Marley
Townland in the civil parish of Monart, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Marlaigh
- Area
- 53.9 ha
- 133 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,203 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marley, from 1,056 m² to 279,272 m² (27.93 ha, 69.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Marley 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
19 Feb 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct an agricultural shed with associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240167
24 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house with associated site wor
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211358
29 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct an agricultural shed with associated site works at
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210118
15 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of extension and alterations to existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201061
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 Marley.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Marley.
Architectural heritage
- Marley House, farm house, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey part double-pile farmhouse, dated 1892, on an L-shaped plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched part double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having stringcourses below stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, lichen-spotted concrete or rendered coping to gables, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls; lime rendered or roughcast surface finish to rear (east) elevation. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess approached by flight of three lichen-spotted steps with carved timber mullions supporting carved timber transom, and concealed dressings with hood moulding framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows behind looped wrought iron railings. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
- Marley Bridge, bridge, 1842–1904 · Regional interest
Description
Two-arch road bridge over stream, extant 1904. Broken coursed rubble stone battered walls between broken coursed rubble stone battered piers with cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping centred on rubble stone angled soldier course coping. Pair of camber or segmental arches with granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning stream with unkempt banks to stream.
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 moderately low, 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_2849 (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 Marley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Marley · Marlaigh
- Area
- 538,985 m² (53.9 ha, 133.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monart, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Marshalstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Marshalstown electoral division: 1,113 people in 387 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydaw or Davidstown, Monart East, Pullinstown Big, Pullinstown Little, Woodlands
- Placenames
- Marley 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.