Gowlane
Townland in the civil parish of Glanbehy, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 166.4 ha
- 411 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 2,617 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowlane, from 31 m² to 869,030 m² (86.9 ha, 214.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gowlane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Aug 2026N/a
Retention of two rooms on the ground floor, as hotel guest bedrooms
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660742
8 May 2024Conditional
RETENTION PERMISSION AS FOLLOWS (I) PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING RELOCATED ENTRANCE AND (II) PERMISSION TO RETAIN UPGRADED MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH EFFLUENT FILTERS AND PERCOLATION AREA
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460284
12 Oct 2023Refused
RETENTION PERMISSION to retain existing vehicular entrance and to retain upgraded wastewater treatment system, all associated site works & planning permission to: (1) Redevelop the existing rear basement to create a separate/standalone restaurant with kitchen and toilets and to add entrance lobby to new restaurant and (2) to construct a falconry viewing hut to the rear of the site and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360231
4 Oct 2023N/a
Invalid- Proposals include (1) redevelop the existing rear basement to contain a restaurant/kitchen and toilets and to add entrance lobby (2) construct a falconry viewing hut to the rear and (3) for retention permission to retain upgraded wastewater treatment system
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360213
30 Aug 2021Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. (C) INCREASE THE WIDTH OF THE ENTRANCE GATE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21990
11 Mar 2020Conditional
(1) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES ON SITE 1 (2) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLING A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER ON SITE 1 (3) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHEDS AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES INCLUDING SITE 2 (4) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY ON SITE 2
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20235
5 Jun 2019Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED TOGETHER WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19583
8 Oct 2018Conditional
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF AN EXISTING 18 METRE HIGH TELECOMMUNICTAIONS STRUCTURE, ANTENNAS, EQUIPMENT CONTAINER AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND AND ACCESS TRACK. THE DEVELOPMENT FORMS PART OF VODAFONE IRELANDS LTD'S EXISTING GSM AND 3G BROADBAND TELCOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18962
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
- KE063-010 Church
Description
There are no visible remains of this church (SMR file). It was built in 1816 (OSNB, vol. 2, 22). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gowlane.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gowlane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gowlane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gowlane
- Area
- 1,664,471 m² (166.45 ha, 411.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Glanbehy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Glanbehy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glanbehy electoral division: 1,269 people in 465 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolroe Lower, Coolroe Upper, Coomavoon, Curra, Gortdirragh, Kilnabrack Upper, Lauhir, Treangarriv
- Placenames
- Gowlane 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.