Marlay
Marlay is a townland in the civil parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Na Marlaí.
- Area
- 189 ha
- 467 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 9,163 m² (0.92 ha, 2.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marlay, from 1,173 m² to 238,865 m² (23.89 ha, 59.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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
No zone of a development plan covers Marlay 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jul 2022Conditional
for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works.Gross floor space of proposed works 223.40SQM
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260703
23 Jun 2022Conditional
for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works.Gross floor space of proposed works 223.40sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260647
27 Sept 2021Conditional
(i) the construction of a single storey extension to the West elevation of the existing dwelling house, (ii) construction of three dormer windows to the South elevation, (iii) construction of a domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 21.5 sqm + 60 sqm = 81.5 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211780
10 Jul 2019Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 230 sqm, Garage - 59.6 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191055
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 Marlay.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Marlay.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Marlay.
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 Marlay, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Marlay.
- 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 Marlay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Marlay · Na Marlaí
- Area
- 1,889,595 m² (188.96 ha, 466.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moylough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Mount Bellew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,972 people lived in 701 households in the Mount Bellew electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghmore East, Clooncallaga, Cloonreleagh (Bellew), Cloonreleagh West, Springlawn, Tomree
- Placenames
- Marlay 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.