Eglish

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eglish, from 696 m² to 128,115 m² (12.81 ha, 31.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Eglish 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.

• 13 Nov 2020Conditional

  build a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20590

• 2 Oct 2017Conditional

  construction of an Agricultural Underpass and precast Soiled Water Tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17531

• 20 Sept 2017N/a

  (a) construct an agricultural underpass and precstg oiled water tank and all associted site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17510

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 the townland of Eglish.

Recorded monuments

• LA027-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A partially destroyed low mound (diam. 58m) defined by a scarp (max. H c. 1.75m). Probably the natural platform the site was built. Described as a rath (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA027-030 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in a low lying area. Known as Church (LA027-03001-) of St. Nicholas and was 48 feet long (Carrigan 1905, 66). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'It is now called Eglish, but it was formerly known as Eglish-Nichole. Ie., Ecclesia Sancti Nicholai, or Church of St. Nicholas. It was, several centuries ago, a parish church, and its parish is mentioned as 'Rectoria de Templenicholl', in a Taxation of the Diocese made in 1537. In the Vetus Ordo Visitationis Episcoplais in Dioec. Oss. It is mentioned as the 'Capellania in Rectoria de Kildermoy', which shows it had, in the course of time, lost its parochial status and become a dependent of the Church of Kylermugh. Of the church or chapel only the foundations now appear. They show it to have been about 48 feet long. Tradition affirms that a very ancient monastery stood here, and that many of the monks suffered death at the hands of some ruthless invaders (probably the Danes). All around the church are traces of foundations, & c., covering three-quarters of an Irish acre. The graveyard has been unused for so very long a period that no graves or grave-stones, are now visible.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). Rectangular shaped graveyard (int. dims. 27m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church in centre of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA027-030001 Church
  Description

  Reference to a church site (L c. 14.4m) associated with St Nicholas. Only the foundations survived in the early 1900s, with further building foundations around it. Tradition of a monastery here. No grave-markers were visible in the graveyard (LA027-030003-) which had been disused for a long period of time (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'It is now called Eglish, but it was formerly known as Eglish-Nichole. ie., Ecclesia Sancti Nicholai, or Church of St. Nicholas. It was, several centuries ago, a parish church, and its parish is mentioned as 'Rectoria de Templenicholl', in a Taxation of the Diocese made in 1537. In the Vetus Ordo Visitationis Episcoplais in Dioec. Oss. It is mentioned as the 'Capellania in Rectoria de Kildermoy', which shows it had, in the course of time, lost its parochial status and become a dependent of the Church of Kylermugh. Of the church or chapel only the foundations now appear. They show it to have been about 48 feet long. Tradition affirms that a very ancient monastery stood here, and that many of the monks suffered death at the hands of some ruthless invaders (probably the Danes). All around the church are remains of foundations, & c., covering three-quarters of an Irish acre. The graveyard has been unused for so very long a period that no graves or grave-stones, are now visible.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA027-030002 Building
  Description

  'All around the church are traces of foundations and covering three quarters of an Irish acre', (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'It is now called Eglish, but it was formerly known as Eglish-Nichole. Ie., Ecclesia Sancti Nicholai, or Church of St. Nicholas. It was, several centuries ago, a parish church, and its parish is mentioned as 'Rectoria de Templenicholl', in a Taxation of the Diocese made in 1537. In the Vetus Ordo Visitationis Episcoplais in Dioec. Oss. It is mentioned as the 'Capellania in Rectoria de Kildermoy', which shows it had, in the course of time, lost its parochial status and become a dependent of the Church of Kylermugh. Of the church or chapel only the foundations now appear. They show it to have been about 48 feet long. Tradition affirms that a very ancient monastery stood here, and that many of the monks suffered death at the hands of some ruthless invaders (probably the Danes). All around the church are traces of foundations, & c., covering three-quarters of an Irish acre. The graveyard (LA027-030003-) has been unused for so very long a period that no graves or grave-stones, are now visible.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA027-030003 Graveyard
  Description

  Known as Church (LA027-030001-) of St. Nicholas and was 48 feet long (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). Only the foundations survived in the early 1900s, with further building foundations (LA027-030002-) around it. Tradition of a monastery here. No grave markers were visible in the graveyard which had been disused for a long period of time (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). No visible surface remains. All around the church are traces of foundations, & c., covering three-quarters of an Irish acre. The graveyard has been unused for so very long a period that no graves or grave-stones, are now visible.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 66). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Rathsaran Church, church/chapel, 1795–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay Georgian Gothic Church of Ireland church, built 1797, with three-stage tower and vestry projection.

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 5 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_1855 (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 Eglish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Eglish · An Eaglais

Area

482,232 m² (48.22 ha, 119.16 acres)

Civil parish

Rathsaran, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Rathsaran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathsaran electoral division: 604 people in 218 households; 84% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Borraghaun, Castlegrogan, Graigueavallagh, Grogan, Kyleamullaun, Park, Rathsaran Glebe

Placenames

Eglish 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.