Emo Court (country house) · Photo: AnTuisealGinideach · CC BY-SA 4.0Nothing in Emo is on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Emo has kept more old homes than most towns: 9.8% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. Homes from 2011 on make up 8.7% of Emo’s, against 5.8% in the typical town.
Heritage near Emo
The nearest towns with buildings of national importance, within 25 km.
| Town | Distance | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portarlington | 7.3 km | 68 | 1 | 14 |
| Portlaoise | 8.2 km | 185 | 6 | 17 |
| Monasterevin | 12 km | 104 | 5 | 6 |
| Ballyroan | 17 km | 6 | 2 | 6 |
| Athy | 19 km | 178 | 5 | 26 |
| Killeigh | 21 km | 11 | 1 | 18 |
Most of Emo’s homes went up from 1946 to 1980: 34%
Emo built little in the 2000s: 19% of its homes, where most towns have 25%. 6.5% of Emo’s homes date between the wars, well above the typical 3.9%. Take 2001 as the dividing line: more of Emo’s homes stand on the older side.
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Emo in brief
More of Emo’s homes are old than in most places: 9.8% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. Emo has nothing on the list; Portarlington, 7.3 km away, is the nearest place with places of national importance.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).