Emlaghslat

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emlaghslat, from 57 m² to 234,244 m² (23.42 ha, 57.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Emlaghslat 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.

• 31 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) retain as constructed dwelling house and detached domestic garage served by an existing septic tank system and all ancillary site services and ( 2) retain all buildings within revised site boundaries

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660823

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  To retain extension constructed to the rear of the dwelling house on site and Planning Permission to ( A ) demolish a section of an existing dwelling house, including all flat roofed area’s to North Western gable and to the rear of the existing dwelling house ( B ) Demolish attached garage to rear of existing dwelling house, ( C ) construct an extension to both the North Western & South Eastern gables and an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house with internal modifications to the existing layout to accommodate proposed works including modifications to front façade and ( D ) relocate the existing site vehicular entrance (E) Decommission the existing septic tank system on site and install a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560053

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  (A) RETAIN (1) AS CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND A DOMESTIC SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND (2) RETAIN EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES, AND (3) RETAIN ALL BUILDINGS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND (B) FULL PLANNING PERMISSION TO (1) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO FRONT ELEVATION (2) CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION WHICH WILL INCLUDE REMOVAL OF EXISTING STONE CLADDING, MODIFICATION OF EXISTING WINDOW SIZES AND THE REMOVAL OF A CHIMNEY AND (3) MODIFY EXISTING VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23956

• 9 Dec 2022N/a

  (A) (1) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND A DOMESTIC SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND (2) RETAIN EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES AND (3) RETAIN ALL BUILDINGS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND (B) FULL PERMISSION TO (1) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO FRONT ELEVATION, (2) CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO FRONT ELEVATION WHICH WILL INCLUDE REMOVAL OF EXISTING STONE CLADDING, MODIFICATION OF EXISTING WINDOW SIZES AND THE REMOVAL OF A CHIMNEY, AND (3) MOPDIFY EXISTING VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCES

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 221289

• 24 Jun 2022Conditional

  (1) RETAIN THE DEMOLITION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND FLAT WITH A TOTAL AREA OF 134SQM, PREVIOUSLY LOCATED ON THE SUBJECT SITE AND SUSEQUENTLY DEMOLISHED FOR SAFETY REASONS. (2) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND FLAT ON A SITE OF 0.15HA, APPROXIMATELY

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22668

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  A) CONSTRUCT A TWO-STOREY AND SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING TWO DWELLINGS, B) CONVERT SMALLER DWELLING TO A FLAT FOR FAMILY USE ONLY, ANCILLARY TO THE LARGER DWELLING, C) A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA, D) ALTER VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO REAR, D) ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21501

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: Ventry Dunes And Marshes 001384

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Emlaghslat.

Architectural heritage

• Séipéal Chaitlín Naofa [Saint Catherine's Catholic Church], church/chapel, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Roman Catholic church, built c. 1875, with five-bay nave, two-bay single-storey sacristy projection to north-east corner and bellcote to south gable end. Renovated and extended to north gable end, c. 1965, with single-bay full-height polygonal apse. Pitched slate roof with contrasting bands of green slates, clay ridge tiles, gable parapets with limestone copings and springers, replacement gutter limestone eaves corbel table and having limestone ashlar chimneystack to sacristy. Random red sandstone walls with imitation ashlar to chancel and having limestone ashlar bellcote to west gable. Pointed arch openings with limestone surrounds. West windows have hood mouldings on carved bosses and have a shared sill with end bosses. Hood mouldings to timber double-leaf doors. Open truss roof to interior with trusses supported on wall corbels. Pointed chancel arch. Plaster ribs and cornice to chancel. Chancel remodelled. Two stained glass panels to chancel. Elaborate cast-iron supports to seating. Rubble stone boundary walls to site.

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

At the centre of the townland of Emlaghslat, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Emlaghslat.

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.

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

Name

Emlaghslat · Imleach Slat

Area

773,239 m² (77.32 ha, 191.07 acres)

Civil parish

Ventry, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Ventry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

422 people lived in 182 households in the Ventry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytrasna, Cantra, Rahinnane, Rahinnane West, Ventry

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Emlaghslat 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.