Gowla

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowla, from 35 m² to 11,447,159 m² (1,144.72 ha, 2,828.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Gowla 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.

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  for the construction of new domestic garage and removal of enurement clause. Gross floor space of proposed works: 45 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360248

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  for retention of existing dwelling house.Gross floor space of work to be retained in 204.90sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260741

• 20 Oct 2017Conditional

  permission for a dwelling house, shed and private wastewater treatment system as constructed with the removal of the lifetime enurement clause. Gross floor space of work to be retained 126.0sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171520

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA 004181
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gowla.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge spanning Abhainn Ghabhla [Owengowla], built c. 1860. Coursed rock-faced limestone construction with camber arches with voussoirs. Parapets have rounded render copings. Rubble limestone field walls attached to ends of parapets.

• Bunnahown or Gowlamore Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge spanning Abhainn Ghabhla [Owengowla], built c.1820. Recent repairs and extensions to north-west and south-east. Irregularly coursed rubble stone construction with round arch and dressed stone voussoirs with keystone. Parapets have upright stones to copings.

• Gowlabeg Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch stone bridge, built c.1820, spanning Abhainn Ghabhla Beag [Gowlabeg River] and comprising irregular coursed granite rubble with cast-iron tie-plates, round arch with cut-stone voussoirs and gunnelled soffit with pipe addition. Parapet capped by rough rubble coping stones. Rubble stone flanking walls to each end.

• Outbuilding, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c.1860. Pitched thatched roof with stepped rubble stone verges. Painted formerly limewashed drystone rubble granite walls with rubble quoins. Square-headed window opening to rear elevation and square-headed door opening to north, latter with replacement timber battened door. Tarmacadamed area to front of building which stands at roadside.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gowla.

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 Gowla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gowla · Gabhla

Area

12,821,758 m² (1,282.18 ha, 3,168.33 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Owengowla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Owengowla electoral division: 299 people in 117 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagha, Bunnahown, Callancruck, Gowlan East, Lehanagh South, Lettershinna, Loughawee, Shannadonnell

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gowla 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.