# Gowil, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lickmolassy, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish Gall. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 487,589 m² (48.76 ha, 120.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,713 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lickmolassy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/lickmolassy.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Kilmalinoge, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21112 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62359 - Centre: latitude 53.108323, longitude -8.217254 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowil, from 414 m² to 169,691 m² (16.97 ha, 41.93 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2060824: 169,691 m² (16.97 ha, 41.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060824.md - Parcel 2060820: 107,373 m² (10.74 ha, 26.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060820.md - Parcel 2060823: 91,528 m² (9.15 ha, 22.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060823.md - Parcel 2060821: 60,636 m² (6.06 ha, 14.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060821.md - Parcel 2060822: 43,938 m² (4.39 ha, 10.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060822.md - Parcel 2060825: 3,671 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060825.md - Parcel 4676557: 2,713 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4676557.md - Parcel 5726018: 2,270 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5726018.md - Parcel 2646224: 1,395 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2646224.md - Parcel 4625752: 1,364 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4625752.md - Parcel 4625784: 749 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4625784.md - Parcel 2646221: 594 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2646221.md - Parcel 5726036: 414 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5726036.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 25 Jan 2023, Galway County Council 2322: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2322/0 - 16 Jun 2021, Galway County Council 211064: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211064/0 - 5 Nov 2020, Galway County Council 201642: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201642/0 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 Gowil. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA118-050: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA118-050----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA127-010----. 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. 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) - Oakley Park, house, 1750–1770, Regional interest, registry number 30412701, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30412701. 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. ## 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 Gowil, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1352, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1352.zip (ZIP). - 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/galway/gowil.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gowil.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gowil.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gowil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Fairyhill: https://everytownland.com/galway/fairyhill.md - Gortaha: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortaha.md - Gortawullaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortawullaun-62248.md - Gortnacloghy: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnacloghy.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/galway/gowil - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gowil