# Bowelk, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Both Bhoilc. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 522,168 m² (52.22 ha, 129.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,498 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghnamullen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/aghnamullen.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Anny, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39927 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170190 - Centre: latitude 54.110353, longitude -6.933761 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bowelk, from 1,447 m² to 133,623 m² (13.36 ha, 33.02 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 327445: 133,623 m² (13.36 ha, 33.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327445.md - Parcel 341945: 79,830 m² (7.98 ha, 19.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341945.md - Parcel 341943: 69,327 m² (6.93 ha, 17.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341943.md - Parcel 330874: 56,388 m² (5.64 ha, 13.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330874.md - Parcel 330872: 38,343 m² (3.83 ha, 9.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330872.md - Parcel 4615742: 7,052 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4615742.md - Parcel 330873: 3,508 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330873.md - Parcel 333817: 3,498 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333817.md - Parcel 341944: 3,123 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341944.md - Parcel 330012: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330012.md - Parcel 3996300: 1,923 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996300.md - Parcel 332081: 1,836 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/332081.md - Parcel 5133871: 1,734 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5133871.md - Parcel 342969: 1,487 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342969.md - Parcel 3587350: 1,447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3587350.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 2 Sept 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660361: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660361/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Bowelk. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bowelk. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mill (water), 1770–1850, Regional interest, registry number 41402314, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402314. 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, registry number 41402315, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402315. 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, registry number 41402316, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402316. 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, registry number 41402346, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402346. 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. ## 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 Bowelk, about 1 in 20 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, 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2379.zip (ZIP). - 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/monaghan/bowelk.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/bowelk.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/bowelk.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bowelk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Balladian: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/balladian.md - Corkeeran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corkeeran-170432.md - Corwillin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corwillin.md - Cumry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cumry.md - Drumfaldra: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumfaldra.md - Tamlat: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tamlat-171688.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/monaghan/bowelk - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/bowelk