Emmel

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emmel, from 472 m² to 574,268 m² (57.43 ha, 141.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Emmel 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.

• 24 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SITE ENTRANCE AND BOUNDARY WALLS, ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. THIS APPLICATION RELATES TO THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22140

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 Emmel.

Recorded monuments

• OF044-012001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on flat land in upland area. Five storey high rectangular Tower house with circular tower at NE angle and diagonally opposing bartizans on NW and SE angles at wall-walk level. A large late 17th/early 18th-century gable ended house (OF044-012002-) with two storeys over a basement with protruding gable ended chimney stacks is built onto the E facade of the tower (Bence-Jones 1978, 119). This house covers the original entrance which was protected by a machicoulis directly above at wall-walk level. The crenellated battlements at wall-walk level are constructed from brick and are 19th-century reconstructions. Also inserted in the 19th-century are the large flat headed windows with hood mouldings. The original garderobe chute can be seen at the base of the N wall directly above the oversailing which is carried on corbels from second storey up to wall walk level. This oversailing carries the garderobes and mural passages. Other features visible are a large rectangular chimney stack on the N wall at wall-walk level and an original single light flat headed window with finely punch dressed jambs at ground floor on the S wall. There was no access to interior at time of visit and no other features visible. Probable late medieval tower. 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

• OF044-012002 House - 17th century
  Description

  Late 17th/early 18th-century gable ended house built onto the front of Emmel Castle (OF044-012001-). The house has a five bay two storey facade over a basement with projecting gable ended chimney stacks indicative of a late 17th-century date. (Garner 1985, 23) 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

• Emmel Castle, country house, 1680–1720 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan five-bay two-storey over basement county house, built c.1700, abutting renovated five-storey rectangular-plan tower house to west. House having pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and roughcast rendered chimneystacks with yellow terracotta pots. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows to façade with stucco surrounds. Round-headed timber sash window to south elevation of return. Gothic style timber fanlight to blocked up door opening on northern elevation of return with intersecting glazing bars. Square-headed door opening to façade having pilastered stucco surround, timber panelled door with stained glass panes door and spoked fanlight. Triangular-headed door opening to south gable of house with round-headed metal door. Rectangular-plan tower house with circular stair turret at its north-east angle. Pitched slate roof with castellated parapet and bartizans to south-east and north-west corners and stone chimneystack over north and elevations. Roughcast rendered walls with loop openings and corbels to north elevation carrying oversailing garderobes and mural passages. Machicoulations to east formerly defended entrance, now masked by house. Castellated porch to west of tower-house. Square-headed window openings inserted to tower house. Yard to west with ranges of stone outbuildings to west having pitched slate roofs. Yard accessed from north through wrought-iron gates. Wall to south of tower. Stone and brick outbuilding to south half-hipped slate roof and external stairs with date plaque reading ‘JTS 1883’. Adjacent stone wall with round-headed opening with tooled stone surround and wrought-iron gate, accessing yard, surmounted by bellcote. Walled garden to south west of house. Ashlar gate piers with carved caps and sweeping walls to road.

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 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 Emmel.

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 Emmel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Emmel · Imeall

Area

1,565,568 m² (156.56 ha, 386.86 acres)

Civil parish

Templeharry, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Templeharry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templeharry electoral division: 215 people in 86 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brownstown, Emmel East, Emmel West, Knockaspur, Kylenaheskeragh (Co. Tipperary), Rathenny

Placenames

Emmel 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.