# Gowly, Co. Leitrim: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kiltubbrid, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Gabhlaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 849,246 m² (84.92 ha, 209.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): O2 General, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kiltubbrid, https://everytownland.com/leitrim/parish/kiltubbrid.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Keshcarrigan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 618 people lived in 226 households in the Keshcarrigan electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Leitrim, https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/29310 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 110918 - Centre: latitude 54.022113, longitude -7.952416 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowly, from 16 m² to 253,500 m² (25.35 ha, 62.64 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 628439: 253,500 m² (25.35 ha, 62.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/628439.md - Parcel 591505: 132,116 m² (13.21 ha, 32.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/591505.md - Parcel 5256978: 92,470 m² (9.25 ha, 22.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5256978.md - Parcel 635232: 42,289 m² (4.23 ha, 10.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/635232.md - Parcel 635385: 32,285 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/635385.md - Parcel 592281: 27,417 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/592281.md - Parcel 595859: 22,295 m² (2.23 ha, 5.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/595859.md - Parcel 601271: 21,984 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/601271.md - Parcel 632181: 20,390 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/632181.md - Parcel 599279: 19,857 m² (1.99 ha, 4.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/599279.md - Parcel 596197: 19,118 m² (1.91 ha, 4.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/596197.md - Parcel 628723: 17,997 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/628723.md - Parcel 591421: 17,522 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/591421.md - Parcel 590097: 15,358 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/590097.md - Parcel 3714825: 10,664 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714825.md - Parcel 627466: 9,612 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/627466.md - Parcel 3714834: 9,374 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714834.md - Parcel 627199: 9,258 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/627199.md - Parcel 613482: 6,613 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/613482.md - Parcel 632429: 6,421 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/632429.md - Parcel 628081: 6,260 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/628081.md - Parcel 594362: 5,861 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/594362.md - Parcel 3714833: 5,056 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714833.md - Parcel 594248: 5,018 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/594248.md - Parcel 624955: 4,410 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/624955.md - Parcel 592615: 4,103 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/592615.md - Parcel 3714826: 4,071 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714826.md - Parcel 599914: 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/599914.md - Parcel 2708096: 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2708096.md - Parcel 599536: 2,433 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/599536.md - Parcel 601919: 2,227 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/601919.md - Parcel 592618: 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/592618.md - Parcel 590366: 2,006 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/590366.md - Parcel 628776: 1,944 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/628776.md - Parcel 603128: 1,612 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/603128.md - Parcel 627209: 1,422 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/627209.md - Parcel 4682979: 1,358 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4682979.md - Parcel 603575: 1,308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/603575.md - Parcel 595101: 693 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/595101.md - Parcel 618335: 529 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/618335.md - Parcel 4649393: 457 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649393.md - Parcel 3714831: 371 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714831.md - Parcel 619987: 365 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/619987.md - Parcel 3714830: 363 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714830.md - Parcel 3714832: 333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714832.md - Parcel 3714827: 322 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714827.md - Parcel 613184: 317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/613184.md - Parcel 3714829: 305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714829.md - Parcel 2485125: 301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2485125.md - Parcel 613481: 297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/613481.md - Parcel 2391941: 280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2391941.md - Parcel 3714828: 264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3714828.md - Parcel 4219722: 220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4219722.md - Parcel 2392425: 97 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2392425.md - Parcel 2392443: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2392443.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - O2 General: Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim; 22 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.leitrim.ie/council/services/planning-building/forward-planning-development/leitrim-county-development-plan/leitrim-county-development-plan-2023-2029/leitrim-county-development-plan.html - C5 Tourism Related Development (Tourism and related): Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.leitrim.ie/council/services/planning-building/forward-planning-development/leitrim-county-development-plan/leitrim-county-development-plan-2023-2029/leitrim-county-development-plan.html ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Gowly in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Gowly. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LE024-047: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLE024-047----. Situated towards the W edge of the triangular E end (dims c. 700m E-W; c. 700m N-S) of Lough Scur between Small Island, Prison Island and Whiskey Island. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as 'Otter Island'. An area (dims 35m N-S; 10m E-W) of reeds and bamboo is surrounded beneath the water by large timbers and stones but no structures can be 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 - LE024-048: Watchtower, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLE024-048----. Situated on a rock outcrop pinnacle in mixed woodland about 10m from the S shore of Prison Island, which is in the central part of Lough Scur. This structure was reputedly built as a prison, probably by John Reynolds of Castle John (LE024-050---), which is c. 150m to the S across the lake, in 1612 when he was the sheriff of Leitrim (Mac an Ghalloglaigh 1971, 236). It may have been regarded as a prison (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 217) because of annalistic references to the taking or keeping of prisoners at Lough Scur. Both features are marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony and parish maps at Lough Skure (No. 42). However, this structure is more likely to have been built as a watchtower. It is a roofless, rectangular, three-storey structure (int. dims 5.3m NE-SW; 3.95m NW-SE; H c. 5m) built of randomly coursed limestone mortared masonry (Wth 1m) with dressed quoins and a rubble core but overgrown with ivy. There is a flat-arched doorway (Wth 1m; H 2.45m) at the first floor on the NE side, and there is a fireplace, four gun-loops or small lights (int. H 0.94m; int. Wth 0.52m; ext. H 0.37m; Wth 0.08m) and a small window at this floor. There are two gun-loops or lights in each wall at the ground floor and there are the remains of a fireplace, at least three gun-loops or lights and a small window at the second floor. The first floor is supported on corbels but access between the floors must have been by internal wooden ladder. (McDermott 2019, 118) See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 717). 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 revised upload: 13 January 2017 - LE024-049: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLE024-049----. Located at a narrow point (Wth c. 100m) connecting the triangular E end (dims c. 700m E-W; c. 700m N-S) with the rectangular central part (dims c. 750m E-W; c. 500m N-S) of Lough Scur, and between Prison Island, Whiskey Island and Castle Island. This may be the ‘Caisleán Locha in Scoir’ to which Magnus O’Ruairc fled in 1390, having escaped from imprisonment at Lough Oughter Castle (CV020-060----). The annals (Ann. Conn) relate that he was betrayed at Lough Scur by Clan Murtagh and they killed him as he stepped out of his boat. This is an overgrown oval island (dims 10m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.5m) of earth and stone surrounded by timber wattling which is visible intermittently in the water at S. It is only visible when lake water levels are low. It had been cut by a navigation channel at S, and was further damaged by navigational works during 2003. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 13 January 2017 - LE024-050: House - fortified house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLE024-050----. it is located on a promontory, which was once an island known as Castle Island, near the S shore of Lough Scur in an area of scrub and rock outcrop. The house was built by John Reynolds, who was amongst one of the first of the Mac Raghnall to anglicise the name to Reynolds. He supported initiatives by the government to settle Leitrim, probably as a means of escaping the overlordship of O’Rourke. John Reynolds, or Seán na gCeann (of the heads), received a grant of over 2,000 acres as the manor of Lough Scur in 1621-2 (Mac an Ghalloglaigh 1971, 236, 253), and his son, Humphry, describes it in his will of 1660 as 20 cartrons or townlands, but the house is not mentioned (O’Connell 1960, 226). The house is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony and parish maps together with the watchtower (LE024-048----) on Prison Island c. 150m to the NW. The house was a roofless ruin by 1797 (Grose 1792, vol. 2, 91-2) and has survived almost unchanged since, although with a dense cover of ivy. The house is a rectangular, roofless, five-bay, three-storey house (int. dims 14m E-W; 6.25m N-S) surviving almost complete, except for the E gable. The house has rectangular windows from which no dressed stone survives, although some square hood-moulding fragments are visible. There is a destroyed doorway in the centre of the S wall, and a semi-circular newel stair tower with gun-loops projects from the centre of the N wall, but the stair does not survive. The remains of fireplaces can be identified on both gables and in the N wall adjacent to the stairs tower. South of the house are low earthen banks suggesting outhouses, and a roadway (Wth 9m) approaches the house from the S. (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 217) See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 717). 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 O’Connell, P. 1960, Some Co. Leitrim wills. Breifne, vol. 1, 3, 225-41. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gowly. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gowly, about 1 in 10 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gowly. - 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/leitrim/gowly.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/gowly.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/gowly.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gowly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim: https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrick: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/carrick-110214.md - Driny: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/driny.md - Keshcarrigan: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/keshcarrigan.md - Loughscur: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/loughscur.md - Roscarban: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/roscarban.md - Rossy: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/rossy.md - Sheebeg: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/sheebeg.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/leitrim/gowly - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/leitrim/gowly