# Emmel, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Templeharry, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Imeall.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,565,568 m² (156.56 ha, 386.86 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,287 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application 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): 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.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41913
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180638
- Centre: latitude 52.908565, longitude -8.029115 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emmel, from 472 m² to 574,268 m² (57.43 ha, 141.9 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 314569: 574,268 m² (57.43 ha, 141.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314569.md
- Parcel 306316: 145,721 m² (14.57 ha, 36.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306316.md
- Parcel 270430: 128,722 m² (12.87 ha, 31.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270430.md
- Parcel 271173: 118,236 m² (11.82 ha, 29.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271173.md
- Parcel 305173: 117,266 m² (11.73 ha, 28.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305173.md
- Parcel 272307: 84,530 m² (8.45 ha, 20.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272307.md
- Parcel 311718: 72,034 m² (7.2 ha, 17.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311718.md
- Parcel 308851: 70,558 m² (7.06 ha, 17.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308851.md
- Parcel 298678: 56,314 m² (5.63 ha, 13.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298678.md
- Parcel 300476: 37,707 m² (3.77 ha, 9.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300476.md
- Parcel 286349: 31,444 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286349.md
- Parcel 283656: 21,794 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283656.md
- Parcel 283593: 12,118 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283593.md
- Parcel 302068: 11,491 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302068.md
- Parcel 282090: 7,287 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282090.md
- Parcel 308581: 6,276 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308581.md
- Parcel 4638998: 5,461 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638998.md
- Parcel 295233: 5,081 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295233.md
- Parcel 277826: 4,926 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277826.md
- Parcel 290514: 4,761 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290514.md
- Parcel 274994: 4,723 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274994.md
- Parcel 293060: 4,314 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293060.md
- Parcel 311195: 4,201 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311195.md
- Parcel 296714: 3,857 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296714.md
- Parcel 307428: 3,720 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307428.md
- Parcel 5925780: 2,858 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5925780.md
- Parcel 289587: 1,313 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/289587.md
- Parcel 4711345: 1,256 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4711345.md
- Parcel 4639004: 472 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4639004.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 24 Mar 2022, Offaly County Council 22140: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22140/0

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## 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.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF044-012001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF044-012001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF044-012002-. 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

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)

- Emmel Castle, country house, 1680–1720, Regional interest, registry number 14944013, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14944013. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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, 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.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Emmel 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)

- Brownstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/brownstown.md
- Emmel East: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel-east.md
- Emmel West: https://everytownland.com/offaly/emmel-west.md
- Knockaspur: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockaspur.md
- Kylenaheskeragh (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/kylenaheskeragh.md
- Rathenny: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathenny.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.

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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.

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