Eglish

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eglish, from 180 m² to 477,011 m² (47.7 ha, 117.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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.

• 20 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21651

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

• OF030-010 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on top of high ground with good views of undulating countryside. Poorly preserved circular area (approx. diam 40m E-W) defined by a scarp (ext. H 0.5m) with wide shallow fosse (Wth 2.5m) and slight external bank (Wth 2.5m) both of which are visible at S only. There is no evidence of any entrance feature. Field fence intercepts site at N with no evidence of any enclosing element from NE through E to SE. Depicted on 1840 edition of OS 6-inch map as large circular enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF030-015 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise on the floodplains of the river located to the S of the site and site of medieval church (OF030-016----) to SE. Poorly preserved tower house constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with only portions of its N and W walls remaining with a later 18th century house attached to its N wall. The tower house is almost square in plan (ext. dims. 10.4m N-S; 9.9m E-W; wall T 1.9m) with slight base batter evident and stands two storeys high with original entrance probably located in the E wall. From a rebuilt door in the W end of the N wall at ground floor a mural stairs was accessed running upwards from W to E which gave access to the first floor now destroyed in the NE angle. Evidence of a wall walk support on the N wall above first floor. Mural passage in the W wall and possible guard room were also accessed from the rebuilt door in the W end of the N wall. First floor guardroom with musket loop directly above guard room in the NW angle at ground floor level. Running S from the SW angle and returning E the bawn wall is largely intact with several outhouses attached to the bawn (OF030-015001-). Evidence of cobblestone paving in the SW corner of the courtyard. The arrangement of medieval church (OF030-016----) and tower house with later 18th-century house displays an interesting continuity in settlement and architecture similar to Garrycastle (OF029-006001-). (Cooke 1875, 25-6; O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 2-6) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF030-015001 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise on the floodplains of the river located to the S of the site and site of medieval church (OF030-016----) to SE. Poorly preserved tower house (OF030-015----) constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with only portions of its N and W walls remaining with a later 18th century house attached to its N wall. Running S from the SW angle of the tower house and returning E the bawn wall is largely intact with several outhouses attached to the bawn. Evidence of cobblestone paving in the SW corner of the courtyard. The arrangement of medieval church (OF030-016----) and tower house with later 18th-century house displays an interesting continuity in settlement and architecture similar to Garrycastle (OF029-006001-). (Cooke 1875, 25-6; O' Flanagan 1933, vol.2, 2-6; Loeber 1988 vol. 3, 18) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF030-016 Church
  Description

  Present remains consist of a 19th century Protestant church and modern graveyard which probably dates to the 1700s. Nothing remains of the earlier church which was located in the present graveyard (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 6). Small building in the centre of the graveyard (OF030-016001-) that is indicated on the OS 6-inch map as a 'church in ruins' and is now used as a 19th century burial structure, may have been the site of an earlier church. Located to the NW of the C of I church are the ruins of Eglish castle (OF030-015----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF030-016001 Graveyard
  Description

  Present remains consist of a 19th century C of I church and modern graveyard which probably dates to the 1700s. Nothing remains of the earlier church (OF030-016----) which was located in the present graveyard (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 6). Small building in the centre of the graveyard that is indicated on the OS 6-inch map as a 'church in ruins' and is now used as a 19th century burial structure, may have been the site of an earlier church. Located to the NW of the C of I church are the ruins of Eglish castle (OF030-015----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF030-017 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A slight depression just beside a small stream probably indicates the location of the destroyed well. (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 7) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF030-023 Mass-rock
  Description

  Mass-rock in the townland of Ballycollin that is listed in the report 'Offaly Heritage at Risk' (Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society 1978, 61). Situated in a large natural hollow close to Tobernapearla Holy Wells (OF030-017----). The rock itself lies near the top of the NW slope of the hollow. The stone (L 1.5m ; Wth 2m; H 2.5m) is mostly buried. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Eglish Castle, country house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan seven-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1770, with remains of castle abutting east side, with pediment and oculus window covered by growing ivy. Now in a ruinous state. Hipped slate roof with tooled stone eaves course and red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Venetian window to rear. Round-headed door opening with timber fanlight having switch-track glazing bars and timber panelled door flanked by timber sash sidelights with tooled stone sills. Door accessed by tooled stone steps flanked by splayed rendered plinth wall with tooled stone capping.

• Eglish Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell Church of Ireland church with four-bays to nave, built in 1839, situated within a graveyard. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and stone coping to gable ends with cut stone bellcote to south. Random coursed squared limestone walls with cut stone plinth and quoins. Lancet window openings with lattice windows and tooled stone surrounds. Windows to nave surmount air vents with tooled stone surround. Pointed-arched window opening to north elevation with stone tracery and diamond pane window. Pointed-arched door opening with tooled limestone surround, limestone threshold and timber battened double doors accessed by stone steps. Church situated within earlier graveyard with mausolea, varied gravemarkers and yew trees. Site is bounded by a random coursed stone wall and accessed through tooled limestone octagonal profile gate piers with wrought-iron gates.

• Eglish Cottage, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, built c.1830, with return and extensions to rear and farm buildings to rear site. Situated within its own grounds. Hipped tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth to roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered quoins to façade. Wyatt windows to façade with moulded rendered surround and stone sills. Timber sash windows with stone sills to all other elevations. Segmental-headed central door opening with rendered surround, timber panelled door flanked by sidelights and surmounted by spoked timber fanlight. Door accessed by limestone steps flanked by cast-iron railings. Roughcast rendered outbuilding to rear site with corrugated iron roof.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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. Offaly.

Name

Eglish · An Eaglais

Area

2,955,623 m² (295.56 ha, 730.35 acres)

Civil parish

Eglish, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Eglish, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Eglish electoral division: 153 people in 57 households; 85% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycollin, Ballynaguilsha, Boolinarig Big, Cush, Galros East, Mounthenry, Shanacloon, Springfield

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.