Marvelstown
Marvelstown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbeg, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 108.6 ha
- 268 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,668 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marvelstown, from 355 m² to 553,617 m² (55.36 ha, 136.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Feb 2019Conditional
the construction of a single story dwelling, domestic garage, domestic entrance, septic tank and percolation area, including all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA190147
30 May 2017Conditional
the development will consist of (1) Construction of an agricultural slatted shed to incorporate slatted areas, underground slurry storage tank and external feed passage areas. (2) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated structures. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, KA170604
10 May 2017N/a
the development will consist of (1) Construction of an agricultural slatted shed to incorporate slatted areas, underground slurry storage tank and external feed passage areas. (2) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated structures
Permission · Meath County Council, KA170500
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 Marvelstown.
Recorded monuments
- ME011-055 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the tip of a short S-N spur and c. 120m NNW of Marvelstown House. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) defined by what might be the remnants of an earthen bank is visible on various MapGenie, Google Earth and Bing images. It was first reported by Anne-Karoline Distel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Marvelstown.
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 Marvelstown, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Marvelstown.
- 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 Marvelstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Marvelstown
- Area
- 1,086,073 m² (108.61 ha, 268.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Cruicetown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 417 people lived in 139 households in the Cruicetown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clooney, Drakerath, Moydorragh, Newtown, Robertstown, Thomastown
- Placenames
- Marvelstown 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.