Marshalstown

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marshalstown, from 128 m² to 328,027 m² (32.8 ha, 81.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Marshalstown 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.

• 31 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for the construction of a new single storey domestic garage and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0198

• 7 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling & construct a detached domestic garage and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6408

• 21 Sept 2023Conditional

  Planning permission for 1) Construction of a single storey extension to the side/rear of the existing dwelling. 2)Relocation of part of the percolation area, to facilitate the proposed extension. 3) Installation of 5 no. roof windows to the front of the existing dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5908

• 31 Aug 2023Conditional

  1) permission to retain alterations to bay window roof for the bungalow granted permission previously on n/2405/84 and 2) permission to retain existing block built garage/shed used for domestic purposes, and 3) permission to retain the existing steel shed used for domestic purposes, and all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/5769

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention for kitchen & Bathroom extension to side of dwelling house and also permission for retention for a detached shed, including all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6761

• 23 Sept 2021Conditional

  To construct a milking parlour with holding yard and slatted tanks, effluent tank, feed bin and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6611

• 9 Jul 2018Conditional

  Construction of a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage and carrying out all associated site works, including the installation of a treatment unit and percolation area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5785

• 2 Aug 2017Conditional

  Retention of domestic garage/store

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/6018

• 2 Aug 2017Conditional

  To construct a single storey dwelling, garage, sewage treatment unit with percolation area, entrance & ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6012

• 27 Jul 2017Conditional

  The removal of fire damage dwelling remains and construction of a replacement storey and a half type dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5943

• 29 Jun 2017Incompleted application

  The removal of fire damaged dwelling remains and the construction of a replacement storey and a half type dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5647

• 6 Mar 2015Conditional

  Dwelling and detached domestic garage, installation of septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4434

• 3 Jul 2013Conditional

  Construction of dwelling and attached domestic garage to the side incorporating the partially completed dwelling granted under Planning Ref. No. 02/736, and installation of treatment unit and polishing filter

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5268

• 25 Aug 2011Unconditional

  Completion of a single storey dwelling and garage, sewage treatment unit and entrance permitted under Planning Reg. no. 06/12679

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/5830

• 25 Mar 2010Refused

  One-and-a-half storey dweling with garage, septic tank & associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4668

• 21 Dec 2006Conditional

  Retention of extensions to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13725

• 24 Nov 2006Conditional

  Single storey dwelling and garage

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/12679

• 2 Aug 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9442

• 11 Jul 2006Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8765

• 31 Jan 2006Conditional

  2 no. dwellinghouses with garages

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/4431

• 14 Dec 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9275

• 14 Dec 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9252

• 30 Mar 2005Conditional

  2 no. dwellinghouses and garages

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1980

• 10 Nov 2004Conditional

  Retention of alterations and extensions to dwellinghouse and vehicular entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8306

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 Marshalstown.

Recorded monuments

• CO019-003 Country house
  Description

  Ruined 2-storey house, over basement, of early 19th-century appearance. Entrance front (E) of 3 bays; round-headed door to right; brick-dressed window opes. View front (S) of 3 bays. Linear 1-storey farm buildings to N believed locally to be on site of Marshalstown Castle (14314). House demolished in early 1990s after part of wall collapsed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-004001 Graveyard
  Description

  On E side of road. Roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 35m NNW-SSE; c. 65m WSW-ENE), enclosed by stone wall; entrance gate with stone piers to W. Ruins of C of I parish church of Marshalstown (14720) in NE corner; ruin of earlier parish church (14444) just S of centre. In occasional use; burials concentrated within and to S of earlier church; headstones noted of 19th- and 20th-century date though Buckley (1910-12) lists one of 1728; much-ruined table tomb within earlier church; many low uninscribed grave markers. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-004002 Church
  Description

  South-of-centre in graveyard (14607), c. 5.5m S of C of I church (14720). Fragmentary remains of rectangular church (c. 18.9m E-W; int. c. 6.7m N-S); described by Power (1932, 83) as 42ft. x 27ft. East wall entirely removed, position marked by limestone quoins of NE corner (H 1.1m) and slight slope down to E; line of W wall also marked only by similar drop. South wall reduced to line of rubble. Low remains (max. H 1.1m) of E end of N wall (L 7.8m), visible elsewhere as slight drop. In 1984 (CAS), N and S walls survived to c. 1m H, heavily overgrown; opposing doorways, towards W end of N and S walls, had similar limestone surround with pointed arch, chamfered externally; S doorway had straight-set embrasure under segmental arch. Church subjected to removal of overgrowth in early 1990s, when S doorway and surrounding walling rebuilt using material from N doorway, and buttressed externally. North door now survives only in its basal courses. Cut-limestone fragment close to church, re-used as gravemarker, has chamfered moulding, probably from window jamb. North and S walls described by Power (ibid.) as standing to 'about 8 feet' with 'a widely splaying window of apparently native Irish character' in S wall. Remains of parish church of Marshalstown, probably late medieval in date. Reported 'in repair' in 1615, abandoned by 1694 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 330, 68). A church here listed in Papal Taxation of 1291 (ibid.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-004003 Church
  Description

  In N side of graveyard (14607). Former C of I parish church of Marshalstown. Remains of medieval church (14444) immediately to S. Roofless rectangular nave (WSW-ENE), of roughly coursed sandstone construction with cut stone detail. Three pointed windows with hood mouldings in S wall, central window larger than flankers; two in N wall. Vestry at E end of N wall. Tall two storey tower on W gable with corner buttresses, flat headed door ope in S wall with hood moulding. Built in 1830 to accommodate 150 people (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 347). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Field known locally as lios field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-006 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, commanding extensive view all round. Depicted on 1935 OS 6-inch map as hachured arcs to E and W, joined by broken straight lines (c. 30m E-W; c. 20m N-S). Levelled; barely perceptible circular cropmark visible in field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-139 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Local tradition (Healy 1988, 421) locates castle on site now occupied by farm buildings behind Marshalstown House (14916). House now demolished; no evidence of castle structure in farm buildings. A 1588 grant of lands in the area to Arthur Hyde included 'the castle and lands of Ballymariscall alias Marshallstowne' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 89). Marshalstown was on borderland between Condons and White Knights (Nicholls 1993, 187). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO019-156 House - vernacular house
  Description

  On E side of road. Front (S) of 4 bays; off-centre door to E with projecting surround. Hipped roof with thatch; off-centre chimney to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, facing west, being two-pile to northern two bays, south bay projecting slightly to front and rear elevations to give two-bay south elevation. Two-bay single-storey extension to north. Slate roof, pithced to north end and hipped to south, with rendered chimneystacks and clay ridge tiles. Pitched slate roof to extension with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, carved timber bargeboards, and having red brick chimneystacks in facer bond. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered plinth course having decorative cast-iron vents. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills, with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door and single-pane overlight, all set into round-headed recess. Square-headed door opening to extension having timber battened door with rectangular overlight. Outbuilding to north, single-storey and part lofted, having pitched artificial slate roof, coursed tooled limestone rubble walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings, door openings having tooled voussoirs and timber battened double and single-leaf doors. Rendered boundary walls terminating in square-plan piers with pointed caps and wrought-iron double and single-leaf gates.

• Marshalstown Church, church/chapel, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1810, comprising three-bay nave, square-plan two-stage tower to west, and single-bay vestry to north-west. Now in ruins. Roofless, having some cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed limestone rubble walls with tooled limestone plinth course having cast-iron vents, and cut limestone quoins and chamfered cut limestone block-and-start surrounds to openings. Tower has string course between stages, diagonal buttresses to corners, and moulded limestone cornice. Pointed arch window openings to nave, middle window being taller than others, all with hood-mouldings. Tudor-arch window openings to vestry. Double lancet window openings to upper stage of tower, with narrower double lancet openings above with tooled hood-mouldings and timber louvers. Pointed arch window openings to bottom stage having tooled hood-mouldings. Square-headed door opening to south elevation of tower having label-moulding and approached by limestone step. Square-headed door opening to vestry. All openings recently blocked. Graveyard to site having some ornate grave markers and remains of east end of medieval church with coursed limestone rubble walls and pointed segmental arch door opening. Coursed limestone boundary walls terminating in square-plan piers with pointed caps having wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

• Marshalstown Bridge, bridge, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch road limestone bridge over Funshion River, built c. 1780. Coursed rubble stone walls with curved rendered copings. Round arches with tooled limestone voussoirs, having stepped V-cutwaters to upstream elevation. Angled stone copings to approaching road walls having rectangular stone projections at regular intervals. Plaque to east wall. Steps down to river at north-east.

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 Marshalstown, 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 Marshalstown.

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 Marshalstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Marshalstown · Baile an Mharascalaigh

Area

1,949,712 m² (194.97 ha, 481.78 acres)

Civil parish

Marshalstown, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Marshalstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

412 people lived in 144 households in the Marshalstown electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacross, Ballyenahan North, Ballyshurdane, Cloghleafin, Curraghgorm, Derrynanool, Glennahulla, Glennahulla, Knockanevin

Placenames

Marshalstown 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.