Marlbrook
Townland in the civil parish of Crecora, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Glaise an Mharla
- Area
- 14.8 ha
- 37 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 74,207 m² (7.42 ha, 18.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marlbrook, from 65,797 m² (6.58 ha, 16.26 acres) to 82,616 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Marlbrook 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
14 Jun 2026Conditional
two ancillary domestic structures serving existing dwelling house consisting of: a) a detached covered 2 bay carport to the side of the property, and b) a detached, single storey garden outbuilding for ancillary residential use together with associated patio and covered pergola to the rear of existing house
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660658
23 Dec 2021Refused
two storey dwelling house, stables, garage, with septic tank and percolation area, new entrance gates, single storey gate lodge with septic tank and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 3 homes · Limerick County Council, 211830
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 Marlbrook.
Recorded monuments
- LI022-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
In low-lying poorly drained pasture, to the immediate S of a stream, with moderate to restricted views in all directions. The townland boundary with Ballymurphy lies 10m to W. Depicted on the revised 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. A fulacht fiadh (LI022-012----) lies 240m to SW. Monument surveyed in 1988 and described as a high circular-shaped earthen platform (23m E-W; 21m N-S; H 1.5m) enclosed by a broad bank-like feature at E and enclosed by a very wide and shallow fosse. There is a possible entrance at S. There is a field fence at W and a drain at N, on the outer edge of the fosse. Monument surveyed by Celie O’Rahilly in 1993 and described as a recently ploughed out site, having no grass in contrast to the surrounding field. Exposed on the surface is a loamy mixture of a soft friable, almost sandy soil, which is black in places and with extents of an ash and soil mixture. Animal bones were abundant and some showing signs of butchering and having been burnt. Some small boulders were noted in the SE quadrant of the levelled monument and may have been part of the enclosing bank. In the same quadrant, a light coloured, hard clay was exposed or overturned and may represent the natural subsoil. According to local information, this monument seems to have been a platform type of enclosure. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a slight rise in a gently undulating tillage field. The site is ploughed out and there is no visible trace of an enclosing element. Monument is visible as a dark green roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 August 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Marlbrook.
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_932 (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 Marlbrook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Marlbrook · Glaise an Mharla
- Area
- 147,824 m² (14.78 ha, 36.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crecora, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Kilpeacon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilpeacon electoral division: 561 people in 192 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymurphy, Ballyshane, Greenhills, Skehanagh
- Placenames
- Marlbrook 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.