# Gowran, Co. Kilkenny: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gowran, barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish Gabhrán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,125,506 m² (112.55 ha, 278.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 365 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 209 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 39 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Gowran, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/parish/gowran.md - Barony: Gowran - Electoral division: Gowran, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Gowran electoral division: 1,556 people in 535 households; 78% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kilkenny, https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/1411890 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 90845 - Centre: latitude 52.632707, longitude -7.066309 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 365 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowran, from 4 m² to 325,030 m² (32.5 ha, 80.32 acres); 66 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 815361: 325,030 m² (32.5 ha, 80.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/815361.md - Parcel 830162: 112,100 m² (11.21 ha, 27.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/830162.md - Parcel 3185098: 89,656 m² (8.97 ha, 22.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3185098.md - Parcel 857757: 58,293 m² (5.83 ha, 14.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/857757.md - Parcel 826037: 52,317 m² (5.23 ha, 12.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/826037.md - Parcel 4651434: 41,819 m² (4.18 ha, 10.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651434.md - Parcel 830255: 31,071 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/830255.md - Parcel 2542867: 21,853 m² (2.19 ha, 5.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2542867.md - Parcel 845858: 20,541 m² (2.05 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/845858.md - Parcel 861601: 13,342 m² (1.33 ha, 3.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/861601.md - Parcel 1529325: 11,441 m² (1.14 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1529325.md - Parcel 857760: 10,263 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/857760.md - Parcel 848471: 9,865 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/848471.md - Parcel 5075278: 9,418 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5075278.md - Parcel 853301: 8,696 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/853301.md - Parcel 866770: 8,023 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/866770.md - Parcel 841812: 7,998 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/841812.md - Parcel 2400220: 7,729 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400220.md - Parcel 5075270: 6,892 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5075270.md - Parcel 826527: 6,252 m² (0.63 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/826527.md - Parcel 1529326: 5,860 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1529326.md - Parcel 5163399: 5,464 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163399.md - Parcel 825487: 5,447 m² (0.54 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/825487.md - Parcel 816340: 5,026 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/816340.md - Parcel 849687: 4,995 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/849687.md - Parcel 829489: 4,495 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/829489.md - Parcel 861476: 4,353 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/861476.md - Parcel 818445: 4,160 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/818445.md - Parcel 5348472: 3,769 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5348472.md - Parcel 5578724: 3,760 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5578724.md - Parcel 856658: 3,683 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/856658.md - Parcel 849394: 3,336 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/849394.md - Parcel 5033354: 3,208 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5033354.md - Parcel 2597749: 3,048 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2597749.md - Parcel 5190562: 2,996 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5190562.md - Parcel 844179: 2,854 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/844179.md - Parcel 2865597: 2,852 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2865597.md - Parcel 2400128: 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400128.md - Parcel 816593: 2,563 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/816593.md - Parcel 861688: 2,529 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/861688.md - Parcel 842532: 2,379 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/842532.md - Parcel 829274: 2,217 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/829274.md - Parcel 830500: 2,154 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/830500.md - Parcel 859213: 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/859213.md - Parcel 4830451: 1,766 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4830451.md - Parcel 824817: 1,761 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/824817.md - Parcel 820836: 1,695 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/820836.md - Parcel 844051: 1,689 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844051.md - Parcel 834372: 1,651 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/834372.md - Parcel 841865: 1,624 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/841865.md - Parcel 861227: 1,509 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/861227.md - Parcel 826036: 1,502 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/826036.md - Parcel 2684144: 1,486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2684144.md - Parcel 4699370: 1,461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4699370.md - Parcel 2400162: 1,348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400162.md - Parcel 3962449: 1,250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3962449.md - Parcel 4699396: 1,211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4699396.md - Parcel 4881422: 1,208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4881422.md - Parcel 2684149: 1,125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2684149.md - Parcel 5348471: 1,097 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5348471.md - Parcel 843944: 1,096 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/843944.md - Parcel 844031: 1,066 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844031.md - Parcel 4943894: 1,056 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4943894.md - Parcel 844677: 1,037 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844677.md - Parcel 844041: 1,031 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844041.md - Parcel 844127: 1,030 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844127.md - Parcel 2542870: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2542870.md - Parcel 5654645: 997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5654645.md - Parcel 4975397: 996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975397.md - Parcel 844682: 979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844682.md - Parcel 2675065: 970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2675065.md - Parcel 849552: 950 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/849552.md - Parcel 844025: 916 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844025.md - Parcel 5429902: 908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5429902.md - Parcel 832403: 900 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/832403.md - Parcel 815880: 890 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/815880.md - Parcel 5139006: 857 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5139006.md - Parcel 6233948: 855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6233948.md - Parcel 859576: 854 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/859576.md - Parcel 4121515: 802 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4121515.md - Parcel 6170728: 790 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6170728.md - Parcel 830161: 775 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/830161.md - Parcel 4821763: 767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4821763.md - Parcel 832161: 758 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/832161.md - Parcel 2754357: 744 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2754357.md - Parcel 832010: 713 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/832010.md - Parcel 854064: 681 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/854064.md - Parcel 2721025: 664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2721025.md - Parcel 845402: 659 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/845402.md - Parcel 830163: 648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/830163.md - Parcel 4121512: 622 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4121512.md - Parcel 4957565: 603 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4957565.md - Parcel 860772: 572 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/860772.md - Parcel 844075: 542 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844075.md - Parcel 5777115: 529 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777115.md - Parcel 5123109: 522 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5123109.md - Parcel 2641747: 521 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2641747.md - Parcel 2719748: 515 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2719748.md - Parcel 5027803: 508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5027803.md - Parcel 2727444: 483 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2727444.md - Parcel 5826644: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5826644.md - Parcel 5163626: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163626.md - Parcel 5344894: 467 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5344894.md - Parcel 6170772: 455 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6170772.md - Parcel 844698: 455 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844698.md - Parcel 2542868: 453 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2542868.md - Parcel 2673345: 450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2673345.md - Parcel 2734143: 444 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734143.md - Parcel 6089447: 439 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6089447.md - Parcel 5787277: 438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5787277.md - Parcel 2676268: 438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2676268.md - Parcel 4044227: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4044227.md - Parcel 835031: 428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/835031.md - Parcel 4832807: 427 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4832807.md - Parcel 2569983: 425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2569983.md - Parcel 844120: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844120.md - Parcel 2986986: 418 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2986986.md - Parcel 4839151: 416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4839151.md - Parcel 2689879: 409 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2689879.md - Parcel 2601671: 405 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2601671.md - Parcel 857759: 402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/857759.md - Parcel 4907706: 390 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4907706.md - Parcel 848619: 389 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/848619.md - Parcel 5410984: 382 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5410984.md - Parcel 2571360: 381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2571360.md - Parcel 5543684: 372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5543684.md - Parcel 4631673: 367 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631673.md - Parcel 5161017: 367 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5161017.md - Parcel 2607976: 363 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2607976.md - Parcel 3561624: 359 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3561624.md - Parcel 4833227: 354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4833227.md - Parcel 2590915: 352 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2590915.md - Parcel 2747682: 349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2747682.md - Parcel 4879627: 341 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4879627.md - Parcel 5787263: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5787263.md - Parcel 2607977: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2607977.md - Parcel 2987006: 336 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2987006.md - Parcel 2689881: 331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2689881.md - Parcel 2400224: 328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400224.md - Parcel 2604860: 326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2604860.md - Parcel 2571391: 326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2571391.md - Parcel 2635414: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2635414.md - Parcel 5229717: 321 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5229717.md - Parcel 5508491: 316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5508491.md - Parcel 5117011: 306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5117011.md - Parcel 5209571: 304 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5209571.md - Parcel 2604866: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2604866.md - Parcel 2676687: 302 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2676687.md - Parcel 2604880: 302 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2604880.md - Parcel 844581: 289 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844581.md - Parcel 5648994: 286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5648994.md - Parcel 2639013: 284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2639013.md - Parcel 5944846: 283 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5944846.md - Parcel 858532: 282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/858532.md - Parcel 5657289: 280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5657289.md - Parcel 826280: 274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/826280.md - Parcel 864861: 273 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/864861.md - Parcel 4062275: 271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4062275.md - Parcel 2579297: 271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2579297.md - Parcel 4906973: 267 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4906973.md - Parcel 2685784: 259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685784.md - Parcel 844183: 256 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844183.md - Parcel 838720: 250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/838720.md - Parcel 6170733: 249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6170733.md - Parcel 2706747: 246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2706747.md - Parcel 2571423: 246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2571423.md - Parcel 2670327: 243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2670327.md - Parcel 2689809: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2689809.md - Parcel 2700899: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2700899.md - Parcel 3330038: 238 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3330038.md - Parcel 4798226: 230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798226.md - Parcel 2601588: 225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2601588.md - Parcel 843766: 222 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/843766.md - Parcel 6059574: 218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6059574.md - Parcel 4915045: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4915045.md - Parcel 3834369: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3834369.md - Parcel 2721918: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2721918.md - Parcel 6221197: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6221197.md - Parcel 2542869: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2542869.md - Parcel 4882714: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882714.md - Parcel 4836348: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4836348.md - Parcel 2747679: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2747679.md - Parcel 4835289: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835289.md - Parcel 844116: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844116.md - Parcel 4661500: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661500.md - Parcel 2696726: 206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2696726.md - Parcel 4537551: 206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4537551.md - Parcel 2635422: 205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2635422.md - Parcel 844097: 203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844097.md - Parcel 3421711: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3421711.md - Parcel 4545528: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4545528.md - Parcel 5177145: 199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5177145.md - Parcel 4835950: 198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4835950.md - Parcel 844192: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844192.md - Parcel 4836118: 193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4836118.md - Parcel 4670888: 190 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4670888.md - Parcel 848261: 186 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/848261.md - Parcel 863134: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/863134.md - Parcel 2596199: 182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2596199.md - Parcel 2580958: 178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2580958.md - Parcel 2582706: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2582706.md - Parcel 4943812: 174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4943812.md - Parcel 3991335: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3991335.md - Parcel 4674015: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4674015.md - Parcel 5670065: 168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5670065.md - Parcel 5073422: 168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5073422.md - Parcel 5657347: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5657347.md - Parcel 2600516: 166 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2600516.md - Parcel 3489921: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3489921.md - Parcel 4838372: 162 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4838372.md - Parcel 4026000: 159 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4026000.md - Parcel 5543670: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5543670.md - Parcel 844067: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844067.md - Parcel 5288347: 156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5288347.md - Parcel 848314: 156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/848314.md - Parcel 4631677: 156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631677.md - Parcel 2910504: 152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2910504.md - Parcel 2719968: 152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2719968.md - Parcel 4798229: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798229.md - Parcel 844629: 150 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844629.md - Parcel 2719763: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2719763.md - Parcel 5296240: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5296240.md - Parcel 5524681: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5524681.md - Parcel 843927: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/843927.md - Parcel 2589647: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2589647.md - Parcel 5543657: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5543657.md - Parcel 849267: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/849267.md - Parcel 2674902: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2674902.md - Parcel 4945460: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4945460.md - Parcel 843832: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/843832.md - Parcel 2705024: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2705024.md - Parcel 2574580: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2574580.md - Parcel 4105003: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4105003.md - Parcel 2604809: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2604809.md - Parcel 2672985: 142 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2672985.md - Parcel 4943852: 141 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4943852.md - Parcel 5543682: 141 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5543682.md - Parcel 4840556: 141 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4840556.md - Parcel 2571420: 141 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2571420.md - Parcel 5211863: 141 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5211863.md - Parcel 2646738: 140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2646738.md - Parcel 5604603: 140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5604603.md - Parcel 2733329: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733329.md - Parcel 844132: 139 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844132.md - Parcel 5543634: 138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5543634.md - Parcel 4945025: 137 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4945025.md - Parcel 2691668: 135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2691668.md - Parcel 2648721: 134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2648721.md - Parcel 4422284: 134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4422284.md - Parcel 4659482: 134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659482.md - Parcel 4884224: 134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4884224.md - Parcel 844311: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844311.md - Parcel 3202059: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3202059.md - Parcel 2673763: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2673763.md - Parcel 5543692: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5543692.md - Parcel 5524685: 130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5524685.md - Parcel 2570069: 130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2570069.md - Parcel 4840561: 130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4840561.md - Parcel 2727210: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2727210.md - Parcel 2400150: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2400150.md - Parcel 2596220: 126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2596220.md - Parcel 4896556: 126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4896556.md - Parcel 4834321: 125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4834321.md - Parcel 4543050: 125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4543050.md - Parcel 3324514: 125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3324514.md - Parcel 2734070: 124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734070.md - Parcel 4663010: 124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4663010.md - Parcel 2596247: 123 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2596247.md - Parcel 4035649: 122 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4035649.md - Parcel 844542: 121 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844542.md - Parcel 2918862: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2918862.md - Parcel 844332: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844332.md - Parcel 5492397: 119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5492397.md - Parcel 2600544: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2600544.md - Parcel 4945416: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4945416.md - Parcel 2700868: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2700868.md - Parcel 3569142: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3569142.md - Parcel 4932317: 116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4932317.md - Parcel 2673705: 116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2673705.md - Parcel 2596242: 116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2596242.md - Parcel 2898959: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2898959.md - Parcel 2609708: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2609708.md - Parcel 2676980: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2676980.md - Parcel 2596241: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2596241.md - Parcel 2676502: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2676502.md - Parcel 4993719: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4993719.md - Parcel 2596259: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2596259.md - Parcel 3794987: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3794987.md - Parcel 3392843: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3392843.md - Parcel 4537788: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4537788.md - Parcel 3923943: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3923943.md - Parcel 4943496: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4943496.md - Parcel 5820781: 110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5820781.md - Parcel 2710157: 110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2710157.md - Parcel 845601: 110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/845601.md - Parcel 4985939: 109 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4985939.md - Parcel 844396: 109 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/844396.md - Parcel 2709201: 109 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2709201.md - Parcel 4907632: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4907632.md - Parcel 2635396: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2635396.md 65 smaller parcels are not in this twin: the API lists them all, https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/gowran ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gowran 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) 39 applications, newest first. - 23 Feb 2026, Kilkenny County Council 2660103: N/a. Permission, 20 homes. FOR DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 20 No. HOUSES AS FOLLOWS: 6 No. DORMER BUNGALOWS (4 BEDROOM), 6 No SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES (3 BEDROOM), 8 No. TERRACED HOUSES IN 2 BLOCKS OF 4 EACH (3 BEDROOM), PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 8 NO SELF SERVICED SITES FOR THE PROVISION OF ONE HOUSE ON EACH SITE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC FOUL SEWER, PRIVATE WELL, SURFACE WATER ATTENUTATION WORKS, LANDSCAPING WORKS, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, RECESSED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660103/0 - 17 Jan 2026, Kilkenny County Council 2660035: Conditional. Retention. For a first floor extension to the existing dwelling with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660035/0 - 28 Nov 2025, Kilkenny County Council 25127: Conditional. Retention. to retain two storey side & rear extension to existing two storey house. This is a protected structure, reference C114. Including all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/25127/0 - 19 Nov 2025, Kilkenny County Council 25123: N/a. Retention. to retain a two storey side and rear extension to existing two storey house including all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/25123/0 - 13 Nov 2025, Kilkenny County Council 25121: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a two storey dwelling, connection to services. Including all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/25121/0 - 20 Oct 2025, Kilkenny County Council 25116: Conditional. Retention. for (A) planning permission to construct a single storey extension link corridor to side of existing house, also (B) retention permission to retain existing single storey timber frame domestic structure to side of existing house, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/25116/0 - 17 Mar 2025, Kilkenny County Council 2560124: Conditional. Permission. for the development of a first-floor extension over an existing ground floor and at the rear of the building and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560124/0 - 3 Mar 2025, Kilkenny County Council 2560098: Conditional. Permission. to construct an extension to my existing dwelling house with existing service connections to mains water and sewage, including all necessary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560098/0 - 16 Jun 2024, Kilkenny County Council 2460281: Conditional. Retention. permission to retain the 0.73 m2 ground floor extension, 22.34 m2 first floor extension and 21.61 m2 services platform at the second floor level, and a permission to redesign the front elevation and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460281/0 - 26 May 2024, Kilkenny County Council 2460239: Conditional. Permission, 20 homes. FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 20 No. HOUSES AS FOLLOWS: 8 No. FOUR BEDROOM TWO STOREY SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES IN 4 BLOCKS OF SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES,12 No. THREE BED TWO STOREY SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES IN 6 BLOCKS OF 2 HOUSES OF SEMI-DEATCHED HOUSES, PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 8 NO SELF SERVICED SITES FOR THE PROVISION OF ONE HOUSE ON EACH SITE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC FOUL SEWER, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATER, SURFACE WATER ATTENUTATION WORKS, LANDSCAPING WORKS, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, RECESSED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460239/0 - 23 May 2024, Kilkenny County Council 2460234: Conditional. Permission, 23 homes. for Alterations to previously approved development on a site at Ogenty, Kilkenny Road, Gowran, County Kilkenny under planning reg no. 19/56 which approved 40 no. houses and associated works of which 17 no. units have been constructed. These proposed alterations to that permission consist of: 1). Change in house type of remaining unconstructed 23 no. units from previously permitted 10 no. 4 bed units and 13 no. 3 bed units to now provide 11 no. 4 bed units and 12 no. 3 bed units (removing 1 no. 3 bed unit and replacing it with an additional 1 no. 4 bed unit); 2). Minor retraction of the northern boundary of the previously permitted play area to the south east and reduction of car parking immediately to the west of that public open space with the as approved access to area; 3). Removal of a single permitted parking space and provision of additional footpath at the shared surface area to incorporate minor site layout changes and improve use and safety of that shared surface area; 4). Reductions to the previously permitted 54 no. car parking spaces to now provide 53 no. car parking spaces predominantly within curtilage and associated amendments to vehicular access; 5). Alterations to the previously permitted road layout to incorporate minor road widening and realignment; 6). Changes to approved landscaping; 7). and all necessary associated site development works above and below ground to accommodate these amendments. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460234/0 - 17 May 2024, Kilkenny County Council 2461: Refused. Extension of duration. on Planning Permission P18/639. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461/0 - 29 Jul 2023, Kilkenny County Council 2360350: Refused. Permission, 44 homes. FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 44 No. HOUSES AS FOLLOWS: 18 No. THREE BED TWO STOREY TERRACED HOUSES IN 3 BLOCKS OF 6 HOUSES, 16 No. THREE BED TWO STOREY TERRACED HOUSES IN 4 BLOCKS OF 4 HOUSES, 2 No. THREE BED TWO STOREY SEMI DETACED HOUSES, 4 No. SEMI-DETACHED SINGLE STOREY TWO BED HOUSES IN 2 BLOCKS OF 2 HOUSES 4 No. FOUR BEDROOM, TWO STOREY DETACHED HOUSES. CONNECTION TO PUBLIC FOUL SEWER, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC WATER, SURFACE WATER ATTENUTATION WORKS, LANDSCAPING WORKS, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, RECESSED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360350/0 - 6 Apr 2023, Kilkenny County Council 2360140: N/a. Outline permission. for a fully serviced dwelling and all necessary site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360140/0 - 21 Feb 2023, Kilkenny County Council 2360059: Conditional. Permission. for the erection of an extension and alterations to the side of existing dwelling and relocate the existing pedestrian access to back yard from the front to the side of the property and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360059/0 - 21 Oct 2022, Kilkenny County Council 22689: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to build a single storey extension to the rear of my dwelling house and all associated site development works. This is a protected structure (RPS C115). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22689/0 - 16 May 2022, Kilkenny County Council 22313: Unconditional. Extension of duration. of Planning Permission Reference 17/220. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22313/0 - 5 Apr 2022, Kilkenny County Council 22216: Conditional. Permission. 1. To demolish existing two-storey rear extension to the rear and partial side of the existing dwelling 2. To construct a two-storey extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling 3. Internal and elevational modifications to existing dwelling 4. Set back of gate to existing vehicular access from public road 5. and all associated site developments works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22216/0 - 29 Jul 2021, Kilkenny County Council 21656: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for change of use on first floor and attic conversion to 2-bedroom apartment and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21656/0 - 13 Apr 2021, Kilkenny County Council 21287: N/a. Permission. for change of use from garden to seasonal campsite, The proposed development will consist of 15no. seasonal tent. Also 3 no. dry toilets. NIAH RMP ACA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21287/0 - 31 Mar 2021, Kilkenny County Council 21237: Conditional. Permission. to convert an existing derelict workshop (formerly a house/post office) to a house on lands. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21237/0 - 15 Mar 2021, Kilkenny County Council 21175: N/a. Permission. for development at this site situated at Gowran House NIAH RMP ACA. The development will consist of: for change of use from garden to seasonal campsite. The proposed development will consist of 15 no. seasonal tents also 3 no dry toilets. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21175/0 - 16 Feb 2021, Kilkenny County Council 2183: N/a. Permission. for development at this site situated at Gowran House NIAH RMP ACA. The development will consist of: for change of use from garden to seasonal campsite. The proposed development will consist of 15 no. seasonal tents. Also 3 no. dry toilets. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2183/0 - 4 Feb 2021, Kilkenny County Council 2156: Conditional. Permission. to construct a two storey extension to existing house, also permission to retain mobile home (during construction phase), and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2156/0 - 6 Oct 2020, Kilkenny County Council 20664: Refused. Permission, 2 homes. to construct a new, two-storey, end terrace dwelling, including retention of mobile home (during construction phase), and all associated site works attached to 20 Greenview. To be called 20A Greenview,. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20664/0 - 8 Sept 2020, Kilkenny County Council 20594: N/a. Permission. to construct a new, two-storey, end terrace dwelling, and all associated site works attached to 20 Greenview, Gowran. To be called 20A Greenview. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20594/0 - 13 May 2020, Kilkenny County Council 20292: Conditional. Permission. for development. The development will consist of a multi-purpose play area, including the following: Children's play zones, multi-sport ball court enclosure, perimeter walking track, access road to adjoining soccer club lands, carparking, landscaping (including footpaths), boundary and ballcourt fencing, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20292/0 - 8 Nov 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19842: Conditional. Permission, 3 homes. to complete 2 no. dwelling houses and domestic garages and construct a dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19842/0 - 18 Oct 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19782: N/a. Permission. to complete 2 no. dwelling houses and construct a dwelling house and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19782/0 - 2 Aug 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19547: N/a. Permission. for development of a first floor extension over an existing flat roof and all associated site works. All located at the rear of the building. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19547/0 - 18 Jul 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19503: Conditional. Permission. for development. The development will consist / consists of:- Upgrade works for the Gowran Regional Water Supply Scheme consisting of: - Development of two existing boreholes (Boreholes BHA1 and BH TW2) and the drilling and development of one new borehole (Borehole BHA2) and associated infrastructure and siteworks as raw water source boreholes. - Construction of a new 1,500 m3/day (cubic metres per day) Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and all associated site works including site drainage, site access road, hardstanding areas, car parking, footpaths, lighting, landscaping and palisade security fencing at a site north of Gowran village on the western side of the R448. The new WTP will include a new Water Treatment Plant Building (consisting of an Office and Control Room, Changing Room, External Storage Room, Treated Water Pumping Room and Chemical Dosing Facilities), Underground Holding Tank for the storage of waste flows and two new Treated Water Storage Tanks (TWSTs), each with a water holding capacity of 660m3.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19503/0 - 5 Apr 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19224: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. to convert existing 'Public House' into two dwelling houses complete with new garden area to the rear, also build bathrooms and kitchens extension to the rear, re open side access to the rear yard and gardens, alterations and renovations to front elevation to match designs of existing street houses, also demolition of lounge and toilets. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19224/0 - 11 Mar 2019, Kilkenny County Council 19146: N/a. Permission. to convert existing 'Public House' into two dwelling houses complete with new garden area to the rear also build bathrooms and kitchens extension to the rear, reopen side access to the rear yard and gardens, alterations and renovations to front elevation to match designs of existing street houses. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19146/0 - 7 Feb 2019, Kilkenny County Council 1956: Conditional. Permission, 40 homes. for 1) The construction of 40 no. two storey residential dwellings consisting of 10 no. 4 bed dwellings, 17 no. 3 bed dwellings and 13 no. 2 bed dwellings; 2) Provision of public open space; 3) 87 no. car parking spaces and vehicular access; 4) Landscaping and boundary treatments; 5) Road widening alignment and provision of a public footpath along the western boundary of the application site; 6) Underground water storage tank and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1956/0 - 26 Sept 2018, Kilkenny County Council 18639: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. to demolish existing former commercial unit known as Perle's, and to construct 2 no. semi-detached two storey dwellings, with all associated site works, at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18639/0 - 4 Sept 2018, Kilkenny County Council 18583: N/a. Permission. to demolish existing former commercial unit known as Perle's, which is a protected structure, and to construct 2 no. semi-detached two storey dwellings, with all associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18583/0 - 24 Apr 2018, Kilkenny County Council 18258: Conditional. Permission. for development at this site situated at Mill House, a protected structure (Ref D110). The development will consist of demolition of existing single storey extension to side and gable wall of derelict shed to rear and the construction of a single storey and two storey extension to the side, elevational changes, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18258/0 - 16 May 2017, Kilkenny County Council 17321: N/a. Permission. for demolition of existing single storey extension to side and gable wall of derelict shed to rear and the construction of a single storey extension to the side and two storey extension to rear, elevational changes, and all associated siteworks at Mill House, Mill Road, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, a protected structure (ref D110). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17321/0 - 7 Apr 2017, Kilkenny County Council 17220: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a) the renovation of existing dwelling including the construction of a rear two storey extension, b) construction of a new two storey townhouse, c) single storey extension to existing Montessori including attic storage area. Permission to include for new internal roadway including on site car parking spaces, new boundary walls, domestic storage sheds and all other associated ancillary site works. The site is partially located within the Gowran Architectural Conservation Area as identified in the Gowran Local Area Plan.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17220/0 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 Gowran. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KK020-060: Historic town, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060----. On a gentle W-facing slope, on the N side of a tributary of the River Barrow, which flows c. 5km to the E. Kilkenny city (KK019-026----) is located 12km to the WNW. The town is organised on an E-W axis with burgage plots running from the main street N and S to the town defences (KK020-060003-), though the length of the plots on the S side appear to have been less, possibly as they backed onto the castle demesne. A burgage boundary in the NE area of the town was excavated in 2005 (03E0863) in advance of the construction of the Abbeygrove housing estate and was found to consist of a fosse (Wth c. 1m; D c. 0.5m) (Stafford 2008, 196). The 13th-century parish church (KK020-060006-) is roughly centrally placed, though set back, on the S side of the main street. A 1710/11 map the town showing a cross towards the E end of the main street, suggests that the original market place was located in this area, S of the main street and probably infilled with a 'Malt House' (KK020-060018-) (White 1710/11). There is a triangular fair green at the W end of the town. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 399), before the arrival of the Anglo-Normans, the chief rulers of Ossory had a royal residence at Bealach Ghabhrain (Gowran Pass), which was a significant part of the routeway between Ossory (Munster) and Leinster. Between 1162 and 1165, Dermot O’Ryan’s grant of lands for the foundation of the Cistercian Abbey of Killenny was confirmed at ‘Belachgaurain’ by his overlord King Dermot Mac Murrough, in the presence of Laurence O’Toole, Archbishop of Dublin and many other nobles (ibid., 399-400). Following the acquisition of the Kingdom of Leinster by Richard de Clare (Strongbow) in 1172, his followers were rewarded with portions of the kingdom and Gowran went to Theobald fitz Walter, Chief Butler of Ireland (ibid., 400). It is likely that a motte and bailey castle (KK020-060005-) was probably erected in Gowran around this time. Before fitz Walter’s death in 1206, he granted a charter of incorporation to his ‘free burgesses of Balligaueran’ (ibid.). Carrigan suggests that it was also fitz Walter who appropriated the Rectory, or moiety of the Rectory of Gowran to the Knights Templars, of the Priory of Kilmainham, who are found in possession of same as early as the year 1254 (ibid.). Early in Edward II’s reign, c. 1307-10, oak trees from the Templars’ woods at Athkilton were given to repair the houses at ‘Ballygawran’ (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 329-30). Gowran was besieged and captured by Edward Bruce during the Bruce invasion in 1316 (ibid.). In 1321 Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, who had died in London following a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James at Compostella, was buried in the parish church (KK020-060006-) in Gowran, as was his son James, the 1st Earl of Ormond in 1337 (ibid.). In the 14th century Gowran was very much a frontier town, as is emphasised in a document of 1382 which gives, ‘licence to Thomas Derkyn and Walter Cantell, who are staying in the marches of Ballygarveran on the frontier of the Irish enemies, viz. McMurgh and Onolan and their accomplices, to treat and make concord for themselves, their tenants and for the men of others, and to give them provisions and cloth, for the defence of their tenants and others against the invasions of the Irish, provided that they should not give or sell them any victuals, horses or armour in time of war, and that this treat is not to the K[ing]’s prejudice nor that of this faithful people (chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/https://chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/5-richard-ii/192; accessed 9 March 2021). No doubt in response to this threat, and in keeping with the prestige of the Butler family, a new castle was erected c. 1385 by James Butler, the 3rd Earl of Ormond. This castle (KK020-060004-), which no longer survives, appears to have been built on a site close to that occupied by the later house built in 1816 by Viscount Clifden (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 400)). ‘Castle (Site of)’ is indicated on the 1900 revised 6-inch OS map c. 75m NE of the later ‘Gowran Castle’, though curiously is not indicated on the earlier 1839 edition. There is a reference to one Teige OCarroll being imprisoned in Gowran castle 1399 (ibid.). Carrigan quotes from the Patent Rolls, stating that in 1415, ‘The town of Balygaveran, in the county of Kilkenny, in the marshes of the said Co., being situated far from any English aid, and being surrounded by Irish enemies who have lately burned it and destroyed the lieges therein, and daily threaten to do so again, the King grants it burgesses and commons, to assist them in surrounding their town with a stone wall, paving their streets, and doing other necessary works, the privilege of taking, for the term of forty years, such tolls and customs as were taken in the town of Kilkenny by royal charter, rendering all accounts thereof before the Earl of Ormond and not to the Treasury’ (ibid.; chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/https://chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/5-henry-v/165; accessed 9 March 2021). In c. 1501 the portreeve (mayor) and ‘commons’ of Ballygrowran sent their town charter to the Earl of Ormond requesting it be reconfirmed and that, ‘we might be relewed [released] of Coyne and lewray [coyne and livery] as your fre burgeses acordynge our furst fundacion specified in our said old chartre’ (Curtis 1937, vol. 4, 347 (Appendum 3, 56)). The practice of coyne and livery, whereby the townsfolk had to billet, feed and sometimes pay the wages of troops, had been banned within the Pale in 1488 but continued in the march territories, obviously much to the annoyance of the townsfolk of Gowran. The Calendar of Ormond Deeds records an inquisition taken at Kilkenny after the death of James Butler, Earl of Ormond in 1546 which describes the manor of Ballygawran (Gowran) as containing, ‘appurtenances [rights pertaining to property], and one castle, thirty messuages [a house with outbuildings and a parcel of land or yard], eighty acres of arable land, four acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, with two acres of underwood and two water mills, with appurtenances, in Ballygawran, also 9l. 6s. 8d. chief rent due of the burgesses of said town each year, besides suit of court [obligation to attend and participate in the manorial court]’ (Curtis 1937, vol. 4, 301-02 (361)). A more detailed rental account of Gowran appears in the Calendar of Ormond Deeds c. 1550 (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 44-7 (25)). This lists the burgesses according to where they are located in the town. A 1710/11 map of the town shows the town with its defences, gates, houses and property boundaries. Three town gates are indicated, the ‘Magdalan Gate’ at the E end of the town, the ‘West Gate’ at the W end and an internal ‘Gate’ at the E end of the market place. The earlier rental account however, mentions a total of seven town gates, referred to as ‘barr’ or ‘barre’ including, ‘Maugdelin barre’, ‘Castell barr’, ‘Tibirdowanis barr’, ‘West barre’, ‘Nywe gate’, ‘Tregis barr’ and ‘Gregisbarr’, which are possibly described following the town circuit from E to S and then W to N (though also probably including an inner gate). ‘Tibirdowanis’ is possibly a corruption of the Irish for Tobar an Domhnaigh (Sunday’s Well). The 1710/11 map names the main street, ‘The Street’ and the fair green, ‘The Green’. A ‘Haggerd Street’ is named running outside of, and parallel to, the S town wall. A cobbled surface excavated (06E0237) in 2006 in advance of a proposed development in Gowran demesne was identified as the possible remains of Haggerd Street (McLoughlin 2007, 18). There are three lanes on the S side of the town, one, ‘The Lane’ runs S from the E end of the main street towards the castle which probably terminated at Castle gate, one called ‘College Lane’ which provided access to the college immediately E of the parish church, and one called ‘St John’s Lane’ which ran S from ‘The Green’ and possibly terminated at ‘Tibirdowanis barr’. There was another lane/street whic - KK020-060002: Cross - Market cross (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060002-. A 1710/11 map the town showing a cross towards the E end of the main street, suggests that the original market place was located in this area, S of the main street and probably infilled with a 'Malt House' (KK020-060018-) (White 1710/11). There is a triangular fair green at the W end of the town which Thomas (1992, vol. 2, 115) suggests may have originally been outside the town but which was incorporated as a result of an expansion westward. The cross indicated on the White map was probably the market cross and this appears to have subsequently moved to the fair green which effectively became the market place. Local tradition relates that, ‘the Cromwellians broke the cross down and that the pieces were scattered on the green’ (Drennan 1965, 58). Only the base of the cross survives. It has been placed on a circular concrete plinth on the SW grassy island within the green. It consists of a straight-sided plain block of limestone, square in plan (dims. 0.6m x 0.6m), which tapers towards the top. The top of the base has a rectangular socket (dims. 0.18m x 0.2m; D 0.18m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 March 2021 - KK020-060003: Town defences, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060003-. On a gentle W-facing slope. A short length of a stream runs along the SW angle of the town, part of a tributary of the River Barrow, which flows S of the town, reaching the Barrow c. 5km to the E. Kilkenny city (KK019-026----) is located 12km to the WNW. The medieval town was roughly rectangular (area c. 12-19 hectares) organised on an E-W axis with burgage plots running from the main street N and S to the town defences (KK020-060003-), though the length of the plots on the S side appear to have been less, possibly as they backed onto the castle demesne. The N line of the town defences had been preserved in the N properties boundary, as indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and 1900 revision. These survived relatively intact up until the mid 1990s, however, subsequent expansion of housing developments along the N side of the town has obscured the N line of the town defences. The only murage grant known for Gowran is referred to in the Patent Rolls, stating that in 1415, ‘The town of Balygaveran, in the county of Kilkenny, in the marshes of the said Co., being situated far from any English aid, and being surrounded by Irish enemies who have lately burned it and destroyed the lieges therein, and daily threaten to do so again, the King grants it burgesses and commons, to assist them in surrounding their town with a stone wall, paving their streets, and doing other necessary works, the privilege of taking, for the term of forty years, such tolls and customs as were taken in the town of Kilkenny by royal charter, rendering all accounts thereof before the Earl of Ormond and not to the Treasury’ (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 400; chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/https://chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/5-henry-v/165; accessed 9 March 2021). A 1710/11 map of the town shows the town with its defences, gates, houses and property boundaries. ‘The Rampart or Trench’ is indicated forming the N line of the town defences, while ‘THE TOWN WALL’, forming the S boundary, is indicated running NW-SE from Gowran Castle (KK020-060004-) to the edge of the town, opposite the inner gate (White 1710/11). Three town gates are indicated, the ‘Magdalan Gate’ at the E end of the town, the ‘West Gate’ at the W end and an internal ‘Gate’ at the E end of the market place (ibid.). A rental account of Gowran in the Calendar of Ormond Deeds, c. 1550, mentions a total of seven town gates, referred to as ‘barr’ or ‘barre’ including, ‘Maugdelin barre’, ‘Castell barr’, ‘Tibirdowanis barr’, ‘West barre’, ‘Nywe gate’, ‘Tregis barr’ and ‘Gregisbarr’, which are possibly described following the town circuit from E to S and then W to N (though also probably including an inner gate) (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 44-7 (25)). ‘Tibirdowanis’ is possibly a corruption of the Irish for Tobar an Domhnaigh (Sunday’s Well). Thomas (1992, vol. 2, 115) offers two suggestions for the presence on an internal gate, favouring the later. Firstly, that it indicates that the town was originally larger and contracted, necessitating the building on an inner gate, possibly coincident with the 15th-century murage grant (ibid.). Secondly, that the inner gate was originally an external gate and the town extended westward, an argument strengthened by the fact that the fair green was usually located outside the town and had become incorporated and that ‘Haggerd Street’, shown on the 1710/11 map running outside of, and parallel to, the S town wall, was probably accessed from St John’s Lane, probably the original extra-mural route to the S (ibid.). There are three lanes on the S side of the town, one, ‘The Lane’ runs S from the E end of the main street towards the castle which probably terminated at Castle gate, one called ‘College Lane’ which provided access to the college immediately E of the parish church, and one called ‘St John’s Lane’ which ran S from ‘The Green’ and possibly terminated at ‘Tibirdowanis barr’. There was another lane/street which ran from the NW angle of the green to a gate. This lane is suggested by the arrangement of property boundaries on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and was identified in an excavation (06E0625) prior to the Ogenty housing development (Ó Drisceoil 2009, 263). There was probably another lane/street leading to a gate in the N circuit, perhaps running from the N side of the green. An archaeological excavation (96E0314) through the N line of the town defences (ITM 663277, 653645) uncovered a fosse (Wth 4.7m; max. D 2.1m below ground level) which the excavator suggested was originally c. 5m wide and c. 1.7m deep and probably defined the northern edge of the town (Campbell 1996, 3-5). Excavations (03E0863) prior to the construction of the Abbeygrove housing estate revealed several sections of the town ditch (Wth 4-5.9m; D 1.35-1.5m) towards the E end of the N line of town defences, running NE-SW (between 14 and 15 Abbeygrove and the Gowran Abbey nursing home), with indications of a substantial internal bank (Wth 4.5m) (Stafford 2003, 8, 9; 2008, 196). Further excavations (04E0201) N of the fair green, in advance of The Steeples housing estate, revealed that the town ditch (Wth c. 4m) had continued along the line drawn in the 1710/11 map and that the kick-out at the back of the property had been a later 18th or early 19th-century extension (McLoughlin 2004, 10). Discolouration of the subsoil S of the town ditch was interpreted as possible residual bank material (ibid.). The excavation (06E0625) prior to the Ogenty housing development also revealed part of the town ditch (Wth 3m; D just over 1m) in the NW angle of the town, running E-W and beginning to turn SW, showing that the kick-out indicated on the 1710/11 map does not follow the medieval town defences (Delany 2023; Ó Drisceoil 2009, 263). The foundations of a mortar bonded wall (T c. 0.7m), possibly the town wall, were identified S of the town during the excavation (06E0237) in advance of a proposed development (McLoughlin 2004, 14, 18). Delany (2023) summaries the variations in the town ditch as, 'archaeological excavations along the line of the towns northern defences also uncovered a ditch, which ranged from 6m wide and 1.5m deep on the high ground in the east extent of the town, to 4m wide and 1m deep on the site adjoining the excavation site in the lower-lying west extent of the town. The results of the various investigations indicate that the north side of the town was protected by a substantial ditch, and probably an internal earthen bank most likely formed of upcast from the ditch. The ditch appears to have been more substantial to the east, reducing in width and depth as it proceeded downslope to the west'. Ref.: Delany, D. 2023 Archaeological excavation at Ogenty, Kilkenny Road, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Final report. Excavation licence number: 21E0385. An Bord Pleanala reference: ABP-306914-19. Dominic Delany & Associates. Unpublished report Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 March 2020 - KK020-060006: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060006-. Roughly S of centre of the medieval town of Gowran. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 400), Theobald fitz Walter, before his death in 1206, ‘granted a charter of incorporation to his free burgesses of Balligaueran [Gowran]. Possibly it was he, too, who appropriated the Rectory, or moiety of the Rectory, of Gowran to the Knights Templars, of the Priory of Kilmainham, who are found in possession of same as early as the year 1254’. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 329), the Knights Templars had a dispute over the advowson [church benefice] of the chapel of ‘Ballygaveran’ in 1253. In 1312 there was another dispute over, ‘the advowson of the moiety [e.g. a half portion of the church benefice] of the Church of the Blessed Mary of Ballygowrane’, between Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick and the Dean and Chapter of St Canice’s cathedral, Kilkenny, it was agreed that the later would support, ‘four priests to celebrate Masses in the said Church of the Blessed Mary’ for Edmund Butler and his descendants in perpetuity (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 408-09). According to Carrigan (ibid., 409) the collegiate residence for these priests is indicated as “Colledge” on a 1710 map of Gowran and, ‘adjoined the old churchyard of Gowran, on the east, where its foundations are still traceable’. When Edmund Butler died in London in 1321, his body was brought back to Ireland and buried in Gowran church. In 1337 his son James, the 1st Earl of Ormond was also buried in this church, as was the 3rd Earl, also James, in 1404. In 1501 (based on order of Ormond Deeds) the portreeve (mayor) and ‘commons’ of Ballygrowran sent a request to the Earl of Ormond that, 'it wolde pleas youe to send to your chirche of Balygauerane sum ornaments at your pleasir wher with the dywne service in the same mey be augmented unto thonour of god and a perpetual memory of your lordship and of your full noble antecessers thryn buried’ (Curtis 1937, vol. 4, 347 (Appendum 3, 56)). In the Royal Visitation Book of 1615 it was noted that four priests were living together in their collage (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 410). The church originally consisted of an aisled nave and chancel separated by a crossing tower. Stalley (1971, 75-80) noted the similarity between the design and execution of Gowran church with St Canice’s Cathedral and St Mary’s church in Thomastown, suggesting that they were built c. 1260 by the same master mason, whom he coined the ‘Gowran master’. He notes other mid-13th century parallels between the main doorway at Gowran, in the N aisle of the nave, with those at Graiguenamanagh and St Canice’s Cathedral (Stalley 1987, 65). The chancel, together with a side chapel and turret, were demolished in 1827 to make way for a C of I church, probably designed by William Robertson (Dolan 2000, vol. 3, 112). In 1872 this church was largely rebuilt by Thomas Henry Wyatt (ibid.). Grose (1791, vol. 1, pl. 46, 47) has a drawing and plan of the church before it was altered. In this the chancel, which is roofed, is lit by three three-light windows in the S wall and one at the E end of the N wall, and by a large five-light window in the E gable. A small single-storey roofless building with S gable is shown projecting from the S wall of the chancel and another building is shown in plan projected from the N wall. A mural stair at the W end of this latter building suggests it was at least two-storeys high. The surviving remains consist of the crossing tower and the aisled nave. The crossing tower was probably heightened in the 15th century. During the rebuilding works of 1872 the vaulting underneath the tower was removed, ‘apparently with the view of giving the same elevation as the choir roof to the portion of the belfry which will form part of the church’ (Dolan 2000, vol. 3, 113). The original arch of the crossing tower is visible in the W face of the W wall of the tower, where it has been blocked up and a 13th-century doorway inserted, into which a modern pointed doorway, accessed via a metal stair, has been inserted. In 1910-11 the Office of Public Works repaired a bad crack in the S face of the tower and stabilised the W gable of the church (OPW report). In 1935 the church was, ‘thoroughly repaired’ and part of the W wall was underpinned (ibid.). At some point in the 19th century a large buttress was built up against the S end of the W face of the W wall of the tower. The nave arcade originally consisted of four arches on the N and S, the S arcade is illustrated in Grose’s (1791, vol. 1, pl. 46) but has since collapsed, leaving only the N arcade upstanding. Its piers are quatrefoil in plan with chamfered arches springing from plain horizontally-moulded capitals. There are four quatrefoil clerestorey windows in the N wall within segmental-pointed rear-arches, similar to those at St Canice’s Cathedral and Bective Abbey, Co. Meath (Stalley 1987, 110). The two central clerestorey windows are blocked up. The arcade wall is topped with stepped battlements. The W gable of the nave is lit by a graded three-light window with trefoil-pointed heads. The rear-arches are moulded and there are hood-mouldings within and without. Internally there are banded shafts surmounted by foliage capitals with carved heads forming the stops. Above this window there is a six-lobed occulus and above that, illuminating the roof space, is a flat-headed single-light window within a pointed embrasure . The aisles are lit by twin-lights at each end. These are trefoil pointed with a quatrefoil above. The eastern examples have inner frames consisting of a central pillar bearing moulded, trefoil-headed arches with a quatrefoil in the central spandrel. It is embellished with many foliage cusps and the subsidiary arches have dog-tooth ornamentation (Stalley 1971, 80). At the E end of the S aisle there is a double piscina, the central pillar of the double trefoil-headed arch is missing, as is the lower stone of the quatrefoil in the central spandrel. Also in the S aisle cinquefoil arches span tomb recesses in the S wall. To the W of the S aisle is the mortuary chapel erected by the Kealy family in the 17th century and contains a wall monument (KK020-060038-) to Piers Kealy and his wife, dated 1648. Grose’s (1791, vol. 1, pl. 46) illustration shows this chapel as a roofless ruin, the E gable of which is built against a two-storey square tower. According to Drennan (1965, 60) the N aisle was divided into four compartments to buttress the N wall of the nave against threatened collapse. In the easternmost compartment a wall monument (KK020-060033-) to James Kealy and his two wives, dated 1626, has been built up against the E wall. The C of I church went out of use c. 1970, at which time the medieval font was moved to the C of I church at Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow (ibid., 114). The former C of I church has since been renovated to house and display an ogham stone (KK020-060007-) many of the graveslabs (KK020-060008-; KK020-060034- to KK020-060037-; KK020-060039- to KK020-060040-; KK020-060042-; KK020-060044- to KK020-060050-; KK020-060052- to KK020-060058-; KK020-060067- to KK020-060068-) and effigial tombs (KK020-060009-; KK020-060032-; KK020-060043-; KK020-060051-; KK020-060062- to KK020-060066-) from the medieval parish church. Some of these are in the nave and other are in the mortuary chapel S of the nave. (National Monument No. 214) See attached photographs: KK020-060006-_01 W gable and S side of nave and crossing tower from SW KK020-060006-_02 N side of church from the NW KK020-060006-_03 Interior of former C of I church on site of former chancel KK020-060006-_04 N side of nave from the NW KK020-060006-_05 W gable of nave interior KK020-060006-_06 E end of S aisle of nave KK020-060006-_07 S wall of S aisle of nave – tomb recesses KK020-060006-_08 S wall of S aisle of nave – piscina and tomb recess KK020-060006-_09 Crossing tower – W face KK020-060006-_10 Clerestorey windows (2 blocked) E end of N arcade of nave KK020-060006-_11 Cross - KK020-060007: Ogham stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060007-. Found in the foundations of the chancel of the medieval parish church of St Mary's Gowran (KK020-060006-), when the chancel was demolished in 1827 to make way for a C of I church (Brash 1872-3; 437; Dolan 2000, vol. 3, 112). The ogham stone (max H 1.51m; max. Wth 0.43m; D 0.33) bears a 'large cross potent, crookedly set out [and] cut on the original base of the inscribed face . . . Inscription cut, on two edges (up-up) and though chipped in places, on the whole in quite good condition' (Macalister 1945, 38, no. 32). Macalister recorded the inscription as: MAQI-ERAC[I]AS [MA]QI DIMAQ[A] MUC[OI-- and McManus (1997, 66) as: [MAQI]-ERAC[IAS] [MAQI] D[I]M[A]Q[A] MUC[O--. It is currently on display in the former C of I church. See attached photographs: KK020-060007-_02 Front and dexter side KK020-060007-_03 Scanned image of front and dexter side KK020-060007-_04 Front and sinister side Compiled by: Nora White and Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060008: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060008-. Fixed S of the tower, to the internal W wall of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A limestone graveslab (L 2.35m; Wth 0.89m; T 0.16m) which is decorated with a seven-armed segmental floriated cross in false relief within a recessed panel. There is a three bar knop at the base of the cross-head. The shaft rests on a stepped Calvary mount. There is an illegible inscription, which appears to have been deliberately defaced, along the base and dexter margin of the slab which continues in two lines across the face of the slab below the barred knop with the date 1686 beneath it. Beneath this in English capitals there is a later inscription in three lines across the slab with the date 1696 below this. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 404) was unable to read the earlier inscription but transcribed the later one as, ‘CHARLES AGAR BURGES DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 14TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1696’. Listed by Cockerham (2009, 363). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2019 - KK020-060009: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060009-. Centrally placed within a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A double effigial limestone tomb (L 2.2m; Wth 1.24m; H 0.91m) with two figures of knights carved in high relief. Rae (1970, 11-12) suggests it was commissioned by Piers Butler (d. 1539) to commemorate his two brothers, Edmond and Theobald, who both died before 1491 or 1501, though other possibilities are also discussed. Piers Butler and his wife Margaret FitzGerald (d. 1542) may have been responsible for commissioning several early 16th-century Butler tombs, commemorating past members of the family, in an effort to bolster the prestige of the MacRichard Butlers in their contested claim to the Earldom of Ormond (Rae 1970, 10; Moss 2014, 502). Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 170) describes the armour in detail. The heads have been cut away. Hunt suggests that this is the result of ‘an ancient repair than of the lack of a sufficient thickness of stone’ (ibid.). A portion of the slab carved with the upper legs of the dexter knight is missing and the surface of the lower portion of this knight’s armour is also missing. The surface of the sinister knight’s lower legs is broken off as is portion of this knight’s dexter leg around the knee. The lower legs and the dogs on which they rest, appear to be carved from a separate slab of limestone. There is a crack across the upper slab running across the head of the dexter knight and the upper body of the sinister knight and another between the two knights. The S side panel (L 2.05m; H 0.74m; D 0.14m) on the sinister side consists of two slabs. The first slab on the left is carved with a coat of arm bearing a simple cross which Hunt (ibid.) suggests is the ‘the shield of St Michael, which treasure the Butlers claimed to hold as an heirloom of the house’. The larger slab is carved with four sequential coats of arms. The first bears the indented Butler coat, the next a cross flanked by a ladder and a whipping post with scourges in the field, the next with a seamless garment with three dice beneath and the last with a crown of thorns flanked by a pole with sponge and a lance. The panel at the foot of the tomb (Wth 1.03m; H 0.75m) is decorated with a crucifixion scene, with Our Lady to the right of the crucified Christ and St John to the left, carved in false relief within a raised border. The N side panel (L 2.16m; H 0.74m) on the dexter side consists of two slabs. The left slab is carved with four sequential coats of arms. The first consists of a plain shield in a circle on a lattice ground, the next a shield bearing a heart pierced by two swords, the next a shield with nails between pinchers and a hammer and then a shield with a lion rampant impaling Butler (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 170). The rightmost slab is carved with a plain shield in a circle on a lattice ground. The base of this slab has been damaged, with a portion broken out. The panel at the head of the tomb (Wth 1.02m; H 0.74m; D 0.1m) is carved with two identical Butler coats with chiefs indented . The carving is largely on one slab, but it continues onto the edges of both side panels. See attached photographs: KK020-060009-_01 Tomb from above taken from N side KK020-060009-_02 E end panel at foot of tomb KK020-060009-_03 N side panel of tomb KK020-060009-_04 W end panel at head of tomb KK020-060009-_05 S side panel of tomb Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 August 2019 - KK020-060010: College, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060010-. In the SE angle of St Mary’s graveyard (KK020-060024-), c. 30m from the church (KK020-060006-). In 1312 a college was established to compensate Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick for the loss of any financial entitlement (advowson) from St Mary’s church, which were due to the patron, and which was now being given to the Dean and Chapter of St Canice’s, Kilkenny. The Dean and Chapter agreed to, ‘find, and support at our own expense, four priests to celebrate Masses in the said Church of the Blessed Mary for the said Edmund and Joan, his wife, and sons and daughters; and for all his ancestors and successors, living and dead’ (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 409). The college appears to have continued post-Reformation under Protestant chaplains and it is mentioned in the Regal Visitation Book of 1615 (ibid, 409-10). The priests, or chaplains, lived collegiately, in community and their residence is indicated as, ‘Colledge’ on White’s 1710/11 map of Gowran. In the early 20th century the foundations of the college are described as being ‘still traceable’ (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 409). Drennan (1965, 58-9) noted that, ‘Traces of this college can still be seen and its back wall was probably strengthened to make the wall of the present Protestant cemetery’. There was no trace of the building when inspected in 1992. See attached copy of White map 1710/11 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 March 2021 - KK020-060014: House - 17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060014-. On the N side of the Main Street at the E end of the town, opposite the main entrance to Gowran Castle. This two-storey, multi-period house has an armorial plaque (KK020-060015-) in its E gable. The plaque bears the initials J.K. and E.N. inscribed on a shield with the date of either 1630 or 1650. An early 18th-century map of Gowran shows a large two-storey house at roughly this location, the largest house in the town, belonging to a ‘Mr Bayly’ (White 1710/11). Described in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage [Reg No. 1231005] as, ‘a detached three-bay two-storey house, c. 1800, on a corner site with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch to centre ground floor. Extensively renovated and extended, c. 1875, comprising single-bay two-storey recessed end bay to left having canted bay window to ground floor, single-bay two-storey double-pile advanced flanking range to right incorporating fabric of original block with canted bay window to ground floor, single-bay two-storey parallel range along rear (north) elevation (forming projecting bay to side (east) elevation), and with two-storey canted bay window added to front. Extended, c.1900, comprising four-bay single-storey return to north. Hipped slate roofs (hipped and gabled double-pile (M-profile) slate roof to advanced flanking range) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Part ivy-clad unpainted fine roughcast lime rendered walls over rubble limestone construction with moulded rendered cornice to porch, and broken course tooled cut-limestone walls to return. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows) with cut-limestone sills, panelled mullions to canted bays windows supporting cornices, and one-over-one timber sash windows having some timber casement windows to canted bay windows (camber-headed window openings to return with cut-limestone sills, tooled limestone ashlar block-and-start surrounds, and one-over-one timber sash windows). Square-headed door opening to porch in tripartite arrangement in camber-headed recesses with glazed timber panelled door having fixed-pane flanking sidelights (camber-headed door opening to return with three cut-limestone steps, tooled limestone ashlar block-and-start surround, and timber panelled door)’. While externally it is largely 19th century in appearance, it is likely that the core of this house dates to the 17th century, that it is the same house as that drawn on the White map and that the armorial plaque provides the date for its construction. See attached: KK020-060014-_01 White map of Gowran (1710/11) with building highlighted. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 March 2021 - KK020-060015: Armorial plaque, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060015-. On the N side of the Main Street at the E end of the town, opposite the main entrance to Gowran Castle. An armorial plaque is in the E gable wall of a two-storey, multi-period house (KK020-060014-). The plaque bears the initials J.K. and E.N. inscribed on a shield with the date of either 1630 or 1650. An early 18th-century map of Gowran shows a large two-storey house at roughly this location, the largest house in the town, belonging to a ‘Mr Bayly’ (White 1710/11). It is likely that the plaque commemorates the construction of the house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 March 2021 - KK020-060016: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060016-. Immediately SW of Gowran, crossing a river which is a tributary of the River Barrow, which flows c. 5km to the E. Castle Ellis Bridge is c. 130m E of Castle Ellis townland. An early 18th-century map of Gowran indicated the ‘Long Bridg’ at this location (White 1710/11). A flat, three-arched bridge of roughly coursed limestone rubble with squared voussoirs on the W side and two cutwaters on either side. The parapet (H 1m) has round profile concrete capping. There are elongated, stone capped, approach walls. It is possible that this bridge contains 17th-century fabric and that the original bridge was subsequently widened. See attached: KK020-060016-_01 Bridge indicated on White map 1710/11. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 March 2021 - KK020-060017: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060017-. SW of Gowran, c. 40m N of a tributary of the River Barrow which flows c. 5km to the E, immediately W of the road leading from the town to Castle Ellis Bridge, in pasture. Not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map but indicated and annotated 'W' on the 1900 revision. According to local tradition it was known as 'St Patrick's Well' (pers. comm. Mary Moran, 7 July 1992) and this suggests it was a holy well. The well has been closed up and is no longer visible in the field. The 'Bastionfort Well' is located c. 160m to the W in the same field, though in a different townland. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 March 2021 - KK020-060023: Forge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060023-. Towards the E end of Gowran, on the N side of Main Street. A building annotated, ‘The Forge’ is indicated at this location on White’s map of Gowran, 1710/11. Though the map is early 18th century in date, it is likely that the forge dated to, at least, the 17th century. A two-storey four-bay house with three chimneys appears to occupy the location of the forge. - KK020-060024: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060024-. In the centre of Gowran, set back S of the Main Street. A rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 110m E-W; c. 50m N-S), enclosed by a stone wall, associated with the medieval parish church of St Mary (KK020-060006-). A rental account of Gowran which appears in the Calendar of Ormond Deeds c. 1550 mentions ‘the churchyard gate’ (Curtis 1941, vol. 5, 46 (25)). White’s map of Gowran, 1710/11 suggests there was a lane running up to the graveyard from the main street and this is clearly shown on the 1st (1839) ed. OS map where the street front is occupied on either side of the lane by a row of houses which had disappeared by the 1900 revision. The lane is preserved as the stone lined avenue leading to the N side graveyard gate. A medieval college (KK020-060010-) to accommodate four priests/chaplains was located in the SE angle of the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 March 2021 - KK020-060030: Kiln, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060030-. In 1998 service trenches associated with the refurbishment of the chancel of the medieval parish church (KK020-060006-) of Gowran were cut by hand through the present graveyard (KK020-060024-). Archaeological investigations (98E0112) in the SW quadrant of the graveyard revealed the remains of a medieval kiln, possibly for drying grain, which pre-dated the present graveyard wall and presumably lay outside the medieval church precinct (Pollock 2000, 114 (entry 343)). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 March 2021 - KK020-060031: Excavation - miscellaneous, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060031-. Testing was carried out in 2004 at the site of a proposed housing development (Excavation licence no. 04E0201). Portion of the town defences (KK020-060003-) were uncovered at the N end of the development. A number of other archaeological features were also uncovered including pits, ditches and medieval pottery. The features were preserved in situ by the utilisation of raft foundations for the houses. (McLoughlin 2004; 2009, 263, no. 1029) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 14 October 2013 - KK020-060032: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060032-. In the 13th-century church of St Mary (KK020-060006-) in Gowran, at the W end of the N aisle of the nave, against the N wall. A cadaver effigial chest tomb carved in false relief in limestone. It consists of a mensa (L 1.27m; Wth 0.92m; D 0.27m) with the skeletal figure of Death within a shroud, accompanied by a scythe and dart (Roe 1969, 16). The inscription in Latin, in Roman capitals begins in the upper sinister corner and continues both within the border (D 0.13m) around the edge of the mensa and for 5 lines across the top. It has been transcribed by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 406) as, ‘HIC JACET IACOBVS KEALY VIR HONESTISSIMI GENERIS BVRGENSIS GAVERANENSIS MVNICIPALIS, QVI OBIIT DIE [ ] ANNO DOMINI 1626 ET VXOR EIVS ELLENA NAISH QVAE ETIAM OBIIT DIE [ ] ANNO SALVTIS HVMANAE [ ] QVORVM ANIMABVS DEVS PROPITIETVR’. This roughly translates as, ‘Here lies James Kealy honourable burgess of the town of Gowran, who died on the [ ] day of the year of our Lord 1626 and his wife Ellen Nash, who also died on the [ ] day of the year of our Saviour [ ] on whose souls may the Lord have mercy’. The edge of the mensa is straight-sided (D 0.05m) before chamfering towards the base. The chest tomb is on a chamfered (Wth 0.17m) pedestal (L 2.3m; Wth 0.98m) with a straight edge at the base (D 0.08m). The front panel (L 1.98m; H 0.62m) is decorated with symbols of the Passion within four round-headed niches separated by fluted pillars. The easternmost niche contains a ladder, the five wounds represented by the hands, feet and heart of the crucified Christ, as well as a hammer, spear, axe and thirty pieces of silver shown in two vertical lines under a lantern on a crooked staff. In the sinister spandrel there is the head of a man, probably Judas, with a draw-string purse beneath it and the twisted cord handle around the man's neck. In the dexter spandrel there is a crescent moon with a face in profile. The next niche contains a plain cross with a crown of thorns around the cross-head and other symbols of the Passion on either side including Peter’s sword and an ear and a sceptre of reeds (used to mock Christ). The next niche contains a scourging pillar with ropes twisted around it, which is surmounted by a cock. The sinister spandrel has a sun and the dexter spandrel has a brush of birch twigs (used to beat Christ). In the westernmost niche there is Veronica’s towel bearing the face of Christ and beneath this there is a basin and jug and towel with which Pilate washed and dried his hands. Beneath this is a seamless robe. The carving in the dexter spandrel of this niche does not survive. The E side panel (Wth 0.94m; H 0.62m) is decorated with two round-headed niches separated by fluted pillars. The dexter niche contains the crucifixion with an INRI over the cross. The figure of Christ and St Peter in the adjacent niche are executed in low relief in a naïve style, with details incised. Christ rests on a curving Calvary mount with the skull and crossbones of Golgotha. St Peter, whose name is carved in Latin in the arch of the niche, holds a large key in his right hand and possibly a book in his left hand. His feet are both facing right and his is wearing an Irish mantle and possibly a felt hat. There is a rosette to the right of his head and a flower to the left. There is a flower or floral motif with each spandrel of the panel. The W panel is decorated with two round-headed niches separated by fluted pillars. The dexter niche contains the figure of St Patrick, whose name in Latin is carved in the arch of the niche. He is wearing ecclesiastical robes and a pointed mitre, his right arm is raised in blessing and his left arm holds a double-armed cross-staff with trefoil terminals. The dexter edge of the panel is broken off. The sinister niche contains a plain cross with expanded terminals which rises from the cross-bar of the H of a large HIS motif, beneath which are three stylised nails and two rosettes. There is a flower in the spandrel on either side. The theological context of the images of this monument is discussed by Cockerham (2009, 271-2). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 September 2019 - KK020-060033: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060033-. Fixed to the E wall of the N aisle of the nave of the S of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A rectangular polished limestone Renaissance wall monument (H 2.1m; Wth 1.41m) surmounted by a rectangular frieze with cornice (H 0.58m) and inverted shield pediment (H 0.69m), the latter with a shield within impaled with the arms of Keally on the dexter side and Nash over White on the sinister side. It rests on a plinth with projecting piers and moulded cornice and base, which in turn rests on an altar-type base (H 0.91m; Wth 2.09) with moulded altar top and plinth. The inscription, in English in raised Roman capitals, is on a recessed plaque in the centre of the monument. It is transcribed by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 406) as, ‘HERE LIETH THE BODIES OF MR. JAMES KEALLY, SOMETIME OF THE TOWNE OF GAWRAN, GENTLEMAN, WHO DIED ANO DNI 16[ ] AND OF MRS. ELLEN NASHE, HIS FIRST WIFE WHO DIED THE 30 DAY OF THE MONETH OF JVLY ANO DNI 1640 AND OF MRS. MARY WHITE, HIS SECOND WIFE, WHO DIED THE [ ] DAY OF THE MONETH OF [ ] ANO DNI 16[ ]. HE ERECTED THIS MONVMENT FOR HIMSELFE, HIS WIFVES AND CHILDREN IN THE MONETH OF DECEMBER ANO DNI 1646’. Also inscribed is, ‘ Both wifves at once alive he could not have: Both to injoy at once he made this grave’. The recess is square with a semi-circular head. On either side of the head there is an armorial shield, one bearing two lions rampant supporting a castle, triple-towered for Kealy; impaling three doves with olive branches in their beaks for Nash and the other shield has the same arms for Kealy, impaling a chevron between three roses for White (Carrigian 1905, vol. 3, 406). The central recess is framed by a projecting pier on either side and surmounted by a moulded entablature with raised flowers decorating the frieze. A similar wall monument (KK020-060038-) is located in the 17th-century mortuary chapel, attached externally to the S wall of the nave. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 September 2019 - KK020-060034: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060034-. Lying prostrate in the nave (6.5m S of N wall and 10m E of W wall) of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone coffin-shaped slab (L 1.42m; max. Wth near top 0.45m; max. surface Wth near top 0.37m; max. Wth at base 0.33m; max. surface Wth at base 0.28m; D 0.7m) with triangular top and chamfered upper edge (Wth 0.05m). The base of the slab is broken off. There is no visible decoration or inscription. Similar tapering slabs with triangular tops date to the 13th/14th-century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 September 2019 - KK020-060035: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060035-. Lying prostrate in the nave (6.5m from S wall and 6.5m W of W wall of tower) of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone slab (L 1.94m; Wth at top 0.56m; Wth at base 0.34m; D 0.15m) with straight sides. The top and base of the slab are broken and the surface is cracked and damaged, with a large crack running from the dexter corner to the middle of the sinister side. There is no visible decoration or inscription. Similar tapering slabs date to the 13th/14th-century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 September 2019 - KK020-060036: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060036-. Lying prostrate in the nave (2.65m N of the S wall and 6.8m W of the E wall of the S aisle) of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone slab (L 1.58m; max. Wth at top 0.53m; surface Wth at top 0.44m; max. Wth at base 0.4m; surface Wth at base 0.3m; D 0.15m) with a concave chamfer around the upper edge. The top sinister corner of the slab is missing. There is no visible decoration or inscription. Similar tapering slabs date to the 13th/14th-century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 September 2019 - KK020-060037: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060037-. Lying prostrate in the nave (1.3m from the S wall and 6.8m from the E wall of the S aisle) of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering conglomerate sandstone slab (L 1.48m; max. Wth at top 0.52m; surface Wth at top 0.42m; max. Wth at base 0.43m; surface Wth at base 0.31m; D 0.15m) with a chamfer (Wth 0.05m) around the upper edge. There is a small roughly square (dims. 0.08m x 0.07m) piece missing on the upper dexter edge of the slab. There is no visible decoration or inscription. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 September 2019 - KK020-060038: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060038-. Fixed to the E wall of a 17th-century mortuary chapel, attached externally to the S wall of the nave of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A rectangular polished limestone Renaissance wall monument (H 3.9m; Wth 1.99m) surmounted by a rectangular frieze with cornice (H 0.69m) and inverted shield pediment (H 0.63m), the latter with an armorial shield within impaled with the arms of Kealy on the dexter side and Hackett on the sinister side. It rests on a plinth with projecting piers, now missing, and moulded cornice and base, which in turn rests on an altar-type base (H 0.85m; Wth 1.99) with moulded altar top and plinth. The inscription, in English in raised Roman capitals, is on a recessed plaque in the centre of the monument. It reads, ‘HEERE LIETH THE BODIES OF M[R.] PEIRS KEALLY SOMTIME OF THE TOWNE OF GAWRAN, BVRGES. DIED THE 1 DAY OF THE MONTH OF JANVARY ANNO DOMINI, 1648, AND OF ALSON, HIS WIFE, DAVGHTER TO NICHOLAS HACKETT, GENTLEMAN, WHO DIED THE [ ] DAY OF THE MONTH OF [ ] ANNO DOMINI 16 [ ]’. Also incised below this in upper and lower case script, in four lines, is, ‘Rest together the wish of man and wife: To rest intomb’d resembeling theire past life. Though death subscribed to theire divorce: Theire remnants wall’d are from divisions force’ (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 408). The recess is square with a semi-circular head. On either side of the head there is an armorial shield, on the dexter side the Kealy arms, wavy, on a chevron, three cantons and on the sinister side the Hackett arms bearing three hakes (Carrigian 1905, vol. 3, 407). The central recess was framed by a projecting pier on either side, that on the dexter side is missing, and surmounted by a moulded entablature, the frieze of which is missing. A similar wall monument (KK020-060033-) is located within the church, at the E end of the N aisle of the nave. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 September 2019 - KK020-060039: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060039-. Lying on shelving within the 17th-century mortuary chapel adjoining externally the S wall of the nave of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. Two pieces, which fit together, of a broken straight-sided limestone graveslab (Tot. surviving H 1.02m; upper portion with cross-head H 0.67m; Wth 0.56m; lower portion with cross-shaft H 0.57m; Wth 0.4m)decorated in raised relief with a seven-armed floriated cross with a two bar-knop at the base of the cross-head. There was a raised border (Wth 0.09m) around the edge, but only a portion of this survives on the sinister side. The broken upper portion bears part of the cross-head and sinister margin and the lower portion the cross-shaft and sinister margin. This may be the slab described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 405) as, ‘A very large floor-slab, or table of altar-tomb, now broken, with an eight-pointed cross down the centre, and dating from about the year 1600, has the following Old English inscription, in relief, down one of the sides: Hic jacet Richard Nase et Ellana Shortall exor ei q obiit [ ] die mensis [ ]. This is the entire of the original inscription. The tomb lies in the nave’. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 September 2019 - KK020-060040: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060040-. In the 17th-century mortuary chapel adjoining externally the S wall of the nave of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone slab (max. L 0.84m; max. Wth at top 0.39m; surface Wth at top 0.32m; max. Wth at base 0.29m; surface Wth at base 0.22m; T 0.12) with a chamfer around the upper edge (Wth 0.035m). The slab is broken horizontally along the top. It is decorated with an incised cross but this is very worn and only the cross-shaft and traces of the cross-base are evident. The underside of the slab appears to have a concave profile suggesting it may have been a tomb lid. Similar tapering slabs date to the 13th/14th-century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 September 2019 - KK020-060041: Armorial plaque, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060041-. In the 17th-century mortuary chapel adjoining externally the S wall of the nave of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A rectangular limestone plaque (H 0.63m; Wth 0.49m; T 0.14) with deep classical moulding, cyma recta and ovolo, on three sides, though straight-sided along the base and lower dexter side (L 0.25m). The moulding on both sides projects out towards the base. It appears to have designed to rest on a pedestal, partially built into a corner or recess. The armorial shield is very worn. Beneath it, within three lines is an inscription in raised Roman capitals, ‘THE ARMES OF RICHARD PEMBR AND JOHAN RAGG’. The upper edge of the plaque has been damaged, giving a nibbled effect and a rectangular notch (dims. 0.09m x 0.04m) has been cut out along the dexter edge. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 September 2019 - KK020-060042: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060042-. Lying on shelving within the 17th-century mortuary chapel adjoining externally the S wall of the nave of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. The upper portion of a very thick, tapering sandstone slab (L 0.75m; Wth at top 0.53m; Wth at base 0.48m; surface Wth top and base 0.4m; T 0.3m). It is chamfered around the top edge and then roughly dressed straight-sides. The slab is decorated in false relief with a very unusual cross-head. The cross-head consists of a cross shaft and arms of deeply incised parallel lines (Wth 0.06m) terminating in an incised circle (diam. 0.06m). Within the cross-arms, where they meet the shaft there is an incised rectangle (dexter L 0.06m; H 0.09m; sinister L 0.09m; H 0.07m) with diagonal lines. On either side of the top of the cross there is an incised circle (diam. 0.06m) and below each there is an incised lozenge (H 0.09-0.11m; Wth 0.06-0.1m). Below the cross-arm on the dexter side there is an incised circle (diam. 0.07m) and there was probably a corresponding circle on the other side of the cross-shaft but it doesn’t survive. It is possible that this is the upper portion of a stone, now broken, described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 406) as a, ‘pillar stone 5½ ft. [c. 1.67m] high, 1 ft. [c. 0.3m] wide and the same in thickness, with an incised cross of rare and ancient design, near the top. It now stands upright in the floor of the nave near the west gable’. As the stone tapers the width may have been taken on the lower portion. Also Carrigan’s description suggests that the stone was embedded in the floor of the nave and thus the total height was probably greater than c. 1.67m. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 September 2019 - KK020-060043: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060043-. Centrally placed towards the E end within a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. An effigial limestone tomb (L 2.16m; Wth 1.06m; H 1.2m) with a Butler knight carved in high relief. Rae (1970, 10-11) suggests that this tomb may be a cenotaph to James MacEdmond MacRichard Butler (d. 1487) who was married to Sabhdh MacMurrough Kavanagh, though he is actually buried at the Augustinian friary in Callan. This suggestion is based on the presence of the lion rampant on the Butler shield which he speculates may be associated with the MacMurroughs. However, Rae actually prefers James’ brother Walter (d. 1506) as the subject of the tomb, postulating that the lion rampant could be related to Walter’s mother, Giles O’Carroll (though this also applies for James) or be a derivation from the arms of the family of Walter’s wife, the O’Mores of Laois (ibid.). Piers Butler and his wife Margaret FitzGerald (d. 1542) may have been responsible for commissioning this and several other early 16th-century Butler tombs, commemorating past members of the family, in an effort to bolster the prestige of the MacRichard Butlers in their contested claim to the Earldom of Ormond (Moss 2014, 502). Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 169) describes the armour in detail. According to Hunt (ibid.), ‘the front part of the head and face were restored on this figure, but the present replacement does not belong to this monument’. There is a bird carved on the cushion on either side of the head. The knight’s feet rest on an animal that appears to be a lion as it has a distinctive mane. The upper sinister corner of the mensa is broken off and the legs of the knight are largely missing. The mensa is broken along the dexter side with a crack extending across the lower portion of the slab, through the sword and legs of the knight. The N side panel (L 2.16m; H 0.98m; T 0.14m) consists of two slabs carved with ogee-headed niches with foliate finials. The leftmost slab has four niches, containing from left to right St Philip, though not clear he is presumably holding loaves in his left hand and holding his robe with his right hand; St Bartholomew with a flesher’s knife in his right hand and a book in his left; St Matthew with a sword upright in his right hand and a book in his left hand and St James Minor carrying a club in his left hand and holding his robe with his right hand. This slab is cracked vertically down the middle. In the W end the shorter slab has two niches containing St Simon with a sparth in his right hand and a book in his left and St Thaddeus with a pole-arm in his right hand and a book in his left. This slab is cracked at an angle running across the W ogee and beneath St Thaddeus’ head. All the apostles are wearing full-length robes, the lower portion of which, above the feet, is broken off on all but the westernmost figure. The E end panel (Wth 1.05m; H 0.98m; T 0.13m) at the foot of the tomb consists of a single slab with the design of three ogee-headed niches with foliate finials continuing onto the end of the two side panels. The figures within the niches from left to right are, Christ as Judge crowned and showing his wounds, an archbishop blessing with his right hand and with a cross-staff in his left hand and a female saint with a veil and wimple, holding a book in her left hand and holding her robe with the right. The S side panel (L 2.16m; H 0.98m; T 0.15m) consists of a single slab decorated with six ogee-headed niches with foliate finials. The figures from left to right are, St Peter with his keys in his left hand and a book in his right; St Paul with his sword upright in his right hand and a book in his left; St Andrew with a saltire cross in this left hand and a book in his right; St James Major with a scallop shell in his pilgrim’s hat, a purse hanging from a belt around his waist and a book in his left hand, his right arm appears to be raised in greeting; St John with a palm-frond in his left hand and a book in his right and St Thomas holding a spear in his right hand and a book in is left. The panel is cracked vertically through the left side of the figure of St Paul. The W end panel (Wth 1.06m; H 0.98m; T 0.1m) at the head of the tomb consists of a single slab with the design of two Butler coats of arms continuing onto the end of the two side panels. Both display a chief indented, though the right shield is impaled with a lion rampant turned to sinister. See attached photographs: KK020-060043-_01 Effigial tomb from above from E end KK020-060043-_02 S side panel KK020-060043-_03 E panel at foot of tomb KK020-060043-_04 N side panel KK020-060043-_05 W panel at head of tomb KK020-060043-_06 Upper portion of effigial tomb from above from N side Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 August 2019 - KK020-060044: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060044-. Inserted into the internal N wall of the tower of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A limestone graveslab (L 2.16m; Wth 0.8m) which is decorated with a seven-armed floriated cross, with a barred knop at the base of the cross-head. The shaft rests on a curving Calvary mount. The inscription in Latin in raised black letter script, runs within a margin around the edge of the slab, starting on the sinister side, in the lower sinister corner. It is transcribed by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 404) as, ‘Hic jacet Patrici Purcell quoda costabulari de Gowran q obiit A˚.Dⁱ. Mcccccxlv et Johana Roth uxor eius q obiit A˚.Dⁱ. Mcccccxl’. It translates as, here lies Patrick Purcell constable of Gowran who died 1545 and Johanna Roth his wife who died 1540. Listed by Cockerham and Harris (2001, 181). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2019 - KK020-060045: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060045-. Fixed to the internal W wall, on the N side, of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A limestone graveslab (L 0.87m; Wth 0.55m) with an incised inscription in Roman capitals, in English, across the surface. It reads: HEARE LIETH THE BODY OF SUSANNA WIFE OF JAMES AGAR OF GAWRAN ESQᴿ AND DAUGHTER TO JAMES ALEXANDER GENT WHO DIED THE 24TH DAY OF MARCH 1696. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2019 - KK020-060046: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060046-. Lying on the floor in the NW angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A long narrow slab (total L 2.27m; upper surface L 2.18m; total Wth 0.46m; D 0.33m) which is cracked across the middle of the slab where a triangular segment has been cut out of the slab. It is fractured horizontally and vertically at the cross-head, with fissue cracking on the suface around the floriated shaft. It is decorated with an incised cross consisting of a three-armed cross-head with fleur-de-lis terminals, a small circular knop below the cross-head and a larger circular knop below this, with a fleur-de-lis springing from a stem at the top of the knop on each side of the shaft. The cross-shaft terminates with a barred knop, a fleur-de-lis springing from either side of the shaft, another barred knop and a larger fleur-de-lis at the base. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2019 - KK020-060047: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060047-. Lying on the floor in the NW angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering slab (L 1.83m; total Wth towards top 0.57m; total Wth at base 0.42; surface Wth towards top 0.48m; surface Wth at base 0.33m; D 0.12m) which is cracked across the slab towards the base. There are has been some damage to the upper dexter side consisting of a number of small circular depressions and random incised lines. The head of the slab is missing. It is decorated with an incised cross, a fleur-de-lis at the top of the cross-shaft is probably the lower arm of the cross-head. The shaft terminates in a large fleur-de-lis. The upper edge of the sides and base of the slab has a slightly hollow chamfered (Wth 0.-6-0.07m). Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2019 - KK020-060048: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060048-. Lying on the floor in the NW angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering slab (L 1.76m; Wth midway 0.47m including chamfer; total Wth at base 0.42 including chamfer; 0.34m above chamfer; D 0.21m) which is broken across the middle of the slab (upper portion L 0.76m; Wth 0.44m; lower portion L 1m; Wth 0.47m tapering to 0.42m) below the knop. The dexter side of the slab is cracked and damaged in places. The upper portion of the slab is particularly badly damaged, with the edge completely broken away. The slab is decorated with an incised eight-arm interlaced cross below which there is a fleur-de-lis above a barred knop with rounded ends. The cross-shaft terminates with a similar, though slightly smaller barred knop and a large fleur-de-lis. In all cases the fleur-de-lis is more rounded than pointed. There upper edge of the slab has a slightly hollow chamfer (Wth 0.07m). There is an incised inscription in Lombardic script along the sinister edge of the upper surface of the slab. It is transcribed by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 405) as, ‘HIC JACET MAURICI CAS’ and translated as, ‘Here lies Maurice Cas’. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2019 - KK020-060049: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060049-. Lying on the floor in the NW angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. The upper portion of a tapering slab (L 1.4m; Wth at top 0.52m; Wth at base 0.4m; D 0.24m) It is decorated with a four-armed cross with rounded fleur-de-lis terminals, with a smaller four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals positioned diagonal to, and crossing over and under the arms of, the main cross. Beneath the cross-head there is a barred knop with rounded ends from which a stem with a fleur-de-lis terminal springs on either side of the cross-shaft. The upper edge of the slab is moulded. There is no visible inscription. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2019 - KK020-060050: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060050-. Lying on the floor at the base of the N wall of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone slab (L 1.72m; overall Wth at top 0.48m; overall Wth at base 0.38m; Wth at top surface 0.39m; Wth at base surface 0.32m; D 0.23m), the upper edge of which is chamfered (Wth 0.0.5m). The slab is decorated with an incised cross consisting of a very worn seven-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals within a circle. The cross-shaft terminates simply, with a curving knop above a pointed terminal. There is no visible inscription. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2019 - KK020-060051: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060051-. Fixed to the N wall of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A limestone effigy (L 2.17m; Wth 0.71m; T 0.19m) of a woman in raised relief, with straight sides (T 0.06m). The slab was broken horizontally across the waist of the woman, below her elbows, but has been repaired. The effigy, whose head is resting on a pillow, is described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 168-9) as wearing, ‘a heart-shaped head-dress and pleated gown with V-neck falling in folds to the feet. Her poke sleeves show the tight buttoned cuffs of the kirtle beneath. The girdle is worn high up under the bosom and has a long pendant decorated with ‘S’ and flowers. The figure is closely related to that of Margaret Fitzgerald in St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny. The details of the elaborate reticulated head-dress with its central ornamented kerchief are almost identical. Slightly less can be seen of the laced cuffs of the kirtle, and the details of the belt vary’. Hunt dates this effigy to the early 16th century (ibid. 169). He suggests that effigy may represent Sadhbh MacMurrough Kavanagh, wife of James MacEdmond MacRichard Butler (died. 1487), and that the ‘S’ pattern on the pendant portion of the girdle might be an indication of a royal English distinction (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060052: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060052-. Lying on the floor in the SW angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A straight-sided limestone slab (L 1.9m; Wth 0.69m) in relatively good condition, with some cracks towards the base of the slab around the top of the Calvary mount. The slab is decorated with a banded seven-armed floriated cross in raised relief. Beneath the cross head there is a two-barred knop on the cross-shaft with a horizontal stylised spear to the dexter side and a horizontal nail with downward bending point to the sinister side. The middle of the cross-shaft passes through a rectangle and rests on a stepped Calvary mount. The raised inscription in Latin, in black letter script, begins in the upper dexter margin and runs along the dexter side. The ‘M’ of the date is the last letter on the dexter side and the remainder of the date ‘ccccclv’ is carved within a panel on the Calvary mount. The inscription was transcribed by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 405) as, ‘Hic jacet edmdu brenagh et Isabella Wale uxor ei q. obiit A.D. M. ccccclv’ and translated as, ‘Here lie Edmund Brenagh [Anglice Walsh], and Isabella Wale his wife, who died A.D. 1555’. It is listed by Cockerham and Harris (2001, 182). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 August 2019 - KK020-060053: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060053-. Lying on the floor in the SW angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone slab (overall L 1.71m; overall Wth at top 0.5m; overall Wth at base 0.32m; surface L 1.64m; surface Wth at top 0.39m; surface Wth at base 0.22m; T 0.25m) with a moulded surround consisting of a double roll-moulding on a chamfered plane around the upper edge. There is some cracking across the surface of the slab on the dexter side, with one crack extending across the slab beneath the knop on the cross-shaft. The slab is decorated with an incised cross. The cross-head consists of an interlaced eight-armed floriated cross with a circle at the base of the fleur-de-lys. The fleur-de-lys are very rounded, almost appearing as trefoils. Beneath the cross-head there is a circular knop with a fleur-de-lys rising above it on the cross-shaft. Springing from the knop there is a curving stem on either side of the cross-shaft terminating with a fleur-de-lys, with a smaller fleur-de-lys on a stem springing upward from the main stem. The cross-shaft terminates with a fleur-de-lys, above which there is a rectangular barred knop with rounded ends, with a fleur-de-lys on a stem springing from the base of the knop on either side. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 August 2019 - KK020-060054: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060054-. Lying on the floor in the SW angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A limestone slab (L 2.24m; Wth 1.03m; T 0.12m), straight-sided around the upper edge and chamfered (Wth 0.09m) towards the base. The slab had been broken in a roughly diagonal line from the upper dexter side to the Calvary mount and then across the sinister side. Most of the slab including the cross-head, shaft and upper and sinister side is in one piece. However, the dexter side is in four pieces and the lower sinister side had also been broken off. These pieces have all been reassembled. It is decorated with a cross is raised relief and there is a raised rectangular panel on the dexter side of the cross-shaft. The cross consists of a seven-armed banded segmental floriated cross-head with a moulded knop on the cross-shaft beneath. The cross-shaft terminates on a triangular Calvary mount. The inscription in Latin, in black letter script, begins on the upper dexter side and continues within a margin along the dexter side and onto the surface of the slab in two vertical lines beside the cross-head. The margin across the top and along the sinister side appears to be uncarved. The inscription is transcribed by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 406) as, ‘Hic jacet Richard Nase et Ellana Shortall uxor ei q obiit [ ] die mensis [ ]’. This translates as, Here lies Richard Nase and Ellana Shortall his wife who died the [ ] day of the month of [ ]. Though the date has not been carved, stylistically this slab dates to the 16th/early 17th century. It is listed by Cockerham and Harris (2001, 187). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 August 2019 - KK020-060055: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060055-. Lying on the floor near the centre of the S wall of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering slab (L 2.04m; Wth at top 0.55m; overall Wth at base 0.42m; surface Wth at base 0.34m; T 0.19m) with a chamfer along the upper edge of the sides and the base (Wth 0.05m). The slab is broken horizontally below the knop (upper portion L 1.98m; lower portion L 1.01m). The slab is decorated with an incised cross. The cross-head consists of a four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals and a lozenge at the centre. It is enclosed within a double-lined quatrefoil, with a triple curving motif projecting inwardly at each indent of the quatrefoil. Beneath the cross-head there is a concentric circular knop. The cross-shaft terminates on a simple stepped base. There is no visible inscription. It is very similar to another graveslab (KK020-060057-) within the church. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 August 2019 - KK020-060056: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060056-. Lying on the floor near the centre of the S wall of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering slab (max. L 1.72m; surface L 1.61m; overall Wth at top 0.55m; overall Wth at base 0.31m; surface Wth at top 0.44m; surface Wth at base 0.22m; T 0.18m) with a chamfer (Wth 0.08m) around the upper edge. The slab is broken roughly horizontally into three pieces, the upper portion (L 0.6m), the centre portion (L of sinister side 0.28m) and lower portion (L of dexter side 0.57m). The upper surface of the upper dexter side of the lower portion has broken off. The slab is decorated with an incised cross. The cross-head is quite worn and the surface somewhat spalled. It consists of a four-armed banded cross with fleur-de-lis terminals. There is a circular knop below the cross-head and another one above the cross-base. The cross-shaft terminates in a simple fleur-de-lis. There is no visible inscription. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 August 2019 - KK020-060057: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060057-. Lying on the floor in the SE corner of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. The upper portion of a tapering slab (max. L 1.76m; surface L 1.22m; overall Wth at top 0.61m; overall Wth at base 0.58m; surface Wth at top 0.54m; surface Wth at base 0.51m; T 0.23m) with a chamfer (Wth 0.06m) around the upper edge. The slab is broken roughly horizontally about two-thirds down the cross-shaft. The slab is decorated with an incised cross. The cross-head consists of a four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals and a lozenge at the centre. It is enclosed within a double-lined quatrefoil, with a triple curving motif projecting inwardly at each indent of the quatrefoil. Beneath the cross-head there is a concentric circular knop. There is no visible inscription. It is very similar to another graveslab (KK020-060055-) within the church. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 August 2019 - KK020-060058: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060058-. Lying on the floor in the SE corner of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone slab (max. L 0.97m; surface L 0.91m; overall Wth at top 0.37m; overall Wth at base 0.33m; surface Wth at base 0.25m; T 0.19m) with a chamfer (Wth 0.08m) around the upper edge. The top edge of the slab including most of the upper arm of cross, the upper portion of the sinister edge and the base of the slab are missing. The slab is decorated with an incised cross, the lower portion of the shaft and base of which are missing. The cross-head consists of a four-armed cross with trefoil terminals and a lozenge with four leaves at the centre. Beneath the cross-head there is an oblong knop. There is no visible inscription. It is very similar to another graveslab (KK020-060055-) within the church. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 September 2019 - KK020-060059: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060059-. Lying prostrate in the SE angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering limestone effigy of a knight (L 1.65m; Wth at top 0.62m; Wth at base 0.5m; T 0.2m) whose head, upper body and sword are carved in raised relief. The slab is defined around by a roll-moulding and the edge of the slab is chamfered (Wth 0.06m). The upper portion and a section of the lower portion survives, the mid portion and base are missing. The figure is described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 168), the head rests on, ‘a rectangular cushion with tassels at the points, and rosettes on either side of the head. He wears a surcoat and the large bulbous head represents a mail coif. A floriated cross in high relief lies upon his breast and runs down the stone’. Hunt dates the effigy to the 13th or early 14th century (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060060: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060060-. Lying prostrate in the SE angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering limestone head-slab of a knight (L 1.69m; overall Wth at base 0.44m; T 0.28m) whose head is within a hollow in false relief and the cross is carved in raised relief. The edges of the slab are chamfered (Wth 0.09m). The man appears to be an ecclesiastic as he seems to have a tonsure, with a fringe of hair on either side of rather pronounced ears (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 167-8). The cross-head is very worn. There are leaves springing from above the mid-point of the cross-shaft, which itself terminates with a fleur-de-lys. Hunt dates the slab to the 13th century (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060061: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060061-. Lying on the floor in the NE corner of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A badly damaged straight-sided limestone slab, broken horizontally into three pieces. The surface of the upper sinister portion is broken away. The dexter side of the slab is missing as is the lower sinister corner. The slab is decorated with a worn cross in raised relief. It has a simple four-armed cross-head with fleur-de-lis terminals. There is an oval knop beneath the cross-head. The cross-shaft appears to terminate without a cross-base. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 September 2019 - KK020-060062: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060062-. Fixed N of centre to the internal face of the E gable of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A limestone effigial tomb lid (L 2.02m; Wth 0.64m; T 0.14m) carved with a female figure in flat relief. The dexter side is carved with a double fillet roll-moulding while the sinister side is crudely dressed. The base of the slab, across the feet of the figure, is broken but has been repaired. This is described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 168) as possibly the effigy of Eleanor de Bohun, c. 1338-1344 who was the niece of King Edward II. Hunt suggests that the tomb was carved while she was married to James Butler, whose possible effigy (KK020-060064-) is also within the church. Following James’ death she remarried and died at Shere in England in 1363 (ibid.). The effigy could also represent Joan, wife of Edmund, the first Earl of Carrick and, though less likely, this would date the tomb to c. 1320 (ibid.). Hunt describes the figure as wearing a long robe, ‘the left hand holds the mantle cord on the breast. She wears a crown-like head-dress, a variant of the pill-box, with a barbe and two circular bosses, one on each side – perhaps nets for the hair over the ears. There is a dragonesque animal beneath her feet. Her head lies on a double rectangular cushion’ (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060063: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060063-. Fixed to the centre to the internal face of the E gable of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering limestone effigial tomb lid (L 1.94m; overall Wth at top 0.73m; overall Wth at base 0.58m; T 0.3) carved with a male figure in raised relief. The upper edge of the slab is chamfered (Wth 0.06m) and the remainder straight-sided. There is an inscription in Lombardic script on the chamfered sides which reads: DUM VIXIT SANUS RADOULFUS ERAT JULIANUS DUM VIXIT SOSPES R[C?]UPTIS FUERAT PIUS HOSPES AD MCCLIII˚ XIIII K.K. APRIL (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 167). Hunt roughly translates this as, ‘while he lived, Radoulfus was generous to those in need. He died on 19 March 1253’ (ibid.). The figure is described by Hunt as, ‘lying with his head upon a rectangular cushion. His hands are disposed one above the other on his breast. He is vested in a finely pleated alb, with a broad orphrey close to the bottom hem. He wears a long chasuble rather schematically shown with numbers of shallow folds in a chevron pattern over the front, and covering the upper arm to the elbow. The ends of the stole show beneath it and there is a maniple of the same fashion with slightly expanded ends. Under the elbows, where the alb shows beneath the chasuble, the upper part can be seen folding over the position of the tucking girdle. Although much of the neck is missing, part of the broad, upstanding apparel of the amice is visible, with a circular bulge in front representing the cross-over of the amice often shown in this position. It is much worn and no details are shown on the surface. It might be taken to represent a logion, a jewel sometimes seen at this period at the top of the chasuble of bishops, but this would be most irregular on a priest who would not wear one. On his feet are pointed shoes’ (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060064: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060064-. Fixed S of centre to the internal face of the E gable of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A limestone effigial tomb lid (L 2.09m; Wth 0.61m; T 0.18-27m) carved with a male figure in flat relief. The dexter side is carved with a double fillet roll-moulding while the thicker sinister side has a very rough surface. This is described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 168) as possibly the effigy of James Butler, first Earl of Ormond, who died in 1337/8. He suggests that a similar slab (KK020-060062-) in the church probably represents his wife, Eleanor de Bohun (ibid.). The effigy could also represent Edmund, the first Earl of Carrick, who died in 1321 (ibid.). The figure is described by Hunt as wearing, ‘a long gown falling in straight folds to above the ankles and with medium wide sleeves below which the sleeves of the kirtle show at the wrists. His left hand lies upon his breast and his right by his side. On his feet are shoes with a wide opening over the instep, fastened with buckles and a strap’ (ibid.). There is an open-mouthed stylised dragonesque figure beneath the feet. The head, with hair cut square below the ears, lies upon a double rectangular cushion. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060065: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060065-. Fixed into the eastern most window of the S wall of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A small tapering limestone effigial tomb lid (L 0.98m; Wth at top 0.42m; Wth at base 0.3m; T 0.18m) with chamfered edges (Wth 0.05m), carved with a miniature male figure in raised relief. The base of the slab is slightly broken and the lower sinister upper surface damaged. Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 167) assigns a mid-13th century date to this effigy and describes the figure as, ‘wearing a long straight gown. On the breast he holds some object, perhaps a vial or box, so that this may represent a heart burial. The head rest on a pillow and hair curls down over the ears’. In medieval funerary tradition the heart was sometimes buried in a separate place to the body and in such cases the heart burials are often commemorated by miniature or half-length effigies (ibid. 135). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060066: Tomb - effigial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060066-. Fragments of an effigy, including two pieces of the head which fit together, where identified by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 168; vol. 2, plate 35) in St Mary’s parish church (KK020-060006-), Gowran. Hunt (ibid.) describes them as, ‘the head of a civilian with hair curling below the ears, well-drawn and in high relief. There is a part of a moulding above the head. Beside it lies another piece of stone carved with an animal of which the left front leg and part of the body remain. On its back is part of a shoe of a civilian. The hair style of the head suggests a date at the end of the thirteenth century’. Fragments from the church are stored on-site in the Keally mortuary chapel (projecting from the S wall of the nave) and in the former C of I church at St Mary’s. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 August 2019 - KK020-060067: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060067-. In the 13th-century church of St Mary, Gowran (KK020-060006-). Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 405) as a, 'slightly injured floor-slab, with an inscription, in Roman capitals, thus: HERE LIETH [THE] BODY OF MARGRE[T] WIFE TO WILLIAM BVTLER, GENT. AND DAUGHTER TO JOHN BRADSTREETT, WHO DIED YE TH[IRD] DAY OF MAY, 1685'. He gives the location as, 'the third division of the north aisle' (ibid.). This graveslab may be among the slabs and architectural fragments currently stored in the 17th-century mortuary chapel adjoining the external S wall of the nave. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 September 2019 - KK020-060068: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060068-. In the 13th-century church of St Mary, Gowran (KK020-060006-). Described by Loeber (1981, 292) as a graveslab, which survives largely intact, commemorating John and Joseph Kelly and dating to 1678. This graveslab may be among the slabs and architectural fragments currently stored in the 17th-century mortuary chapel adjoining the external S wall of the nave. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 September 2019 - KK020-060069: Post office, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060069-. Towards the E end of Gowran, on the S side of Main Street. A building annotated, ‘Post Office’ is indicated at this location on White’s map of Gowran, 1710/11. Though the map is early 18th century in date, it is likely that the post office dates to the 17th century, as a post office was established in the town between 1659 and 1682 (Hughes 2015, 67, map 1.2). During this period George Warbuton, a senior postmaster official in Dublin from c. 1667-1703, was also elected as MP to the Irish parliament from Gowran in 1692-3 (ibid., 57, 64-8). The plot which appears to be the location of the post office is currently vacant. See attached: KK020-060069-_01 White's map of 1710/11 with the post office highlighted. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 March 2021 - KK020-060070: Font, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-060070-. A 13th-century font (see CW011-016006-) of Kilkenny limestone currently located inside the S entrance door of the nave of the Cathedral of St Laserian (CW011-016005-), Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow. It has a large square bowl decorated with rounded arcades resting on a large, possibly modern, drum shaped base. According to Pike (1989, 574) this font, described as 'decorated with heavy Romanesque flutes, ten on each side, Fleur-de-lis decoration on the top surface', was moved to the cathedral from St Mary's Church (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 March 2021 - KK020-081: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-081----. In tillage. Visible as large cropmark enclosure on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (113) 24, ASIAP (113) 23) taken by Mick Moore 22 July 2000. The cropmark is also clearly visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. It appears to be an irregular enclosure (dims. c. 60m NE-SW; c. 54m E-W) with an outer enclosure (dims. c. 65m N-S; c. 70m E-W). The N enclosing element is not visible as there is different vegetation in this area which appears to be marshy scrub. The inner and outer enclosing elements are not concentric, varying in distance apart from c.6-14m. Two cropmarks run E, SE from the E and SE quadrant of the outer enclosing element, running c. 20m and c. 40m respectively to an outer curving cropmark arcing from NE-S and possibly part of a related field system. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 January 2020 - KK020-120: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKK020-120----. On the NW outskirts of Gowran and immediately inside the medieval town defences. During an archaeological excavation (06E0625) carried out in advance of the construction of the ‘Ogenty’ housing development on the Kilkenny road, Gowran, a ditch barrow (diam. c. 9m) with a central burial pit was noted (Ó Drisceoil 2009, 263). The W edge of the barrow was subsequently excavated, revealing a shallow round-bottomed fosse (Wth 0.9m; D 0.35m) (Delaney 2023, 6.3; excavation no. 21E0385). There fills of the fosse were sterile (ibid.). Ref.: Delany, D. 2023 Archaeological excavation at Ogenty, Kilkenny Road, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Final report. Excavation licence number: 21E0385. An Bord Pleanala reference: ABP-306914-19. Dominic Delany & Associates. Unpublished report Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 19 April 2023 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) - Gowran House, house, 1843–1853, Regional interest, registry number 12310005, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310005. Detached four-bay two-storey house, extant 1853, on an irregular plan including three-bay two-storey block centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch to ground floor abutting single-bay two-storey double-pile advanced end bay (east); single-bay two-storey double-pile recessed end bay (west); four-bay two-storey block (north-east) with six-bay single-storey wing (north-west). Bitumen felt-covered hipped slate roof abutting hipped and pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (east); hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (west), terracotta ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves with cast-iron downpipes; hipped slate roof (north-east) with ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on axis with ridge having capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipe; pitched slate roof (north-west) with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls coursed rubble limestone walls with concealed margined tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners; rendered walls (north-east) on rendered base; snecked tooled limestone walls (north-west) with margined tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with limestone flagged threshold, timber mullions, and rusticated limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on rusticated cut-limestone keystone framing timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (north-east) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Camber-headed door openings (north-west) with margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing timber panelled doors. Segmental-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and margined tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Set back from line of street with margined cut-limestone piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron gate. - Gowran Courthouse, court house, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310006. Detached three-bay two-storey courthouse, built 1855-6, on a rectangular plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Derelict, 1973. Restored, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, central chimney stack on axis with ridge having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on cut-limestone cornice. Drag edged limestone ashlar wall to front (north) elevation on moulded cushion course on benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone plinth with drag edged rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners supporting cornice on blind frieze; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central door opening approached by flights of three cut-granite steps with cut-limestone surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone rounded sills, and cut-limestone monolithic surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front. - House, 1740–1760, Regional interest, registry number 12310007, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310007. Attached three-bay two-storey house, c.1750, possibly originally detached with three-bay single-storey recessed flanking lateral wing to left, and two-bay single-storey recessed flanking lateral wing with half-attic to right having elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Reroofed, c.1950. Refenestrated. Hipped roof to main block with pitched roofs to wings having replacement artificial slate, c.1950, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge, slightly sproketed eaves, and replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1950, on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with painted rendered quoins to ends, and band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed window opening to lateral wing to right with no sill, and two-over-two timber sash window. Round-headed door opening with two cut-granite steps having cast-iron bootscraper, moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door having decorative fanlight. Segmental-headed door opening to wing to left with timber panelled door having overlight. Elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor to lateral wing to right with timber boarded double doors. Set back from line of road with tarmacadam verge to front. - House, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310008. Attached four-bay two-storey double-pile house, c.1850, with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Camber-headed door opening with moulded surround, and replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1950. Square-headed carriageway to left ground floor with timber boarded double doors. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front. - Saint Mary's Church (Gowran), church/chapel, 1870–1875, National interest, registry number 12310009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310009. Attached four-bay double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1871, on a rectangular plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay full-height chancel (east). Restored, 1994-5. Pitched slate roof with chevron- or saw tooth-crested roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gable on drag edged tooled cut-limestone gabled "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on lichen-covered cut-limestone "slated" plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone buttresses having cut-limestone "slated" coping including benchmark-inscribed piers to corners having cut-limestone "slated" coping. Pointed-arch window openings on cut-limestone stringcourse with dragged cut-limestone mullions, and dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Trefoil-headed lancet window openings (east) on lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered stringcourse, dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) on lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered stringcourse, dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having engaged colonette-detailed reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (west) retaining tessellated "quarry tile" floor; pointed-arch opening into nave; full-height interior open into roof with tessellated "quarry tile" central aisle, Classical-style wall monuments (----), pair of stained glass memorial windows (1918; 1920), encaustic tiled stepped dais to chancel (east), and exposed timber roof construction on cut-granite beaded corbels with timber boarded polygonal vaulted ceiling in carved timber frame on timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds. - Teach Mhuire, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1865–1885, Regional interest, registry number 12310010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310010. Detached three-bay single-storey Tudor Revival curate's house with half-dormer attic, c.1875. Renovated to accommodate commercial use. Pitched roof (gablets to half-dormer attic windows) with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, replacement cement rendered chimney stacks, decorative timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves. Broken coursed rock-faced squared limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite flush chamfered sills, cut-granite block-and-start surrounds incorporating lintels, and replacement timber casement windows. Tudor-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps, cut-granite block-and-start surround, and replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped forecourt having wrought iron railings to perimeter on cut-granite plinth, cut-granite piers having chamfered corners, and wrought iron gate. - Annesley House, house, 1815–1835, Regional interest, registry number 12310011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310011. End-of-terrace six-bay two-storey house, c.1825, on a corner site possibly originally two separate four-bay two-storey (south-west) and two-bay two-storey (north-east) houses with single-bay two-storey side (south-west) elevation, and two-bay two-storey return to north-west possibly originally separate house. Renovated, c.1975, with some openings remodelled possibly to accommodate part commercial use. Extensively renovated. Now in use as guesthouse. Pitched (shared) roof on an L-shaped plan (forming hip to corner) with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves having iron ties. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement) with cut-limestone sills, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows having some two-over-two timber sash windows throughout. Square-headed door opening with moulded surround, and timber panelled door having overlight (square-headed door opening inserted, c.1975, with glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight). Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front. - E. Byrne, house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310012. End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey house, c.1850, on a corner site with single-bay three-storey end bay to right possibly originally separate house, two-bay two-storey side (north-east) elevation, and two-bay two-storey return to south-east. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to left ground floor. Reroofed and part refenestrated, 2004. Now disused. Pitched roof on an L-shaped plan (forming hip to corner and part cranked to side (north-east) elevation) with replacement artificial slate, 2004, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, two-over-two timber sash windows (three-over-three timber sash windows to end bay having two-over-two timber sash windows to ground floor with wrought iron bars), and replacement uPVC casement windows, 2004, to side (north-east) elevation. Camber-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door having overlight Square-headed door opening to end bay in camber-headed recess (now boarded-up). Square-headed door opening to return with timber boarded door. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to left ground floor with panelled pilasters, fixed-pane (two-light) timber display window, glazed timber panelled double doors, overlight, and fascia having moulded cornice. Square-headed door opening to side (north-east) elevation with moulded surround having entablature over on consoles, and glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.(ii) Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1850, to south-east with two-bay single-storey lower linking bay to right. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lime rendered walls. Square-headed window opening with dressed limestone sill, and two-over-two timber sash window having wrought iron bars. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door. - House, 1815–1835, Regional interest, registry number 12310013, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310013. Terraced six-bay two-storey house, c.1825, possibly originally two separate three-bay two-storey houses. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rooflight, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (some in bipartite arrangement to ground floor) with painted dressed limestone sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one timber sash windows to bipartite openings. Square-headed door openings with timber boarded doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front. - Worker's house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310014. Semi-detached two-bay single-storey estate worker's house with dormer attic, c.1850. Now in private residential use. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Pitched (shared) slate roof (gabled (shared) to one dormer attic window with gablet to further dormer attic window) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, timber bargeboards having finial to shared gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging exposed timber eaves. Painted roughcast walls with painted tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone flush chamfered sills, cut-limestone lintels, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening under shared lean-to slate canopy with glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt having random rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone vertical coping. - Worker's house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310015. Semi-detached two-bay single-storey estate worker's house with dormer attic, c.1850. Now in private residential use. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Pitched (shared) slate roof (gablet to dormer attic) with decorative clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, decorative timber bargeboards having trefoil motif, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed squared tooled limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite flush chamfered sills, cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals, and timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt having section of wrought iron railings, cut-granite piers having chamfered corners, and wrought iron gate. - Worker's house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310016. Semi-detached two-bay single-storey estate worker's house with dormer attic, c.1850. Renovated, c.1950, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added to right ground floor. Now in private residential use. One of a pair forming part of a group of six. Pitched (shared) slate roof (gablet to dormer attic) with decorative clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, decorative timber bargeboards having trefoil motif, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat bitumen felt roof to porch with rendered eaves. Coursed squared tooled limestone walls with unpainted cement rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite flush chamfered sills, cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals, and timber casement windows (one-over-one timber sash window to porch). Square-headed door opening to porch with glazed timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourt having section of wrought iron railings with cut-granite piers having chamfered corners, and wrought iron gate. - House, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310017, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310017. Attached five-bay two-storey house, c.1850. Renovated, c.1900, with shopfront inserted to right ground floor. Extensively renovated. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to ends, and unpainted replacement cement render to side (east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered pilaster surround having entablature over on consoles, and replacement glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Timber shopfront, c.1900, to right ground floor on a symmetrical plan with panelled pilasters (some paired), fixed-pane (two-light) timber display windows on panelled stall risers, timber panelled door having overlight, fascia having decorative consoles, and moulded cornice. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front. - Loughlin, house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310018, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310018. Terraced nine-bay two-storey house, c.1850, on an L-shaped plan on a corner site comprising four-bay two-storey elevation to south, single-bay single-storey bowed elevation to south-west, and four-bay two-storey elevation to west having square-headed carriageway to left ground floor. Renovated, c.1900, with wrap-around shopfront inserted to ground floor. Renovated, c.1975, with ground floor reconverted to residential use. Pitched slate roof on a curved L-shaped plan (forming conical section to corner) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings (one in tripartite arrangement) with rendered sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows (one-over-one timber sash window to tripartite opening having one-over-one sidelights). Camber-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door having overlight. Rendered wrap-around shopfront, c.1900, to ground floor with pilasters (some painted red brick piers), replacement fixed-pane timber windows, c.1975, replacement glazed timber door, c.1975, having overlight, fascia with raised lettering, and decorative consoles supporting moulded cornice. Square-headed carriageway with replacement iron-sheeted double doors. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front. - House, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310019, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310019. Attached five-bay two-storey house, c.1850, on a corner site possibly originally two separate two-bay two-storey (south) and three-bay two-storey (north) houses with single-bay two-storey side elevation. Renovated, c.1875, with pubfront inserted to left ground floor having render façade enrichments added to first floor. Refenestrated, c.1975. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, moulded rendered surrounds, c.1875, having decorative detailing to left first floor, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1975, retaining one-over-one timber sash window to right ground floor. Square-headed door opening with moulded rendered surround, c.1875, and replacement glazed timber panelled door. Rendered pubfront, c.1875, to left ground floor with painted roughcast panelled pilasters (some paired), replacement timber display windows, c.1975, on panelled risers having casement overlights, timber panelled double doors, fascia over originally having raised lettering (raised lettering removed, 2004), and decorative consoles supporting moulded cornice. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete flagged footpath to front. - Worker's house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310020, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310020. Group of ten terraced three-bay single-storey estate workers' houses, c.1850. Individually renovated, c.1975-c.2000. Now in private residential use. Pitched (shared) slate roofs with sections of replacement artificial slate, c.1975-c.2000, clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods having sections of replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.2000. Granite ashlar walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, cut-granite surrounds, and replacement timber, aluminium, and uPVC casement windows, c.1975-c.2000. Square-headed door openings with cut-granite surrounds, and replacement glazed timber, aluminium, and uPVC panelled doors, c.1975-c.2000. Set back from road in own grounds with forecourts having unpainted rendered boundary walls. - Castle Ellis Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 12310021, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310021. Three-arch rubble stone road bridge over stream, c.1800. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone triangular cut-waters to piers, cut-limestone rounded coping to parapets, and paired rendered/mass-concrete buttresses to elongated approach walls. Series of three round arches with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits having remains of lime render over. Sited spanning tributary of River Barrow with grass banks to stream. - Bridge House, house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310022, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310022. Attached four-bay two-storey house, c.1850, originally detached. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Unpainted rendered walls with rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered fluted pilaster surround supporting entablature on consoles, and timber panelled door having overlight. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front. - Bridge House, outbuilding, 1815–1835, Regional interest, registry number 12310023, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310023. Detached four-bay double-height outbuilding, c.1825, with square-headed carriageway. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone sills, and timber boarded fittings. Square-headed carriageway with timber boarded double doors. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front. - Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1875–1885, Regional interest, registry number 12310024, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310024. Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, dedicated 1881, on a rectangular plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into five-bay single-storey lean-to side aisles centred on single-bay double-height chancel (east). Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roofs; lean-to slate roofs (side aisles), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on drag edged tooled cut-limestone "Cavetto" kneelers with Cross finials to apexes including cut-granite coping to gable to entrance (west) front on drag edged tooled cut-limestone "Cavetto" kneelers with buttressed gabled bellcote to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on rock faced limestone ashlar battered base with drag edged tooled cut- or hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Quatrefoil window openings (clerestorey) with cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings. Lancet window openings (side aisles) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door openings (west) with cut-granite thresholds, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded double doors having overpanels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front approached by flight of four cut-granite steps, cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered rebated reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing timber boarded double doors. Pair of lancet window openings with pointed quatrefoil window opening to gable, cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having quatrefoil-detailed overpanel; full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled organ gallery (west) supporting timber panelled pipe organ centred on "West Window", carpeted central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on granite ashlar clustered colonette pillars, exposed scissor truss timber roof construction on cut-granite beaded corbels with wind braced timber boarded ceiling, pointed-arch chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with Gothic-style altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (----) in mosaic tiled surround, arcaded railings to side altars centred on Gothic-style altars below stained glass memorial windows (----) in mosaic tiled surrounds, Gothic-style timber panelled confessional boxes to side aisles below stained glass memorial windows (----), and exposed timber roof construction with wind braced timber boarded ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds with granite ashlar chamfered piers to perimeter having domed pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates. - Catholic Church of the Assumption, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1890–1910, Regional interest, registry number 12310026, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310026. Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to centre ground floor having flanking canted bay windows. Hipped slate roof (hipped to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves. Painted roughcast walls with painted rendered strips to corners. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows) with painted cut-stone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds on an elevated site with landscaped grounds to site having random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter with squared limestone 'battlemented' coping.(ii) Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1900, to north with square-headed carriageway to left ground floor, single-bay single-storey mono-pitched projecting bay to right, and two-bay single-storey mono-pitched wing to left. Part reroofed. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Mono-pitched roofs with replacement corrugated-iron, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window opening with no sill, and timber casement window. Square-headed door openings (including one to right first floor) with timber boarded doors. Square-headed carriageway to left ground floor with timber boarded double doors. - House, 1815–1835, Regional interest, registry number 12310031, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310031. Terraced three-bay two-storey house, c.1825. Part refenestrated, c.1925. Part refenestrated, c.1975. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1925, to first floor having replacement timber casement windows, c.1975, to remainder. Square-headed door opening with glazed tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Road fronted with concrete flagged footpath to front. - House, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 12310032, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310032. Detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1850. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows. Round-headed door opening in round-headed recess with timber panelled door having overlight. Set back from line of road with sections of iron railings to front on cut-granite plinth having cut-granite piers, and iron gates. - Catholic Church of the Assumption, graveyard/cemetery, 1800–2000, Regional interest, registry number 12310033, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12310033. Graveyard with various cut-stone markers, pre-1840-present.(ii) Gateway, post-1889, comprising pair of limestone ashlar piers with stringcourses, moulded capping, cast-iron double gates, sections of cast-iron flanking railings on broken coursed squared limestone plinths, limestone ashlar outer piers with stringcourses, moulded capping, and broken coursed squared limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone coping. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: Susceptibility 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 Gowran. - 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/kilkenny/gowran.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/gowran.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/gowran.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gowran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Castle Ellis: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/castle-ellis.md - Clashwilliam Upper: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/clashwilliam-upper.md - Clover: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/clover.md - Commons: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/commons-90529.md - Commons North: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/commons-north.md - Commons South: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/commons-south.md - Gowran Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/gowran-demesne.md - Newhouse: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/newhouse-91232.md - Stangs: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/stangs.md - Watree: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/watree.md - Woodquarter: https://everytownland.com/kilkenny/woodquarter.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/kilkenny/gowran - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kilkenny/gowran