to ENE. 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

• GA029-203 Burial mound
  Description

  In the centre of Tuam town (GA029-199----); formerly situated in a garden at the rear of the old Bank of Ireland premises on E side of Shop St., the site is now occupied by a supermarket car park. According to a strong local tradition, 'an ancient clay burial urn' was found here in the late 19th or early 20th C but was subsequently lost or disintegrated (Ó Murchú 1970, 7; Waldron 1973). The discovery was made while digging into what is variously described as a 'burial mound', 'tumulus' or 'cairn' (ibid.). According to one account (Ó Murchú 1970, 7), the 'mound' was removed at the time of the discovery. In 1979, prior to the supermarket development, Rynne investigated a low 'stony mound' in NE corner of the garden (Topgr. Files, UCG). Irregular in plan (E-W c. 5m, N-S c. 2.5m), it wad surmounted by a tree. Excavation revealed that it was 'merely a bit of 19th century garden landscaping' (ibid.). No trace survives. The 'mound' is strongly associated with 'The Chair of Tuam' (GA029-172----) and also lies on or close to the site of a castle (GA029-173----). (Waddell 1990, 96) 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

• Prospect House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having shallow flat-roofed entrance porch, and with canted bay window to east gable. Hipped slate roof with wide eaves and two rendered chimneystacks set near ends of ridge. Rendered coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with painted limestone sills. Rear and gable windows mainly replacement uPVC. Rendered entrance comprising square-headed doorway with sidelights flanked by simple Doric-style pilasters with plinths and supporting entablature with cornice and pediment. Gateway comprises dressed limestone piers with string courses and caps, with flanking square-headed wrought-iron pedestrian gate and quadrant rubble limestone walls.

• Waterslade House, house, 1630–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house, built c.1650 and remodelled c.1810, having five-bay first floor and four-bay ground floor, and lean-to full-height one-bay addition to rear. Pitched slate roof with three substantial chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with raised cemented skirting to base. Square-headed window openings, having mainly two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and with one tripartite one-over-one pane window to front, with cut limestone sills. Wide segmental-headed doorcase of c.1850 comprising square-headed doorway with sidelights having rendered stall risers and cut limestone sills, and lintel supported by scroll brackets. Timber panelled double-leaf door approached by flight of limestone steps having decorative wrought-iron railings. Entrance gateway of ashlar limestone, erected c.1810, comprising square-plan piers with pairs of paterae set in moulded panels, with fluted friezes, moulded cornices and plinths, and capstones, supporting decorative cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gates of c.1850 and flanked by pointed arch pedestrian entrances having imposts and plinths and raised keystones bearing unicorns trippant, with wrought-iron gates. Quadrant walls leading to outer piers.

• The Thatch Bar, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Mid-row three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, now in use as public house. Pitched steep thatched roof with decoratively scolloped raised ridge and rendered end chimneystacks. Rendered walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed two-over-two pane replacement timber sliding sash windows and double-leaf timber panelled door.

• Bridge, 1730–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch bridge over river, built 1735. Repointed rubble limestone walls between dragged cut-limestone octagonal piers with balustraded parapets on cut-limestone chamfered plinths having cut-limestone "saddleback" coping. Series of four round arches with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged dragged cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning River Nanny with unkempt banks to river.

• Mill (water), 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Watermill, built c.1875, straddling River Nanny and comprising five-bay single-storey structure, eastern two bays roofless, carried on three segmental arches. Pitched slate roof with pair of rendered chimneystacks on downstream elevation. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Arches have voussoirs of ashlar limestone. Square-headed window openings having roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, limestone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. North end of building connected by wall that may have been part of demolished structure to concrete pedestrian bridge with cast-iron railings. Behind mill building is weir of mass concrete with timber sluice gates.

• Bridge House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, having flat-roofed porch to front. Slate roof, pitched to south and hipped to north, with rendered replacement chimneystacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Pebbledash rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth, and render quoins. Porch has cement cornice that extends across rest of façade as string course. Second string course between upper floors. Square-headed windows with render surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed doorway to south side of porch with replacement uPVC door. Pseudo-three-centred integral carriage arch to south end of façade with double-leaf timber battened doors. Garden to front enclosed by cast-iron railings of c.1850 on rendered plinth walls with limestone copings, and multi-sided limestone piers of c.1800.

• Tuam Furniture Stores, shop/retail outlet, 1820–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, having shopfront of c.1890 to whole of ground floor. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with render chimneystack, and moulded cast-iron rainwatergoods, gutter fitted with minimilistic cornice. Painted rendered façade. Square-headed windows with moulded render surrounds with moulded cornices having pulvinated friezes, blocking courses to first floor, plinths and painted sills. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber shopfront on polished limestone plinth. Fluted pilasters, end ones supporting fluted brackets, plain fascia with raised timber lettering, having moulded cornice with dentils, and plate-glass display windows framed by Ionic colonettes and decorative spandrels. Recessed panel between door to house and shopfront. Decorative double-leaf metal gate to recessed shop entrance.

• House, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Mid-row four-bay three-storey house, built c.1750, recessed slightly from street line. Pitched slate roof with gable-end chimneystacks. Roughcast rendering to front façade. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed cut limestone block-and-start doorcase with fluted keystone supporting moulded cornice, with lead insurance badge over doorway, and replacement timber panelled door, with timber cobweb fanlight and approached by three limestone steps.

• House, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of row five-bay three-storey house, built c.1785. Pitched slate roof with tall, deep rendered chimneystacks, and block cornice with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lined and ruled rendering with parallel raised quoins. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with liomestone sill. Round-headed cut limestone block-and-start doorcase with scroll keystone, replacement fanlight, and twentieth-century timber door with four raised and fielded panels.

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 (1st Division), 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_706 (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 (1st Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Townparks (1st Division) · Páirceanna an Bhaile (an chéad roinnt)

Area

601,233 m² (60.12 ha, 148.57 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Tuam Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,924 people lived in 1,659 households in the Tuam Urban electoral division. 50% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackacre, Demesne, Garracloon, Halfstraddle, Killaloonty, Townparks (2nd Division), Townparks (3rd Division), Townparks (4th Division)

Placenames

Townparks (1st Division) 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.