Parkmore
Parkmore is a townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Moycarn, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 74 ha
- 183 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 2,911 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential (Existing)
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkmore, from 84 m² to 186,337 m² (18.63 ha, 46.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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
- R2Residential (Existing) (Existing residential)
Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Ballinasloe Local Area Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3Business and Technology (Office, business/technology park and related)
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
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Sept 2024Conditional
of: (i) extension to the rear elevation of the existing dwelling, (ii) conversion of garage to habitable space and incorporation of same into existing dwelling, (iii) revised site boundaries and all ancillary site work. Permission for boundary treatment to the rear boundary of the site. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 47.20 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461155
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 Parkmore.
Recorded monuments
- RO053-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 25.7m N-S; 16m E-W) with the straight side at E defined by an eroded earth and stone bank (Wth 2-4.4m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.2-0.5m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the interior is overlain by a relict WNW-ESE field bank towards the perimeter at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Parkmore.
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 Parkmore, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1377 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Parkmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Parkmore
- Area
- 740,121 m² (74.01 ha, 182.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycarn
- Electoral division
- Creagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,005 people lived in 370 households in the Creagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Atticorra, Creagh (Co. Galway), Glentaun, Glentaun (Co. Galway), Parkmore (Co. Galway), Tonalig
- Placenames
- Parkmore 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.