Gowlin

101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowlin, from 206 m² to 309,292 m² (30.93 ha, 76.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gowlin 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.

• 14 May 2019Conditional

  to erect pole, cameras and signage for the purposes of a community based CCTV system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19192

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  the restoration and extension to the rear of an existing farm house, along with the installation of a new sewage treatment system, percolation area and all associated site and landscaping works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18297

• 10 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a two-storey dwelling house, a detached single-storey garage, a new entranceway, with the provision of a new on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with tree planting, general landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18269

• 4 Jul 2018N/a

  the restoration and extension to the rear of an existing farm house, onsite waster water treatment system and all associated site and landscaping site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 18258

• 20 Jun 2018N/a

  to construct a two-storey dwelling house, a detached single-storey garage, a new entranceway , with the provision of a new on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with tree planting, general landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 18239

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackstairs Mountains SAC 000770
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackstairs Mountains 000770

Recorded monuments

• CW024-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Approximately circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined at S by low defaced bank (int. H 1m, ext. H 0.2m; Wth c. 2.5m). Traces of stone facing visible may be modern. Laneway defines remainder of monument.

• CW024-024001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (diam. c. 29m) surrounded by earthen bank. Several gaps, one of which (at NE) may incorporate former entrance. No visible traces of fosse. Interior uneven. Abutting ringfort bank immediately E of entrance is a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 4.5m) defined by low bank.

• CW024-024002 Hut site
  Description

  In ringfort (CW024-024001-). A sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 4.5m) defined by low bank, which abutts ringfort bank immediately E of its entrance. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW025-009 Structure
  Description

  On a slight natural terrace, on an otherwise very steep NW-facing slope of Blackstairs Mountain, in coniferous forestry. There are extensive views SW-W-N overlooking the plain of the River Barrow. An irregular stone structure (int. dims. 1.45m NE-SW; 2.25m max. surviving NE-SW; ext. dims. 2.2m NE-SW; 3.2m max. surviving NE-SW) composed of dry-stone walling (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.4m; wall T 0.5-0.9m) which survives two courses high. The N half of the structure appears to have been truncated, probably by tree planting activity, and there is a large conifer growing in the NW sector and another medium-sized conifer in the interior in the NE sector. A platform (CW025-010----), possibly for charcoal making, is located c. 35m uphill to the SE. See attached photographs: CW025-009----_01 From SW with ranging-rod in interior CW025-009----_02 From SE with ranging-rod in interior CW025-009----_03 From NE with ranging-rod in interior Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 May 2022

• CW025-010 Charcoal-making site
  Description

  On a very steep NW-facing slope of Blackstairs Mountain, in coniferous forestry. There are extensive views SW-W-N overlooking the plain of the River Barrow. A charcoal-making platform, suitable for a mound kiln, identified by Michael Monahan and Edward Butler. It is similar to charcoal-making platforms (CW023-035---- to CW023-039----; CW023-041---- and CW023-042----) on the SW-facing slope of Knockroe hill, part of the Blackstairs mountain range, c. 6km to the NE. It consists of a roughly oval level platform (dims. 7.9m NE-SW; 6.8m NW-SE). The rear SE portion of the platform is cut into the natural slope (H 1.05m) and has been revetted with stones and boulders. The NW edge (H 1m) is defined by scarp with a revetment of two stone courses, which in turn appears to rests on a slightly wider revetted platform (H 0.35m; Wth 0.7m), though this may just be caused by collaspsed revetment. The NE edge is defined by a slight scarp with some boulders evident but the SW edge is not very clearly defined and was probably damaged by the tree plantation. See attached photographs: CW025-010----_01 From E with ranging-rod in interior CW025-010----_02 Front NW scarp in foreground, looking at rear SE scarp Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 May 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Gowlin.

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.

No address of the register names Gowlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Gowlin · An Ghualainn

Area

2,356,454 m² (235.65 ha, 582.29 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mullins, and its townlands

Barony

St. Mullin's Lower

Electoral division

Ballymurphy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymurphy electoral division: 282 people in 95 households; 89% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg Big, Ballyglisheen, Bantry Commons (Co. Wexford), Mullannavode, Newtown

Placenames

Gowlin 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.