Bowelk

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bowelk, from 1,447 m² to 133,623 m² (13.36 ha, 33.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Bowelk 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.

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  permission to erecting a two-storey style dwelling and a detached domestic garage, installing an on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, creating a new site entrance together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660361

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bowelk.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bowelk.

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1770–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan mill complex, built as beetling mill, comprising five-bay three-storey mill building to north, built c.1780, converted to corn mill c.1840, with two-bay full-height kiln, built c.1840, to west end of rear (south) elevation. Now disused and derelict. Remains of hipped slate roof to mill, pitched slate roof to kiln, some cast-iron rainwater goods remaining. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Segmental-arch window openings with red brick voussoirs, some with remains of square-headed timber-framed windows with cast-iron glazing panels, some gridded, some latticed. Some timber window surrounds remaining. Segmental-headed door openings with red brick voussoirs, some with square-headed timber battened doors. No machinery remaining. Inclined cast-iron turbine feed pipe to south, supported on rubble stone piers.

• Bowelk House, house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1840, having raised gablet over entrance bay to front (south-east) elevation, canted bay window to south-west gable, three-bay lower and slightly recessed two-storey return to west end of rear elevation, with outbuildings attached to gable of same, forming enclosed yard to rear. Currently under renovation. Pitched slate roofs with timber corbelled eaves, chimneystacks removed, and with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly dressed stone walls, with flush cut-stone quoins. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds, cut-stone sills, and timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to front elevation and six-over-six elsewhere. Timber casement to canted bay window, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to sides. Elliptical-arch door opening, having red brick block-and-start surround, leaded sidelights with tooled stone sills, leaded two-stage cobweb fanlight, and double-leaf timber panelled door. Steps over basement removed. Square-headed door opening to north-east elevation of rear block, having red brick block-and-start surround and timber battened door. Site entrance to east having cut-stone octagonal-profile piers with pointed caps, double-leaf wrought-iron gates, matching flanking railings and matching terminating cut-stone piers. Set in own grounds, with walled garden and outbuildings.

• Bowelk House, walled garden, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rectangular-plan limestone-built walled garden, built c.1840, having house and outbuildings forming north-east edge. Rubble stone and snecked dressed stone walls, with stone copings, forming north-west, south-west, and south-east boundaries. Curved corner to east. Ruinous remains of timber-framed greenhouse to internal face of north-west wall, having half-glazed timber panelled door with coloured glass margins. Ruinous remains of single-storey lean-to building to external face of north-west wall. Square-headed door opening to south-west of this, having red-brick voussoirs and recent sheet metal door. Some cut granite coping stones to walls. Box hedges and fruit trees to garden.

• Bowelk House, stables, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built c.1840, comprising six-bay two-storey range to north-east of yard, having integral carriage arch to north end, six-bay two-storey range to north-west of yard, having external rubble stone staircase and integral pedestrian arch, and recent single-storey extension to north-west elevation, and three-bay two-storey range to south-west, attached to rear (north-west) gable of house, having carriage arch to north end. House and boundary wall forming south-east boundary of yard. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, weather-vane to north corner, with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls with tooled stone quoins. Square-headed window openings with red-brick block-and-start surrounds and cut limestone sills, having some timber battened shutters, some small-pane fixed timber windows with timber louvres. Square-headed door openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and timber battened doors and half-doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arches, that to north having cut-stone surround and red brick to arch, red brick arches and surrounds elsewhere. Timber battened double-leaf doors. Recent square-headed carriage opening to south-west elevation of south-west range, having timber lintel and recent metal doors. Round pedestrian arch with brick walls, timber battened door to external elevation. Rubble stone boundary wall to south-east of yard, having square-headed door opening with red brick relieving arch, and timber battened door. Field entrance to east of yard, comprising wrought-iron double-leaf gates, octagonal-plan tooled limestone piers, and curved rubble stone flanking walls with cut-stone copings.

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

At the centre of the townland of Bowelk, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2379 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Bowelk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Bowelk · Both Bhoilc

Area

522,168 m² (52.22 ha, 129.03 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Anny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

391 people lived in 125 households in the Anny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balladian, Corkeeran, Corwillin, Cumry, Drumfaldra, Tamlat

Placenames

Bowelk 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.