Marsh

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marsh, from 828 m² to 469,643 m² (46.96 ha, 116.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3pNHA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Mixed Use (Other mix of uses)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  the following works to connect Avoca River Park to public services: • an underground foul pump station and an above ground kiosk with a total height of 1.8m within a secure compound located on lands at Avoca River Park; • a watermain with a total length of c. 2.2km and a foul rising main with a total length of c. 2.2km from the proposed pump station, traversing lands within Avoca River Park, the existing trackway through the marsh, 10 and 11 Ferrybank and terminating in the public road (R772); • installation of fibre connections with a total length of c. 2.2km with fibre ducts; • connection to the existing Uisce Éireann foul network and watermain network; • all associated site development works above and below ground

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660038

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  • 1 no. ICT facility building with a gross floor area (GFA) of c. 36,655 sq.m and a total parapet height of c.19.5m. • 2 no. ICT facilities each with a GFA of c. 4,428 sq.m and a total parapet height of c. 10.5m. • Each of the ICT facilities will accommodate ICT equipment rooms, external mechanical equipment areas, electrical equipment rooms, network rooms, ancillary office space, storage and loading bays; • The construction of a solar farm development consisting of photovoltaic (PV) panel arrays covering an area of approximately c. 2.7 ha in the east of the site, on ground mounted steel frames, underground cabling and ducting, a new gated internal track for maintenance and all associated site services works; • Relocation of the customer transformer compound permitted under WCC Reg. Ref.: 21/1080 as amended by WCC Reg. Ref.: 23/843; • The provision of process water and domestic water split tanks, process water and domestic water plantrooms, rainwater harvesting tanks, chlorine dosing kiosk, sprinkler pump rooms, sprinkler tanks, fire hydrant pump room and hydrant tank; • The provision of an internal road network and circulation areas, footpaths, 104 no. car parking spaces and 100 no. cycle parking spaces; • The construction site access arrangements and amendments to the internal road network permitted under WCC Reg. Ref.: 21/1080 as amended by WCC Reg. Ref.: 23/843; • Landscaping and planting, boundary treatments, site lighting, security fencing, all associated site works including underground foul and storm water drainage network, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) measures, and utility cables, and all ancillary works. The operation of the proposed development will require an EPA Industrial Emissions Directive (IE) Licence. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560594

• 23 May 2025Refused

  demolition of 3 no. structures on site including a 2-storey habitable house (total GFA 207 sq.m) and 2 no. sheds/outbuildings (c.580 sq.m). Closures of 2 no. existing entrances onto the Kilbride Road (L-6179). Construction of a new residential development and local centre comprising: 666 no. units (578 no. semi-detached and terraced housing (100 no. 2 beds, 317 no. 3 beds, 161 no. 4 beds) and 88 no. apartments and duplex apartments (24 no. 1 beds, 51 no. 2 beds and 13 no. 3 beds)). All residential units will have associated private open space facing north/ south/ east/ west. The proposal will also include a local centre (c. 2335 sq.m) comprising a creche (c.1,095sqm) with outdoor play area, 3 no. community/medical units (c.450 sq.m), and 3 no. retail units (c.790sq.m). Building heights within the development will range from one to five storeys. The development will include streets, pedestrian/cycle links, open spaces/parks (with play areas) and will include amendments to the permitted open spaces and access road granted as part of the Phase 1/Character Area 1a development (WCC Reg. Ref.: 23/756 on the subject lands. The development will also include a public boardwalk/bridge for pedestrians and cyclists from the development across Arklow Town Marsh and the Avoca River to the Arklow Riverwalk north of Arklow Town Car Park and the Town Centre, with the bridge element (and associated works) across the Avoca River constructed atop the concrete columns (debris traps) permitted as part of the Arklow Flood Relief Scheme (Planning Ref. ABP-310368-21). All associated site development works, site reprofiling, infrastructural and drainage works, surface water attenuation and natural attenuation areas, connection to public services and utilities (including undergrounding of ESB lines), provision of substations, bin stores, bicycle stores, car and cycle parking at surface and undercroft levels, public lighting, landscaping and planting, public/communal/private open spaces and boundary treatment works. This development will form part of the designated Kilbride Action Area Plan AAP3

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560387

• 17 Nov 2023Conditional

  proposed development. The proposed development includes an amendment to the development permitted under Reg. Ref. 21/1080, The proposed development will consist of the following to facilitate the above. Demolition of the existing structures on the western part of the site that comprises 4 no. industrial commercial buildings, an associated hut / outbuilding, a gas enclosure, and a tank with bund wall. The removal of the remains of a previously demolished building, areas of hard standing, and existing surface treatments. The relocation of the Energy Centre 1 to the western part of the site, which will supersede the previously permitted 110kV GIS substation compound at that location under ABP Ref: VA27.309252. The proposed development will provide for a revised energy centre design, to include the provision of 8 no. gas turbines (with associated flues of 25.15m in height), 4 no. black start emergency generators and associated transformers, 2 no. single storey fuel oil pump rooms with a gross floor area (GFA) of 90.17sq.m, a single storey air compressor building with a GFA of 88.9sq.m, 4 no. fuel tanks, 2 no. MCC control rooms with a GFA of 44.17sq.m, 3 no. fire water tanks, a single storey welfare, storage, and pump room building with a combined GFA of 160.97 sq.m, a two storey MV /LV building with a GFA of 655.54sq.m, 8 no. 11kV/ 33kV step-up transformers in the north of the site, water treatment equipment, and a security hut, all within a fenced compound. The proposed development includes landscaping and planting, boundary treatments, lighting, security fencing, car parking, and all site works including underground foul and storm water drainage network (including on-site wastewater treatment system), and utility cables, along with all associated and ancillary works. An EPA- Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) licence will be applied for to facilitate the operation of the proposed development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23843

• 31 Aug 2021Conditional

  Full ten-year planning permission for development on this site located at Avoca River Park, Arklow, Co. Wicklow. The proposed development is to be located within the townlands of Shelton Abbey and Marsh. The site is bound to the west by the site of a permitted data storage facility development (permitted under Reg. Ref.: 201285), to the north by the access road to Avoca River Park, to the south by undeveloped lands and to the east by undeveloped lands beyond which is the M11 motorway. The proposed development consists of the following: •All site clearance and enabling works required to facilitate the development. •Construction of 2 no. energy centre buildings (Energy Centre 1 and Energy Centre 2) each with a height to parapet level of c. 13.85 metres. •Energy Centre 1 will comprise a gross floor area (GFA) of 5,965 sq.m. within a single storey building and will accommodate 12 no. generators. 4 no. flues 33 metres in height will be accommodated along with south-western elevation of the building. •Energy Centre 2 will comprise a GFA of 9,180 sq.m. within a single storey building and will accommodate 18 no. generators. 6 no. flues 33 metres in height will be accommodated along the south-western elevation of the building. •Construction of a battery compound to provide electricity storage and backup power, located to the northeast of Energy Centre 2, to comprise 27 no. battery arrays within a compound area of c. 0.7 hectares. A single storey MV switch-room building (c. 181 sq.m. GFA) will be provided to the west of the battery compound. •Provision of a transformer compound (to the northwest of Energy Centre 1), along with a welfare building (c.38 sq.m. GFA).•Provision of fuel storage tanks (2 no.) within a bunded compound to the north of Energy Centre 2.•Construction of a new access from the existing estate access road to the north of the site, internal road network and circulation areas, footpaths, provision of 6 no. car parking spaces and 4 no. cycle parking spaces. •Landscaping and planting, boundary treatments, lighting, security fencing and all associated ancillary and site works including underground foul and storm water drainage network (including on-site wastewater treatment system) and utility cables

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211080

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arklow Town Marsh 001931

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Marsh.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Marsh.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3351 (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.

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

Name

Marsh · An Méirse

Area

825,919 m² (82.59 ha, 204.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow No. 2 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Arklow No. 2 Urban electoral division: 3,023 people in 1,129 households; 61% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyraine Lower, Ferrybank, Kilbride, Shelton Abbey, Tiknock, Yardland

Placenames

Marsh 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.