Emlagh
Townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 186 ha
- 460 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 9,380 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emlagh, from 761 m² to 209,982 m² (21 ha, 51.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission to construct agricultural shed with underground slatted tank, together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460156
3 Nov 2020Conditional
to: 1) retain alterations to site layout previously granted under PD/99/1067 to include as constructed position of the house and 2nd driveway / entrance ; 2) retain as constructed domestic garage and all ancillary site works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20454
22 Oct 2020N/a
to retain the following; 1) retain alterations to site layout previously granted under PD/99/1067 to include as constructed position of the house and 2nd driveway / entrance 2) retain as constructed domestic garage and all ancillary site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20443
31 May 2018N/a
Planning Permission for the construction of a new forest road entrance and associated site works for the purposes of harvesting a plantation at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18264
1 Feb 2018Conditional
for the construction of a new forest road entrance and associated site works for the purposes of harvesting a plantation at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1833
1 Feb 2018Conditional
for the construction of a new forest road entrance and associated site works for the purposes of harvesting a plantation at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1834
19 Dec 2017N/a
for the construction of 2 no. new forest road entrances and associated site works for the purpose of harvesting a plantation at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17506
23 May 2017Conditional
to construct new dwelling house and domestic garage with proprietary treatment system & percolation area and carry out all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17230
12 May 2017N/a
to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage with proprietary treatment system & percolation area and carry out all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17215
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Emlagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Emlagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Emlagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Emlagh
- Area
- 1,859,604 m² (185.96 ha, 459.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baslick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Castleteheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleteheen electoral division: 324 people in 131 households; 96% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowbaun, Castleteheen, Knockalaghta (Sandford), Knockalegan East, Milltown, Rahardagh, Rusheen
- 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.