Emlagh
Emlagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgeever, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Imleach.
- Area
- 151.5 ha
- 374 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 20,145 m² (2.01 ha, 4.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emlagh, from 884 m² to 211,731 m² (21.17 ha, 52.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Feb 2021Conditional
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE COMPRISING; EXTENSION TO LIVING ROOM TO FRONT/SOUTH SIDE, ENTRANCE PORCH EXTENSION TO EAST SIDE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21128
5 Dec 2019Conditional
Construct an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and for all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19954
18 Jun 2019Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED UNDER P06/3115
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19468
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Cahasy, Lough Baun and Roonah Lough SAC 001529
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Cahasy, Lough Baun And Roonah Lough 001529
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Emlagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Emlagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Emlagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Emlagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
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. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Emlagh · Imleach
- Area
- 1,514,931 m² (151.49 ha, 374.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgeever, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Emlagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 331 people lived in 130 households in the Emlagh electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 40% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghany, Askillaun, Dooghmakeon
- Placenames
- Emlagh 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.