Goleenmarsh

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goleenmarsh, from 738 m² to 82,090 m² (8.21 ha, 20.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Goleenmarsh 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.

• 18 Mar 2026Split decision

  Retention Planning Permission for the following, ground floor extension to existing detached domestic loft garage for detached domestic shed including car port, for change of use of detached domestic garage to ancillary accommodation and for Planning Permission for use of the detached and extended domestic garage for short term letting and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0667

• 10 Nov 2020Conditional

  Permission for retention of minor elevational changes to dwelling as granted under Planning Reg. No. 94/1802 and for permission to retain a single storey domestic garage

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/637

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  To demolish 2 no. single storey extensions to dwelling and for alterations and extensions to dwelling including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/447

• 6 Dec 2013Conditional

  Change of plan to construct a dwellinghouse, detached garage, septic tank with percolation area and associated site works as originally granted under Planning Permission reference Number 11/170

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/679

• 23 Mar 2011Conditional permission

  Construct a dwellinghouse, detached garage, septic tank with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/170

• 8 May 1998Refused

  Reconstruction of ruined dwellinghouse & installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 98/1897

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 Goleenmarsh.

Recorded monuments

• CO141-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope, overlooking River Ilen, Ard na Greine House nearby to SE. Indicated as subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on OS 6-inch map (1842). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Goleenmarsh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Goleenmarsh · Góilín na Curchaise

Area

302,361 m² (30.24 ha, 74.72 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadown, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Aghadown South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghadown South electoral division: 623 people in 252 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardraly, Bigmarsh, Glebe, Glebemarsh, Knocknaraha, Loughmarsh

Placenames

Goleenmarsh 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.