# Emmel West, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templeharry, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Imeall Thiar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,254,038 m² (125.4 ha, 309.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 56,739 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templeharry, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/templeharry.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Templeharry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41915 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180640 - Centre: latitude 52.916656, longitude -8.031264 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 270596: 395,418 m² (39.54 ha, 97.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270596.md - Parcel 300688: 211,480 m² (21.15 ha, 52.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300688.md - Parcel 270593: 147,795 m² (14.78 ha, 36.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270593.md - Parcel 282421: 84,739 m² (8.47 ha, 20.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282421.md - Parcel 308848: 79,272 m² (7.93 ha, 19.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308848.md - Parcel 301646: 75,539 m² (7.55 ha, 18.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301646.md - Parcel 270595: 58,875 m² (5.89 ha, 14.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270595.md - Parcel 295229: 56,739 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295229.md - Parcel 360324: 47,052 m² (4.71 ha, 11.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360324.md - Parcel 307416: 37,767 m² (3.78 ha, 9.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307416.md - Parcel 307956: 23,915 m² (2.39 ha, 5.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307956.md - Parcel 270594: 17,084 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270594.md - Parcel 303161: 7,674 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303161.md - Parcel 301645: 6,937 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301645.md - Parcel 3790024: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3790024.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 12 Mar 2026, Offaly County Council 2660118: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660118/0 - 12 Apr 2021, Offaly County Council 21202: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, WASTE WATER SYSTEM, ENTRANCE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21202/0 - 6 Nov 2020, Offaly County Council 20545: Refused. Outline permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20545/0 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 Emmel West. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF044-007: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF044-007----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF044-008----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Emmel West. ## 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 Emmel West, 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 low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Emmel West. - 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/offaly/emmel-west.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel-west.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel-west.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bantis (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/bantis.md - Brickanagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brickanagh.md - Emmel: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel.md - Emmel East: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel-east.md - Gorraun: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorraun-180723.md - Kylenaheskeragh (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/kylenaheskeragh.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/offaly/emmel-west - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/emmel-west