Marlay

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marlay, from 695 m² to 189,406 m² (18.94 ha, 46.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

• 29 Jan 2026Conditional

  Permission sought for works to a protected structure and includes (1) to construct a 5.8m2 entry lobby, (2) extend an existing plant room and corridor to create a utility room (3) construct a new domestic garage, plus associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660039

• 31 Aug 2022Refused

  Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22690

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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

• LH018-041 Chapel
  Description

  Marked on the 1911 'OS 6-inch' map as 'Mortuary chapel'. Situated in a small enclosure, which is higher than the field in which it stands. The foundations of a small rectangular building (5.5m x 4m) with corner buttresses and a buttress on the outside of the N and S wall were visible in 1966 when inspected by ASI. Davies (1944, 284) suggests that the building was never completed. A cross-inscribed slab (LH018-041001-) found here is now in St. Peters Church in Drogheda (Davies 1944, 284). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 5 July 2012

• LH018-041001 Cross-slab
  Description

  This cross-inscribed slab was moved from the chapel at Marlay (see LH018-041----) to the porch of St. Peter's church (see LH024-041101- for present location). The slab is roughly circular (max. L 0.82m; max. Wth 0.82m) with very irregular edges. It bears two crudely incised Latin crosses placed side by side. One is a linear cross with slightly curving bifid terminals. The other is a more elaborate version, with a linear circle joining the shaft and arms and a single incised line partly outlining the cross. The outer line is slightly convex rather than forked at three of the terminals and is missing above the upper terminal. An Irish inscription above and below the crosses reads 'Tnudach Cocmanf'. The crosses and inscription are enclosed by a roughly circular linear frame which is now partly defaced. (Davies 1944, 284; Lionard 1961, 102, fig. l: 10; Macalister 1949, 31). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (entry 958) (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 July 2012

Architectural heritage

• Rokeby Hall, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement former gate lodge, built c. 1820, now in private domestic use. Square-plan, cast-iron lean-to return to north. Hipped slate roof, concrete ridge, red brick corbelled chimneystack, cast-iron gutters on rendered corbelled eaves course. Painted smooth rendered walling, rendered quoins and plinth, lime-washed walling to north and south elevations and basement. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows, timber casement windows to basement. Square-headed door opening, now boarded up, concrete and tooled limestone steps to door forming bridge over basement, smooth rendered plinth walling; square-headed door opening to basement, painted timber vertically-sheeted door; concrete steps to east leading to basement. Remains of rendered walling to north-east with triangular coping. Situated to west side of road, Rokeby Hall to south.

• Marlay, home farm, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farm house, built c. 1800, extended to north c. 1850. Pitched slate roof, lead ridge, stone verge coping to gables, red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walling, render removed, dressed limestone block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window opening, dressed limestone lintels and sills, exposed red brick surrounds, painted timber sliding sash windows, red brick window heads to ground floor, tooled limestone surrounds to north elevation. Square-headed door opening, dressed limestone surround, painted timber panelled door, plain-glazed overlight, three stone steps to door, square-headed door opening to north, shouldered and kneed dressed limestone door surround, painted timber and glazed door, stone step to entrance. Single- and two-storey outbuildings attached to north, comprising former stables and coach house; pitched slate roofs, lime-washed random rubble stone walls, square-headed window and door openings, dressed limestone surrounds, round-headed openings further north. House set in own grounds, walled garden to east, date stone in garden wall (east) reads "1851".

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Marlay.

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.

No address of the register names Marlay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Marlay · Baile Bhearlaí

Area

827,163 m² (82.72 ha, 204.4 acres)

Civil parish

Marlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clogher electoral division: 3,446 people in 1,141 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burren, Carrickbaggot, Cloghlea, Drumin, Morganstown, Rokeby

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.