Gowel

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowel, from 130 m² to 230,519 m² (23.05 ha, 56.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gowel in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  1. To construct a storey and a half type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a wastewater treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660211

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  1. To construct a storey and a half type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a wastewater treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660208

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  carry out the following alterations to existing house. 1/ Extend existing front entrance porch on South East elevation and 2/ Extend existing utility room/bathroom on North East elevation

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2153

• 30 Sept 2020Conditional

  to 1. To demolish an existing habitable dwelling 2. To construct a two storey type dwelling with a single storey to the rear 3. Construct a domestic garage 4. To construct a Waste Water Treatment System to current EPA Code of Practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 20162

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  erect two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, mechanical effluent treatment unit and percolation area, provide new site entrance with wing walls, piers and access road including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19203

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Annaghearly Lough 001402

Recorded monuments

• LE027-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the N-facing slope of a small drumlin rise. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (int. dims 28m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m at N to 7m at S; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.3m) which is overlain by a field bank SW-NW, and slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m) N-NE. An original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE027-095 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of a gentle SE-facing slope. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dim. 41m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.85m) SE-W-NW which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere, and an external fosse (Wth 1.9m; D 0.15m) S-W. The original entrance is not identified. The monument is bisected by a NW-SE field bank, and is largely removed NE of this feature. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1512 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Gowel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Gowel · An Gabhal

Area

1,441,674 m² (144.17 ha, 356.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Gowel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gowel electoral division: 360 people in 132 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghearly, Drumliffin Glebe, Finisklin, Kiltoghert, Mong, Sheemore

Placenames

Gowel on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.