Gowlaun

198 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowlaun, from 16 m² to 195,883 m² (19.59 ha, 48.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 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 Gowlaun 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.

• 3 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT 2 NO. BELL MOUTH ENTRANCES A & B ONTO PUBLIC ROAD TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO FORESTRY PLANTATIONS TOGETHER WITH INTERNAL ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18223

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilgarriff Bog 000510
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gowlaun Bog 000502
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tawnaghbeg Bog 000547
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derrynabrock Bog 000457

Recorded monuments

• MA052-019 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gowlaun.

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 Gowlaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Gowlaun · An Gabhlán

Area

3,907,637 m² (390.76 ha, 965.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Doocastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doocastle electoral division: 383 people in 153 households; 90% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrykinlough, Derrynabrock, Kilgarriff, Roosky, Srah Upper, Tawnaghbeg

Placenames

Gowlaun 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.