Marblehill

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marblehill, from 113 m² to 72,856 m² (7.29 ha, 18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Marblehill 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOUSE (244.4M2 INCLUDING BALCONY), DOMESTIC OFFICE AND HOME GYM (49.1M2), WITH A CURTILAGE, GRAVELLED AREA (152.6M2). THE TIMBER BUILDINGS ARE TO BE BUILT USING CIRCULAR HOLLOW SECTION GALVANISED COLUMNS (CHS) ON SEPARATE PAD FOUNDATIONS: 28 PADS WILL MEASURE 1M2 AND 2 PADS WILL BE 4M2, (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SECONDARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A BIOLOGICAL AERATED FILTER TREATMENT PLANT TOGETHER WITH A TERTIARY SAND POLISHING FILTER BED OF 13.5 M2 AND (3) A STORMWATER AND DRAINAGE MANAGEMENT LAYOUT PLAN INCLUDE AN OIL FILTER AND PREVENTION OF WATER ENTERING THE POLISHING FILTER BED BEFORE IT IS DISCHARGED TO THE GROUND. MAINS WATER IS AVAILABLE ON SITE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562040

• 29 Oct 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF A PRE-EXISTING SERVICE BUILDING AND ERECTION OF A NEW SERVICE BUILDING INCLUDING EV CHARGING STATIONS ALONG WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561881

• 31 Jan 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOUSE (244.4M2 INCLUDING BALCONY), WITH A SEPARATE DOMESTIC OFFICE AND REFLEXOLOGY STUDIO (49.1M2), WITH A GRAVELLED CURTILAGE (152.6M2), (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SECONDARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A BIOLOGICAL AERATED FILTER TREATMENT PLANT TOGETHER WITH A TERTIARY SAND POLISHING FILTER BED OF 13.5 M2 AND (3) A STORMWATER AND DRAINAGE MANAGEMENT LAYOUT PLAN TO INCLUDE AN OIL FILTER AND PREVENT WATER TO ENTER THE POLISHING FILTER BED BEFORE IT IS DISCHARGED TO THE GROUND WITH MAINS WATER AVAILABLE ON SITE. THE TIMBER BUILDINGS ARE TO BE BUILT USING CIRCULAR HOLLOW SECTION GALVANISED COLUMNS (CHS) ON SEPARATE PAD FOUNDATIONS: 28 PADS WILL MEASURE 1M2 AND 2 PADS WILL BE 4M2. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560116

• 14 Jun 2024Refused

  (1) EXTENSION TO EXISTING CARAVAN PARK TO PROVIDE 22NO. ADDITIONAL CARAVAN PITCHES AND OPEN SPACE KICK-A-BOUT AREA, (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, WASTEWATER PUMP AND RAISED TERTIARY INFILTRATION AREA, (3) PROPOSED EXTENSION OF EXISTING WATER SUPPLY NETWORK AND STORMWATER NETWORK WITH BYPASS SEPARATOR TRAP PRIOR TO DISCHARGE TO EXISTING WATER COURSE, AND (4) REMOVAL OF 2NO. CARAVAN PITCHES TO ACCOMMODATE NEW ACCESS ROAD THROUGH THE EXISTING CARAVAN PARK INCLUDING PEDESTRIAN FOOTPATH TO CONNECT TO EXISTING PLAY AREA. AN EIAR ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460901

• 20 Jun 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION CONSISTING OF KITCHEN/ORANGERY TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350868

• 21 Sept 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251586

• 27 May 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250923

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Sheephaven SAC 001190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Marblehill.

Architectural heritage

• Marble Hill, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house (on L-shaped plan), built c. 1810 or 1836, having two-storey return to the rear (west) at the south-west corner, single-storey extension to the rear at the north-west corner, added c. 1895, and with central projecting pedimented single-bay single-storey cut stone Ionic entrance porch to the front elevation. Possibly later in use as a Church of Ireland rectory c. 1880-1894. Now in use as a house and rental holiday home. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves supported on paired console brackets, smooth rendered or painted ashlar eaves course with stringcourse to base, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods with gargoyle or grotesque motifs to gutters, and with a central pair of stepped smooth rendered chimneystacks with ashlar stringcourses, ashlar coping, and terracotta pots. Hipped natural slate roof to single-storey extension (kitchen extension?) having central perforated cement rendered chimneystack with hipped slate roofed coping over. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting canted ashlar plinth course, and with raised ashlar parallel\block quoins to corners. Channelled ashlar walls to side elevations of porch. Roughcast rendered walls to single-storey extension to rear. Square-headed window openings having smooth rendered reveals, cut stone sills, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Window openings to front elevation at ground floor level set in round-headed recesses; tripartite\Wyatt window over porch to central bay at first floor level having stone sill, and timber sliding sash windows. Recessed square-headed doorway to porch having paired timber glazed doors, and with cut stone architraved surround and flanking sections of ashlar walling; pedimented distyle entrance porch having two Ionic columns, ashlar pilasters to either side having recessed rectangular panels and with laurel wreath garlands over, and surmounted by ashlar pediment. Flight of cut stone steps to entrance. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds overlooking Marble Hill Strand and Sheephaven Bay to the east. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Dunfanaghy. Complex of two-storey outbuildings arranged around courtyard to the south. Gate lodge (see 40901617) and gateway (see 40901618) to the south east. Gateway to the rear of site comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping and wrought-iron lanterns over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked by sections of roughcast rendered boundary wall having integral pedestrian entrance to one side with wrought-iron gate. Garden to front of house having terraces and cut stone steps. Remains of walled garden (on sub rectangular-plan) to the north (not investigated).

• Marble Hill, outbuilding, coach house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of former outbuildings and coach house associated with Marble Hill (see 40901602), built c. 1760, comprising central advanced gable-fronted double-height two-bay two-storey coach house flanked to either side (east and west) by three-bay two-storey outbuildings. Now altered and converted into accommodation, c. 2000. Hipped natural slate roof having overhanging eaves with projecting cut stone eaves course, two central smooth rendered chimneystacks, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut stone coping over advanced gable-fronted central bays. Coursed and squared rubble sandstone walls over projecting chamfered cut stone plinth course, and with raised smooth rendered or ashlar parallel\block quoins to the corners. Ashlar surrounds to carriage-arches to advanced central bays below arch springing points. Square-headed window openings to flanking wings at ground floor level and to central bay at first floor level having cement rendered block-and-start surrounds, stone sills, and replacement fittings; roundel openings to the outer bays at first floor level having smooth rendered surrounds and replacement fittings. Round-headed doorways to the centre of flanking wings having smooth rendered block-and-start surrounds, overlight, and with replacement glazed double-doors. Two double-height round-headed carriage-arches to advanced central block having ashlar surrounds to bases, cement rendered surrounds to heads, battened timber double-doors with wrought-iron hinges, and with multi-paned timber overlights; round clock face over carriage-arches to gable apex having stepped cement rendered surround. Three-storey elevation to rear (south) having series of round-headed carriage-arches at ground floor\basement level having battened timber doors, multi-paned overlights, and cement rendered surrounds, square-headed doorways over having smooth rendered surrounds and replacement double-doors; timber gantry with timber security rails to first floor openings. Square- and round-headed window openings at second floor level having smooth rendered surrounds and replacement fittings. Sections of flagstone paving to the front (north); yard to the front having gravel covering, and with roughcast rendered rubble stone boundary walls. Gateway to the west comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates. Yard to the rear (south) having roughcast rendered rubble stone boundary walls. Gateway to the south having a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Detached two-storey outbuilding to the north (adjacent to rear of Marble Hill House) having pitched natural slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Detached outbuilding to the east of main outbuilding (not viewed) having hipped roof. Located in the rural countryside to the east\south-east of Dunfanaghy, and adjacent to the south of Marble Hill and to the west of Marble Hill Strand.

• Marble Hill, gate lodge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge associated with Marble Hill (see 40901602), built c. 1895, having single-bay single-storey canopy entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (south), bowed window to the west elevation, and with single-storey extension to the rear (north). Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural Roshine schist slate roof with sprocketed eaves with exposed rafter ends, central rendered chimneystack with clay pots, and with replacement rainwater goods. Hipped natural Roshine schist slate roof to canopy porch with sprocketed eaves, and exposed rafter ends; canopy porch supported on timber posts set on roughcast rendered wall to front (south) and by roughcast rendered wall to the east elevation. Bowed natural Roshine schist slate roof over bowed window to the west. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with paired six-pane timber casement windows and painted stone sills. Recessed square-headed doorway to centre of front elevation (behind porch) having battened timber door with overlight. Attendant gateway (see 40901618) adjacent to the west. Located in the rural countryside to the east\south-east of Dunfanaghy and to the south-east of Marble Hill. Marble Hill Strand adjacent to the east.

• Marble Hill, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Main gateway serving Marble Hill (see 40901602), erected c. 1810 or c. 1834 and probably re-erected c. 1895, comprising a pair of hammered ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped cut stone coping over surmounted by cut stone pineapple finials over, and with a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates. Attendant gate lodge (see 40901617) adjacent to the east. Gateway flanked to either side (east and west) by quadrant sections of roughcast rendered rubble stone boundary walling having cut stone coping over and terminated by piers (on square-plan). Located in the rural countryside to the east\south-east of Dunfanaghy and to the south-east of Marble Hill at start of approach avenue to house. Marble Hill Strand adjacent to the 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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Marblehill.

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 Marblehill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Marblehill · Cnoc an Mharmair

Area

482,798 m² (48.28 ha, 119.3 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Ards, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ards electoral division: 805 people in 270 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonmass, Dundrudian, Faugher, Parkmore

Placenames

Marblehill 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.