Emlagh

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emlagh, from 215 m² to 78,482 m² (7.85 ha, 19.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Emlagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Emlagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Emlagh.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In damp pasture, on the top of a drumlin. A slightly raised oval area (int. diam. 23m N-S; 30.2m E-W) enclosed by an almost levelled earthen bank (Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.75m) except along the W arc where a scarp (H 0.9m) is evident. An external waterlogged fosse (Wth 4.9m; D 0.5m) is visible all round but shallow along the W arc. A possible entrance (Wth 4m) is at E. The interior is level. A second fosse is visible NNW-E as a cropmark in an aerial photograph (OSAP, 3 0823). Indicated as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as a circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL039-157 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope bordering an expanse of flat wet pasture covered with rushes. A low compact roughly circular mound (8m N-S; 7.3m E-W; H 0.7m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Emlagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1074 (ZIP).

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 Emlagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Emlagh · Imleach

Area

435,135 m² (43.51 ha, 107.52 acres)

Civil parish

Emlaghfad, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Drumrat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 203 households in the Drumrat electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyville or Ardlaherty, Ardree, Carrowmaclenany, Emlaghfad, Kingsfort, Knockgrania, Mullaghcor

Placenames

Emlagh 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.