Marshallspark
Townland in the civil parish of Ballynacourty, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Páirc an Mharascalaigh
- Area
- 11.9 ha
- 29 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 4,203 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marshallspark, from 236 m² to 13,098 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Marshallspark 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
5 May 2026Refused
for the construction of a new single storey dwelling, ancillary domestic gym/store, new access, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area & all associated site works. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660683
2 Apr 2026Conditional
for the following alterations: changes to garage building to include c. 12.5sqm increase of gym room and minor adjustment of the garage location relative to dwelling house; enclosure of c.15sqm of previously permitted first floor balcony area to the master bedroom; partial alteration of previously permitted lower pitch roof to a flat roof area to the rear; associated elevational changes. Retention and completion permission is being sought for the following: minor alterations to boundaries and entrance gate(s); repositioning of PV panels from lower pitch roof to a ground level array adjacent to the northeast boundary to the rear of the site; alterations to previously submitted landscape plan. All on revised site boundaries
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660502
11 Dec 2025N/a
for the construction of a new single storey dwelling, ancillary domestic gym/store, new access, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area & all associated site works. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561833
10 Jan 2025Conditional
for the construction of a new single storey dwelling, ancillary domestic gym/store, new access, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area & all associated site works. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560017
18 Dec 2024Conditional
to construct a dwelling house with attached domestic garage and installation of a wastewater treatment system as well as all ancillary site works and services. The planning application is accompanied with a Natura Impact Statement (NIS). Gross floor space of proposed works: 316 sqm(house) & 21.00 sqm(garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461750
5 Jul 2024Conditional
for revised house plans and revised sewage treatment location from those previously approved under Pl Ref 2361105. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is included with the planning application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.30 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460836
15 Sept 2023Conditional
for dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment/percolation & all associated services. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted with this appliaction
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361105
21 Mar 2023Conditional
for the demolition of 2 No. uninhabited/derelict houses together with their associated outbuildings and construction of a new replacement dwelling house and garage (proposed floor space: house c.396 sqm, garage c.38sqm), upgrade of existing treatment system and all associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with this application
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23113
22 Dec 2022Refused
for the construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works.Gross floor space of proposed works 263.00sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261298
8 Apr 2022N/a
to construct a proposed single dwelling house, detached garage and proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 306 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22481
29 Mar 2022Refused
Dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 298.30 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260289
24 Mar 2022Conditional
for the construction of a detached domestic garage. Gross floor area of proposed works: 40 sqm (domestic garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260274
17 Feb 2022Conditional
to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space proposed works: 152.6sqm + 37.5sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22197
14 Oct 2021Refused
for dwelling house, garage, on sale wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed work: House: 266.25 sqm, Garage: 32 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211903
18 Jun 2019Conditional
for the demolition of a single storey extension and replacement with a two storey extension on same footprint to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works 227.0 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 118.0 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19916
22 Dec 2017N/a
for alterations to existing house, addition of new first floor extension over existing single storey ground floor to the rear including associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works 106.0sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 472.5sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 171876
21 Feb 2017Conditional
a) the construction completion of a dwelling house over existing basement structure on a site where a dwelling house was previously permitted under planning reference 96/2022 (b) the retention of existing basement structure and (c) proprietary sewage treatement unit and soil polishing filter and all associated site development works and services. Gross floor space proposed 134sqm, to be retained 143.3sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17220
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
- Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Marshallspark.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Marshallspark.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_531 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Marshallspark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Marshallspark · Páirc an Mharascalaigh
- Area
- 118,611 m² (11.86 ha, 29.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynacourty, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Ballynacourty, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynacourty electoral division: 1,233 people in 428 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardfry, Rinville West, Treanlaur
- Placenames
- Marshallspark 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.