# Marlay, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Marlestown, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Bhearlaí.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 827,163 m² (82.72 ha, 204.4 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 44,620 m² (4.46 ha, 11.03 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Marlestown, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/marlestown.md
- Barony: Ferrard
- Electoral division: Clogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,446 people lived in 1,141 households in the Clogher electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33970
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140411
- Centre: latitude 53.81437, longitude -6.354542 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marlay, from 695 m² to 189,406 m² (18.94 ha, 46.8 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1091392: 189,406 m² (18.94 ha, 46.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091392.md
- Parcel 1132362: 142,946 m² (14.29 ha, 35.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132362.md
- Parcel 1096953: 118,792 m² (11.88 ha, 29.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096953.md
- Parcel 1119165: 108,989 m² (10.9 ha, 26.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119165.md
- Parcel 1118000: 74,636 m² (7.46 ha, 18.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1118000.md
- Parcel 1112329: 56,343 m² (5.63 ha, 13.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1112329.md
- Parcel 1107571: 48,725 m² (4.87 ha, 12.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1107571.md
- Parcel 1116839: 40,515 m² (4.05 ha, 10.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1116839.md
- Parcel 5136370: 9,939 m² (0.99 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5136370.md
- Parcel 2474601: 8,702 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474601.md
- Parcel 4570150: 4,175 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4570150.md
- Parcel 1103317: 1,690 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1103317.md
- Parcel 6012237: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6012237.md
- Parcel 1107572: 695 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1107572.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 29 Jan 2026, Louth County Council 2660039: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660039/0
- 31 Aug 2022, Louth County Council 22690: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22690/0

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 Marlay.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LH018-041: Chapel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH018-041----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH018-041001-. 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

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)

- Rokeby Hall, gate lodge, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 13901809, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH&regno=13901809. 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, registry number 13901810, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH&regno=13901810. 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".

## 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 Marlay, about 1 in 20 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: 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, 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/louth/marlay.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/marlay.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/marlay.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Marlay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Burren: https://everytownland.com/louth/burren.md
- Carrickbaggot: https://everytownland.com/louth/carrickbaggot.md
- Cloghlea: https://everytownland.com/louth/cloghlea.md
- Drumin: https://everytownland.com/louth/drumin-140243.md
- Morganstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/morganstown.md
- Rokeby: https://everytownland.com/louth/rokeby.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.

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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/louth/marlay
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/marlay