Emlymoran
Townland in the civil parish of Castleconor, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Imleach Uí Mhóráin
- Area
- 233.4 ha
- 577 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 12,518 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Emlymoran, from 221 m² to 201,088 m² (20.11 ha, 49.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Emlymoran 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
12 Dec 2025Conditional
construction of a silage slab, machinery shed, manure pit, slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560523
19 Jul 2025Conditional
to construct (i) Milking parlour building incorporating dairy, plant, storage, milk tank, meal Bin, rain water storage tank, holding yard with crush/ drafting yard, underground effluent tank with flow channel (ii) Cubicle shed with slatted tanks (iii) Walled Silage pit and all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560299
26 Sept 2023Conditional
to retain and complete existing dwelling house, to relocate existing entrance and to install effluent treatment system and percolation area, together with the carrying out of all associated ancillary site works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2360257
28 Sept 2022Refused
development consisting of (1) retention for existing fill material on site (area = 0.3HA, Volume = 1530m3), existing hardstand parking area and existing portacabin office (2) remove existing silo, walls and existing concrete batching area including associated loading areas (3) installation of entrance gate, boundary treatments, designated parking areas with petrol interceptor and the carrying out of all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22320
22 Dec 2021Refused
development consisting of (1) retention of exisiting fill material on site (Area = 0.3HA, Volume = 1530m3) existing hardstand area, existing sile, existing portcabin office, existing storage walls and existing concrete batching area including associated loading areas: (2) permission for proposed further filling of lands with inert soils and stones (Area = 0.88HA, Volume = 15500m3), proposed installation of entrance gates, wheel wash, boundary treatments, parking area with petrol interceptor and the carrying out of all associated ancillary site works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 21513
21 Feb 2018Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house, on-site waste water treatment system together with ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1842
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 Emlymoran.
Recorded monuments
- SL022-019 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a low rise in undulating pasture. Shown on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). This possible rath has been levelled but a slightly raised roughly circular area (diam. 25-30m) is still evident. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Emlymoran.
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 Emlymoran.
- 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 Emlymoran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Emlymoran · Imleach Uí Mhóráin
- Area
- 2,333,681 m² (233.37 ha, 576.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleconor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Castleconor West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleconor West electoral division: 1,095 people in 379 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carha (Co. Mayo), Corbally, Farranimrish, Fiddaun, Knockbrack, Muingwore, Rathglass
- Placenames
- Emlymoran 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.