# Marley, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Na Marlaí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 382,317 m² (38.23 ha, 94.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,558 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tuam, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/tuam.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Killeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 734 people lived in 245 households in the Killeen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21762 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63254 - Centre: latitude 53.543928, longitude -8.830249 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marley, from 25 m² to 76,057 m² (7.61 ha, 18.79 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1992795: 76,057 m² (7.61 ha, 18.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992795.md - Parcel 1992788: 49,755 m² (4.98 ha, 12.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992788.md - Parcel 1992794: 47,463 m² (4.75 ha, 11.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992794.md - Parcel 1992790: 36,410 m² (3.64 ha, 9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992790.md - Parcel 1992792: 30,216 m² (3.02 ha, 7.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992792.md - Parcel 1992791: 26,548 m² (2.65 ha, 6.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992791.md - Parcel 1958134: 23,504 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958134.md - Parcel 1992799: 19,600 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992799.md - Parcel 1958132: 19,328 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958132.md - Parcel 1958139: 9,303 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958139.md - Parcel 4840226: 2,876 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4840226.md - Parcel 1992798: 2,588 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992798.md - Parcel 4628421: 2,580 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4628421.md - Parcel 5985644: 2,558 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5985644.md - Parcel 4668366: 2,505 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4668366.md - Parcel 1958140: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958140.md - Parcel 1958135: 1,992 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958135.md - Parcel 1992797: 1,946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992797.md - Parcel 1992793: 1,797 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992793.md - Parcel 1958137: 1,523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958137.md - Parcel 1992796: 1,376 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992796.md - Parcel 1958136: 1,375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958136.md - Parcel 1958138: 1,340 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958138.md - Parcel 1992789: 1,225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1992789.md - Parcel 1958133: 897 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1958133.md - Parcel 2420035: 280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2420035.md - Parcel 4628380: 25 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4628380.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Marley in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 25 Nov 2025, Galway County Council 2561729: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561729/0 - 10 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 2561481: Conditional. Permission. for an agricultural storage shed, new entrance and roadway into lands and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561481/0 - 10 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 2561482: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the renovation and extension of existing derelict dwelling, renovation of existing shed, new sewage treatment system and percolation area, relocation of existing entrance and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561482/0 - 23 Feb 2022, Galway County Council 2260145: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a domestic garage at the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 65 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260145/0 - 11 Feb 2022, Galway County Council 22163: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank and treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 245 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22163/0 - 3 May 2017, Galway County Council 17615: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for serviced dwelling house (granted under planning ref. 99/4679) and retention of domestic store (Existing house 182sqm, Domestic garage/store 9sqm). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17615/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Marley. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA029-121: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-121----. Circa 20m N of a ringfort (GA029-122----). Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 49.3m, E-W 43.7m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is extant from NW through N to NE and at SW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse does not survive from SW through W to NNE. Entrance gap at SE. Field walls encircle the monument. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA029-122: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-122----. On S-facing slope of a ridge in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 63m, E-W 60m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives from N through S to WNW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The outer bank is extant from NE through E to SSE, and is overlain by a field wall at ESE. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A gap at S appears modern Two ringforts (GA029-121----, GA029-123----) lie c. 20m to N and c. 150m to ESE respectively. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA029-123: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-123----. Circa 150m to ESE of a ringfort (GA029-122----). Oval rath (N-S 59m, E-W 53m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field bank overlies the outer bank at S, and another runs just outside it at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Marley. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Marley, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_747, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_747.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/marley.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/marley.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/marley.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Marley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghlisk: https://everytownland.com/galway/aghlisk.md - Ardacong: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardacong.md - Garrauns: https://everytownland.com/galway/garrauns-62115.md - Keeloges: https://everytownland.com/galway/keeloges-62534.md - Lissavally (Jackson): https://everytownland.com/galway/lissavally-jackson.md - Quaybaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/quaybaun.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/marley - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/marley