Emlaghfad

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emlaghfad, from 1,784 m² to 149,751 m² (14.98 ha, 37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Emlaghfad 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 Emlaghfad.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-144001 Church
  Description

  On the flat summit of a hill, within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure and in the centre of Emlaghfad graveyard (SL033-144002-). The roofless ruin of a rectangular church (int. dims. 21.3m E-W; 6.2m N-S) with a square 3-storey tower (int. L 3.8m) at its W end. Though the style of the windows and doorways throughout the structure is uniformly 18th century and dates to the use of the building as a C of I parish church (SL033-144006-), the side-walls are noticeably thinner (by c. 0.2m) at its W end (L c. 6m). This suggests that the core of the E end may be that of the medieval parish church though no architectural features of that period are evident. The church is entered through a doorway in the W wall of the tower. This has a limestone door-surround with block-and-start jambs and a prominent keystone. The ground and second floors of the tower and the body of the church are lit by windows with surrounds in the style of the entrance doorway (all are blocked up). The first floor of the tower has oculus windows. The W end of the church interior is overgrown with elder trees and a mature evergreen tree fills its E end. The latter area contains a number of 19th-century headstones and one rectangular slab, lying on the ground, with a date of 1709. Floor timbers are missing from the tower, whose external walls are covered with ivy. There are pyramid pinnacles on the top of its corners. By the 1830s a new C of I parish church for Emlaghfad had been built in Ballymote (McTernan 1995; 1997; M. B. Timoney 1996), 1.2km to the NNW. A stretch of the road known as Bothar an Corann (SL033-145----) is c. 0.5km to the N. 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

• SL033-144002 Graveyard
  Description

  Within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (SL034-144005-). A trapezoidal graveyard (c. 50m E-W; c. 60m N-S at W end; c. 40m N-S at E end) enclosed by a stone wall. The entrance, with plain stone pillars and a wrought iron gate, is at the W end of the S wall and there is a similar entrance at the W end of the N wall. At the centre is the ruin of the C of I parish church of Emlaghfad which probably incorporates the core of the medieval parish church (SL033-144001-). An area immediately S of the church contains a collection of 18th- and 19th-century chest-tombs and elaborate headstones belonging to a number of prominent Protestant families from the area (McTernan 1995; 1997). The earliest headstone noted was dated 1709 and lies within the church. A bullaun stone (SL033-144007-) was recently found within the interior of the graveyard. To the E, S and W are the remains of a bastioned fort (SL033-144008-). 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

• SL033-144003 Hospital
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) as 'Hospital' and 'Hospital, site' respectively. J.C. MacDonagh records in his 'History of Ballymote and the Parish of Emlaghfad' (Dublin, 1936, 192) that 'attached to it was one of the hospitals, founded by St. Attracta, the patroness of the diocese of Achonry.' This 'hospital' is not listed in 'Medieval Religious Houses. Ireland' by Gwynn & Hadcock (1970). Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL033-144005 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  A monastery at Emlaghfad was founded by St Colmcille in the 6th century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 383). According to M. A. Timoney (1995a, 34), 'traces of an enclosure' can be seen in Emlaghfad graveyard (SL033-144002-) to the SE and S of the ruins of the C of I church, 'where there is a change in the ground level, the area around [the church] is higher'. 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

• SL033-144006 Church
  Description

  In Emlaghfad graveyard (SL033-144002-). A C of I church built on or near the site of the medieval parish church of Emlaghfad and the site of a monastery founded by St Colmcille (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 383). This is a rectangular church (int.: 21.3m E-W; 6.2m N-S) with a square three-storey tower (int. L 3.8m) at its W end. It is entered through a doorway in the W wall of the tower. This has a limestone door-surround with block-and-start jambs and a prominent keystone. The ground and second floors of the tower and the body of the church are lit by windows with surrounds in the style of the entrance door (all are now blocked up). The first floor of the tower has occulus windows. The W end of the church interior is overgrown with elder trees and a mature tree shelters its E end. The latter area contains a number of 19th-century headstones and one rectangular slab, lying on the ground, with a date of 1709. Floor timbers are missing from the tower; the exterior walls are covered with ivy and there are pyramid pinnacles on the top corners. The style of the church is mid-18th-century; it was replaced in 1818 by a new church in Ballymote (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 599) 1.2km to NNW. A stretch of the road known as Bothar an Corann (SL033-145----) is c. 0.5km to the N. This is post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 04 January 2012

• SL033-144007 Bullaun stone
  Description

  In Emlaghfad graveyard (SL033-144002-). A red sandstone boulder, with a shallow depression (diam. c. 0.4m; D 0.07m) cut into its upper surface, was uncovered along the S edge of the graveyard during a graveyard clean-up (M. B. Timoney 1995a, 34). 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

• SL033-144008 Bastioned fort
  Description

  In pasture, on the flat summit of a hill with excellent views of the surrounding countryside. An earthen platform (73m N-S; 90m E-W) defined by a scarp (max. H 0.65-0.8m), eroded in places and with a low internal lip (Wth 1.6-1.8m; H 0.2m), is evident outside the E, S and W sides of the graveyard (SL033-144002-) at Emlaghfad. The expanded and slightly rounded corners of this platform project 15-18m beyond the corners of the graveyard. Midway along each of its three sides, the platform is indented to within 8-9m of the graveyard wall. A N-S road, immediately outside the W wall of the graveyard, cuts through the W side of the platform, bordering the NW projecting corner as well as truncating the SW projecting corner. The SE corner remains intact while the NE corner is incorporated into a field boundary. A disused 19th-century house overlies the W end of the S side of the earthwork. There are no visible remains of the earthwork on the N side of the graveyard. Many mature trees and bushes grow on the platform. While the function of this earthwork remains uncertain, its star-shaped ground plan is suggestive of a bastioned fort. 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 Emlaghfad.

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 Emlaghfad, 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 high, moderately low, low.

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

Name

Emlaghfad · Imleach Fhada

Area

658,277 m² (65.83 ha, 162.66 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

Ardree, Corhober, Emlagh, Mullaghcor, Tieveboy

Placenames

Emlaghfad 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.