Gowil

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowil, from 414 m² to 169,691 m² (16.97 ha, 41.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gowil 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.

• 25 Jan 2023Refused

  to construct a new overflow truck parking, storage shed and yard, entrance and access road and associated works (to be used in conjunction with their existing premises at St Brendans Road, Portumna). Gross floor space of proposed works: 600sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2322

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works at Gowil, Portumna, Co. Galway. Gross floor space of proposed works: 275sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211064

• 5 Nov 2020Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 275 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201642

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 Gowil.

Recorded monuments

• GA118-050 Standing stone
  Description

  In gently rolling pastureland. Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and named 'Gallán' in Gothic script on the 1946 edition. No visible surface trace survives; possibly removed during field clearance. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 December 2019

• GA127-010 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

• Oakley Park, house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over raised basement house, built c.1760, having shallow entrance breakfront with doorway reached by flight of steps, and single-bay side elevations, two-bay to basement. Hipped slate roof with centrally located pair of rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, having cut limestone plinth string course to base of ground floor. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows with limestone sills. Carved limestone doorcase comprising square-headed doorway and sidelights with fluted lintels, limestone sills and decorative wrought-iron bars to sidelights, panelled timber door, and cobweb fanlight and carved archivolt with triple keystone above doorway. Doorway approached by flight of splaying limestone steps having rendered and limestone parapets and terminating piers. Single-storey outbuildings to rear of house, enclosing yard. House approached by tree-lined avenue. Quadrant gateway to road comprising rubble limestone walls having cut-stone copings, flanking tooled stone piers with plinths and caps and supporting decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gate.

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 Gowil, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1352 (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 Gowil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gowil · Gall

Area

487,589 m² (48.76 ha, 120.49 acres)

Civil parish

Lickmolassy, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kilmalinoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

221 people lived in 86 households in the Kilmalinoge electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fairyhill, Gortaha, Gortawullaun, Gortnacloghy

Placenames

Gowil 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.