Marshtown
Marshtown is a townland in the civil parish of Lismore and Mocollop, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Ghaiméisigh.
Parcel 2159986
- Area
- 6,957 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 102 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Marshtown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 138.7 ha
- 343 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 282 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marshtown, from 45 m² to 436,219 m² (43.62 ha, 107.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Marshtown 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
24 Jul 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for retention of two machinery sheds and stables and planning permission for a slatted livestock house with slatted tank,loose house, overhang, silage slab, effluent tank and associated works
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1975
10 Jul 2024N/a
for he Construction of a New Farm Entrance to the Land Holding, 48m to the East of Existing Dwelling Entrance
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460389
8 Apr 2024N/a
for construction of a New Farm Entrance, 26m to the East of Existing Dwelling Entrance
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460167
25 Feb 2020Conditional
To construct a milking parlour with holding yard and effluent tank, cubicle house, feeding passage with slatted tank, silage slab, feed bin and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4383
24 Sept 2018N/a
the construction of a 720m2 Farm Building
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 18643
18 Dec 2017Conditional
Construct single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling, minor alterations to non original internal layout of existing dwelling and all associated ancillary site works. The existing dwelling is recorded in the national inventory of architectural heritage (Record Number 20903703)
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7324
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 Marshtown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Marshtown.
Architectural heritage
- Marston, gate lodge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1860, now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks with moulded copings. Painted rendered walls with windbreak to entrance. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having painted render sills. Pointed arch openings to rear with decorative terracotta keystones and four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and render sills. Square-headed glazed timber door. Square-profile rendered piers with roughcast render panels having cast-iron double-leaf gates. Rendered walls with roughcast render panels and render copings terminating in second pair of piers.
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 Marshtown, about 1 in 5 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_1468 (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 Marshtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Marshtown · Baile an Ghaiméisigh
- Area
- 1,387,465 m² (138.75 ha, 342.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Knockmourne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,415 people lived in 481 households in the Knockmourne electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduff Upper (Co. Waterford), Ballynerroon East (Co. Waterford), Bawnbrack (Co. Waterford), Cloonbeg (Co. Waterford), Garrynagoul, Shean, Shean Beg (Co. Waterford)
- Placenames
- Marshtown 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.