# Gowlaun, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoon, barony of Burren, Co. Clare; in Irish An Gabhlán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 724,565 m² (72.46 ha, 179.04 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,157 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmoon, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilmoon.md - Barony: Burren - Electoral division: Lisdoonvarna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,268 people lived in 302 households in the Lisdoonvarna electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5791 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31342 - Centre: latitude 53.030152, longitude -9.277263 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowlaun, from 956 m² to 235,482 m² (23.55 ha, 58.19 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1461896: 235,482 m² (23.55 ha, 58.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461896.md - Parcel 1500862: 206,558 m² (20.66 ha, 51.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500862.md - Parcel 1502978: 109,905 m² (10.99 ha, 27.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1502978.md - Parcel 1438814: 60,885 m² (6.09 ha, 15.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438814.md - Parcel 1480572: 41,968 m² (4.2 ha, 10.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1480572.md - Parcel 1442061: 20,613 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442061.md - Parcel 1458940: 13,212 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458940.md - Parcel 1487455: 5,098 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1487455.md - Parcel 1487454: 5,081 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1487454.md - Parcel 1512486: 4,157 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512486.md - Parcel 1517668: 4,153 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517668.md - Parcel 1450363: 3,211 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450363.md - Parcel 1453678: 2,991 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453678.md - Parcel 1438322: 2,348 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438322.md - Parcel 1489353: 2,059 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1489353.md - Parcel 1471331: 2,017 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1471331.md - Parcel 1471330: 1,963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1471330.md - Parcel 1436869: 1,900 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436869.md - Parcel 3496851: 956 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3496851.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare; 10 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - R4 Strategic Residential Reserve: Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - C5 Tourism (Tourism and related): Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - O2 Water Bodies (General): Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - G3 Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 6 Nov 2024, Clare County Council 24363: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. on the Grant of Outline Permission (Ref. No. P21/872) to construct a dwelling house and garage along with ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24363/0 - 6 Nov 2024, Clare County Council 24364: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. on the Grant of Outline Permission (Ref. No. P21/870) to construct a dwelling house and garage along with ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24364/0 - 23 Mar 2022, Clare County Council 22251: Conditional. Permission. to extend the existing Dwelling & all other associated site and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22251/0 - 18 Aug 2021, Clare County Council 21870: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage along with ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21870/0 - 18 Aug 2021, Clare County Council 21872: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage along with ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21872/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gowlaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL008-045006: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-045006-. On top of an E-W running ridge in pasture, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This subcircular rath (35.5m N-S; 30.5m E-W) is defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.75m); a vague rise (H <0.1m; Wth 1m) from N to NE suggests the former presence of an earthen bank. A later earth and stone field bank, running NNE-SSW, cuts across the W half of the interior. Grass-covered field walls radiate from the scarp at SE, SSE and SSW. There is an enclosure (CL008-045007-) c. 86m to the NNE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 4 October 2022 - CL008-045007: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-045007-. In undulating pastureland and outcropping limestone, with higher ground to the SE, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This enclosure is defined by a roughly D-shaped steeply scarped earthen platform (31.7m E-W; H 0.55-0.9m) with a straight NW side (L c. 33m) consisting of a modern field wall. The field to the N of this wall has been quarried. Intermittent stretches of limestone drystone revetting (two/three courses high) are visible on the scarp face from SSE-W. The perimeter is overgrown from ENE-E. Two hollows (D 0.5m) are visible in the uneven rocky interior. Limestone slabs and boulders in the base of the larger hollow (7m NE-SW; 2m NW-SE) are suggestive of a possible collapsed souterrain but may be field clearance. There is a cashel (CL008-045008-) c. 68m to the NE, and a rath (CL008-045006-) c. 86m to the SSW. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-045007-_01.jpg View from SW Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 5 October 2022 - CL008-046: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-046----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - CL008-048: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-048----. On a prominent steep hill, now planted with coniferous forest, overlooking an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-) to the N. Hachured and named 'Lissateeaun' on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Labelled as 'Lios an tSidheáin' on Robinson's (1977) map - a name translated as 'Fairy Hill' in the OS Letters (1839) (Comber 1997, 71). This subtriangular rath (36.7m E-W; 27m N-S) is defined by a steep scarp from SW-SE and by a deep round-bottomed fosse (Wth 4-6m) along the S side. The fosse is 7m below the level of the summit of the platform and 2m below the surrounding ground level. The scarp may be largely natural. Westropp (1915, 48) considered the rath to have been 'shaped out of the natural bluff, but raised and rounded so as to form a high flat-topped platform sufficiently imposing as seen from the road bridge to the east.' There is a slight berm c. 10m below the scarp at N, SE and SW, and traces of a possible outer bank at NNE. The interior dips towards the SW. The following images have been uploaded: CL008-048----_01.jpg Aerial view from E CL008-048----_02.jpg View from ENE Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 19 October 2022 - CL008-143: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-143----. On top of a small E-W orientated drumlin in pasture. A circular ringfort (diam. 32m) defined by an earthen scarp. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi orthophotography (MapGenie 2013-2018). A barrow (CL008-137----) lies c. 240m to the NW on top of a larger drumlin ridge. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 29 March 2023 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gowlaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gowlaun, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gowlaun. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/gowlaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/gowlaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/gowlaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gowlaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyinsheen Beg: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyinsheen-beg.md - Knockaunvickteera: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockaunvickteera.md - Lisdoonvarna: https://everytownland.com/clare/lisdoonvarna.md - Rathbaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/rathbaun.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/gowlaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/gowlaun