# Emlagh, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Louth, barony of Louth, Co. Louth; in Irish An tImleach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 270,977 m² (27.1 ha, 66.96 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,341 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/louth.md - Barony: Louth - Electoral division: Louth, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,635 people lived in 574 households in the Louth electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33885 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140268 - Centre: latitude 53.958407, longitude -6.534955 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emlagh, from 111 m² to 63,420 m² (6.34 ha, 15.67 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1093176: 63,420 m² (6.34 ha, 15.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093176.md - Parcel 1123921: 57,071 m² (5.71 ha, 14.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123921.md - Parcel 1094574: 37,002 m² (3.7 ha, 9.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094574.md - Parcel 1093980: 36,858 m² (3.69 ha, 9.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093980.md - Parcel 1124311: 32,189 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1124311.md - Parcel 1123922: 12,612 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123922.md - Parcel 1123923: 9,822 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123923.md - Parcel 5644471: 6,186 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5644471.md - Parcel 1126314: 3,395 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126314.md - Parcel 2479533: 3,287 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2479533.md - Parcel 1114095: 2,436 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1114095.md - Parcel 5255329: 2,099 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5255329.md - Parcel 1124621: 1,915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1124621.md - Parcel 1093978: 1,323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093978.md - Parcel 3839754: 480 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3839754.md - Parcel 5787429: 450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5787429.md - Parcel 5644412: 308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5644412.md - Parcel 5644411: 111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5644411.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Emlagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 20 Jan 2026, Louth County Council 2660019: Conditional. Outline permission, 2 homes. Outline Permission for a storey and a half dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system with percolation area, soakaways, new vehicular entrance with all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information Received on 19/05/2026*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660019/0 - 19 Sept 2019, Louth County Council 19764: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. Permission for the demolition of existing dormer bungalow with attic conversion and associated detached garage on site and for the construction of a replacement part single storey and part two storey dwelling and detached garage within the original site boundaries, landscaping and all associated site works. There will be no change to the position of the existing vehicular entrance.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19764/0 - 6 Mar 2018, Louth County Council 18163: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION for extensions and modifications to existing dwelling house along with all associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18163/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Emlagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Emlagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Emlagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Emlagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Emlagh. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/louth/emlagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/emlagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/emlagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Emlagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyoran: https://everytownland.com/louth/ballyoran.md - Coolcreedan: https://everytownland.com/louth/coolcreedan.md - Mullavally: https://everytownland.com/louth/mullavally.md - Richard Taaffes Holding: https://everytownland.com/louth/richard-taaffes-holding.md - Tullycahan: https://everytownland.com/louth/tullycahan.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/louth/emlagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/emlagh