Gowlaunlee

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowlaunlee. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Gowlaunlee 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gowlaunlee in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Maumturk Mountains SAC 002008
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumturk Mountains 002008

Recorded monuments

• GA024-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Close to the saddle-point of Mám Tuirc, the northern of the three mountain passes from Joyce Country into Connemara proper. Known locally as Tobar Feichín, it consists of a natural spring, the source of the stream running E into Gleann Glaise. It is covered by a small, but collapsed, stone structure and there is a small cairn beside it to E. Noted by O'Flaherty in 1684 (Hardiman 1846, 121) (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA025-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a natural rise in the Gleann Glaise to E of the Bealnabrack River. Subcircular ringfort (N-S c. 31m), in fair condition, defined by an inner bank of stone, intervening fosse and earthen outer bank. The inner bank is best preserved from N to NE and the outer bank survives from NE to S and from SW to NW. Possible entrance at SW. The interior con­tains a D-shaped earthen enclosure (L 18m; Wth 12m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA025-019 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Just outside SE corner of a large square sheep enclosure on mountainside c. 250m NW of a ringfort (GA025-004----). Known locally as Cillín, it consists of a roughly square area (L/Wth 12m), surrounded by a slight earthen bank. Many small set boulders are visible within it, as well as the foundations of a rectangular stone structure (L c. 2.5m, Wth c. 1.25m) (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gowlaunlee · Gabhlán na Lí

Area

7,014,228 m² (701.42 ha, 1,733.25 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Letterbrickaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Letterbrickaun electoral division: 262 people in 85 households; 67% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnaviskaun, Finnisglin, Illion, Illion West, Knockaunbaun, Lee, Letterbreckaun, Poundcartron

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gowlaunlee 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.