Tullygowan
Townland in the civil parish of Killanny, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Tulaigh Ghabhann
- Area
- 57.5 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,966 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullygowan, from 539 m² to 91,686 m² (9.17 ha, 22.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tullygowan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Oct 2018Conditional
The development will consist of a new two storey dwellinghouse, garage and wastewater treatment system inlcuding percolation areas, landscaping and all new boundary treatments and associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18790
23 Oct 2017N/a
Permission for development will consist of a new two storey dwelling house, garage and waste water treatment system including percolation areas, landscaping and all new boundary treatments and associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17794
9 Feb 2017N/a
Permission for development to consist of a new two storey dwellinghouse, garage and waste water treatment system including percolation area, landscaping and all new boundary treatments and associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1779
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tullygowan.
Recorded monuments
- LH010-018 Enclosure
Description
Situated at the flat NW end of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge with good commanding views. This is a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m N-S; c. 38m E-W) defined by narrow fosse visible on the OSI images (1995). It is also visible on Google Earth (19/06/2018), but no feature is visible at ground level. Enclosure (LH010-024----) is c. 160m to the NNW and enclosure (LH010-025----) is c. 35m to the SE. See the attached enhanced aerial view(top) from Google Earth Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 April 2012 Amended; 11 March 2020
- LH010-024 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by a fosse is visible only on Google Earth (29/06/2018). The enclosure (LH010-018----) is c. 160m to the SSE. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 March 2020
- LH010-025 Enclosure
Description
Located at the SE end of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge. The cropmark of a circular area (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018). The interior is traversed by a NNE-SSW field bank W of the centre. Enclosure (LH010-018----) is c. 35m to the NW. This enclosure was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère. See the attached enhanced aerial view (lower) from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 March, 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tullygowan.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tullygowan.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tullygowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Tullygowan · Tulaigh Ghabhann
- Area
- 574,763 m² (57.48 ha, 142.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killanny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Killanny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killanny electoral division: 922 people in 291 households; 90% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballytrasna, Carrickavallan, Drumard, Killanny, Lannat, Tully
- Placenames
- Tullygowan 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.