Marshalstown
Marshalstown is a townland in the civil parish of Killelan, barony of Kilkea and Moone, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Baile Mharascail.
- Area
- 142.9 ha
- 353 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marshalstown, from 556 m² to 489,609 m² (48.96 ha, 120.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Jan 2026Conditional
Provision of covered loading area in place of permitted floorspace in storage of raw materials building. Planning permission is sought to complete the development of the covered loading area. The overall size of the raw materials building has been reduced to c. 1000 sq.m; Reduction in height of previously permitted extension to office/ packing building by 3.4m and elevational changes; Amended layout and design to previously permitted office and an increase in floorspace of c. 11.4 sq.m. There will be an increase over the permitted building height of 0.84m. Increase in size of previously permitted storage of finished product/ packaging building of c. 21 sq.m. There will be a reduction in building height of 2.5m; Elevational changes to previously permitted barrel/ IBC storage building; Reduction in size of previously permitted extension to the processing shed of c. 113 sq.m, internal reconfiguration and associated elevational changes. Provision of a weighbridge; Provision of a bund adjacent to the prefill building; Relocation of 1 no. previously permitted sliding gate; Installation of 1 no. additional sliding gate; Provision of 8 no. carparking spaces including 5 no. EV spaces; Amendments to permitted hard and soft landscaping areas and additional landscaping, including for extended concrete yard area. Elevational changes to the packing, airlock, and storage of raw materials buildings; 2 no. sliding gates that were previously permitted as opening gates (1 in a relocated position).
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660046
8 Aug 2023Conditional
Application to extend the appropriate period of planning register reference 17/813 for a development as follows: the proposed scheme seeks the retention of storage tanks / containers/ plant, office / packing / lab / airlock and bucket store buildings, hardcore yards / access road, concrete yards, landscaping works, concrete wall / palisade fencing, light stands, installation of a waste water treatment system and change of use from agriculture to storage area for food manufacturing and access road. Permission is sought for an extension to the existing processing building to comprise of prefill, packing, airlock, office and raw materials storage buildings, an extension to the existing office / packing building to provide additional packing space, an extension to the existing processing shed to provide a storage shed, a finished product storage building and a barrel / IBC storage building; concrete yards, gantry walkways, 5 No. car parking spaces, associated landscaping works including palisade fencing and crash barrier and all site development works above and below ground. It is also proposed to provide for a separate vehicular entrance to Bolton Biofuels Ltd., and install a wetland area to the south of the site to treat surface water runoff. The application site is c. 2.2 hectares
Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 23836
24 Jun 2019Conditional
the erection of an extension to existing loose sheds, milking parlour and collecting yard, cattle handling area, dairy, machine room, farm office, slatted tanks, meal bin, unroofed silage pit, manure pit, effluent tank, concrete yards and ancillary works. Marshalstown House is a protected structure, Ref. B38-14 in Kildare County Development Plan. Development at this site
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19708
16 May 2019N/a
the erection of an extension to existing loose sheds, milking parlour and collecting yard, cattle handling area, dairy, machine room, farm office, slatted tanks, meal bin, unroofed silage pit, manure pit, effluent tank, concrete yards and ancillary works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 19544
23 Aug 2018Refused
To Erect a dwelling house, garage, well, Oakstown Effluent Treatment System, raised percolation area, splayed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 181029
18 Oct 2017Refused
sought to erect a dwelling house, garage, well, Oakstown effluent treatment system, raised percolation area, splayed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171154
4 Oct 2017N/a
sought to erect a dwelling house, garage, well, Oakstown effluent treatment system, raised percolation area, splayed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171093
13 Jul 2017Conditional
Permission and retention permission for development at existing premises, the proposed scheme seeks the retention of storage tanks / containers/ plant, office / packing / lab / airlock and bucket store buildings, hardcore yards / access road, concrete yards, landscaping works, concrete wall / palisade fencing, light stands, installation of a waste water treatment system and change of use from agriculture to storage area for food manufacturing and access road. Permission is sought for an extension to the existing processing building to comprise of prefill, packing, airlock, office and raw materials storage buildings, an extension to the existing office / packing building to provide additional packing space, an extension to the existing processing shed to provide a storage shed, a finished product storage building and a barrel / IBC storage building; concrete yards, gantry walkways, 5 No. car parking spaces, associated landscaping works including palisade fencing and crash barrier and all site development works above and below ground. It is also proposed to provide for a separate vehicular entrance to Bolton Biofuels Ltd., and install a wetland area to the south of the site to treat surface water runoff. The application site is c. 2.2 hectares.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17813
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 Marshalstown.
Recorded monuments
- KD038-039 Moated site
Description
Aerial photograph (CUCAP AYL 56) shows a cropmark of a fosse defining rectangular enclosure (est. dims. c. 35m x 35m). Probably a moated site. No visible surface trace. Date of upload: 15 September 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Marshalstown.
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 Marshalstown, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2605 (ZIP).
- 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 Marshalstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Marshalstown · Baile Mharascail
- Area
- 1,429,361 m² (142.94 ha, 353.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killelan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Electoral division
- Carrigeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 644 people lived in 235 households in the Carrigeen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aylmerstown, Ballynacarrick Lower, Grangeford, Moatavanny, Narraghbeg, Roscolvin, Sheriffhill
- 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.