Parke

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parke, from 523 m² to 96,665 m² (9.67 ha, 23.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Parke 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.

• 1 May 2026Conditional

  Construct a new agricultural entrance, access road and construct an agricultural slatted shed ( 410sq.m) together with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660163

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage , proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21511

• 16 Jul 2018N/a

  Development consisting of the construction of a new 3 bay slatted cattle shed, together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18276

• 11 Sept 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a two-storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling to include self-contained 'granny flat', on-site wastewater treatment system together with ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17346

• 29 Aug 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new vehicular entrance and access to existing dweling house. The proposed works will involve the construction of a new entrance, minor alterations to the front boundary and the construction of a driveway on the property

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17328

• 29 Mar 2017N/a

  development consisting of the construction of a two-storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17121

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 Parke.

Recorded monuments

• SL016-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W side of a low ridge in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed from ESE-S-W by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m, at S) with traces of an external stone facing. For the remainder of the circuit the bank has been replaced by a modern curvilinear field boundary whose circuit is roughly similar. A narrow, stone-lined break (Wth 1.6m) in bank at S may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL016-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a NE-SW ridge in pasture. A circular area (diam. 30.7m) enclosed by a partially eroded earthen bank (Wth 3.7m at N, 4.1m at S; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.7m at N, 1.1m at S). A break (Wth 2.5m) in bank at NE may mark original entrance. There is another break (Wth 2m) at S. The interior is not raised but appears to be roughly at the same level as exterior ground surface. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820. Rectangular plan, flat-roofed porch projects from east end of north elevation. Pitched thatched roof, raised ridge, painted concrete verge skews with corbelled kneelers, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks with mortar aprons. Painted smooth-rendered walling, large boulder stone protruding from each corner. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Set at right angles to road, concrete perimeter path, gravelled forecourt to north, painted smooth-rendered boundary wall to road. Single- and two-storey outbuilding to west, corrugated-iron roofs, painted roughcast walling, external stone staircase to upper floor.

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 Parke, 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 Parke.

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 Parke with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Parke · An Pháirc

Area

510,067 m² (51.01 ha, 126.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,765 people lived in 695 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 33% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonaderavally, Kilglass, Lackan, Quigabar

Placenames

Parke 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.