Emmel West

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emmel West, from 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 395,418 m² (39.54 ha, 97.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Emmel West 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.

• 12 Mar 2026Conditional

  a new single storey dwelling house, detached storage shed for vintage cars, vintage tractors & general domestic storage, waste water treatment system, soil polishing filter / percolation area and vehicular entrance into the site from the public road; all completed with associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660118

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, WASTE WATER SYSTEM, ENTRANCE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21202

• 6 Nov 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTE WATER SYSTEM, ENTRANCE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND TO DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS ONSITE

  Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 20545

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 West.

Recorded monuments

• OF044-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential possible enclosure identified from aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI R 91/90). Of doubtful antiquity, possibly associated with drainage features of post-1700 AD date. 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

• OF044-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat land in upland area. E side of site is destroyed by modern field fence. Semicircular raised area (diam 35m N-S) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) with no evidence of an external fosse or entrance feature. Depicted as semicircular enclosure on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Emmel West.

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

At the centre of the townland of Emmel West, about 1 in 10 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Emmel West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Emmel West · Imeall Thiar

Area

1,254,038 m² (125.4 ha, 309.88 acres)

Civil parish

Templeharry, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Templeharry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Bantis (Co. Tipperary), Brickanagh, Emmel, Emmel East, Gorraun, Kylenaheskeragh (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Emmel West 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.