Gowlaun

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowlaun, from 956 m² to 235,482 m² (23.55 ha, 58.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Water Bodies (General)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 Nov 2024Conditional

  on the Grant of Outline Permission (Ref. No. P21/872) to construct a dwelling house and garage along with ancillary site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24363

• 6 Nov 2024Conditional

  on the Grant of Outline Permission (Ref. No. P21/870) to construct a dwelling house and garage along with ancillary site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24364

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  to extend the existing Dwelling & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22251

• 18 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage along with ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21870

• 18 Aug 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage along with ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21872

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 Gowlaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL008-045006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of an E-W running ridge in pasture, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This subcircular rath (35.5m N-S; 30.5m E-W) is defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.75m); a vague rise (H <0.1m; Wth 1m) from N to NE suggests the former presence of an earthen bank. A later earth and stone field bank, running NNE-SSW, cuts across the W half of the interior. Grass-covered field walls radiate from the scarp at SE, SSE and SSW. There is an enclosure (CL008-045007-) c. 86m to the NNE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 4 October 2022

• CL008-045007 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pastureland and outcropping limestone, with higher ground to the SE, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This enclosure is defined by a roughly D-shaped steeply scarped earthen platform (31.7m E-W; H 0.55-0.9m) with a straight NW side (L c. 33m) consisting of a modern field wall. The field to the N of this wall has been quarried. Intermittent stretches of limestone drystone revetting (two/three courses high) are visible on the scarp face from SSE-W. The perimeter is overgrown from ENE-E. Two hollows (D 0.5m) are visible in the uneven rocky interior. Limestone slabs and boulders in the base of the larger hollow (7m NE-SW; 2m NW-SE) are suggestive of a possible collapsed souterrain but may be field clearance. There is a cashel (CL008-045008-) c. 68m to the NE, and a rath (CL008-045006-) c. 86m to the SSW. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-045007-_01.jpg View from SW Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 5 October 2022

• CL008-046 Ritual site - holy well
  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.

• CL008-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a prominent steep hill, now planted with coniferous forest, overlooking an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-) to the N. Hachured and named 'Lissateeaun' on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Labelled as 'Lios an tSidheáin' on Robinson's (1977) map - a name translated as 'Fairy Hill' in the OS Letters (1839) (Comber 1997, 71). This subtriangular rath (36.7m E-W; 27m N-S) is defined by a steep scarp from SW-SE and by a deep round-bottomed fosse (Wth 4-6m) along the S side. The fosse is 7m below the level of the summit of the platform and 2m below the surrounding ground level. The scarp may be largely natural. Westropp (1915, 48) considered the rath to have been 'shaped out of the natural bluff, but raised and rounded so as to form a high flat-topped platform sufficiently imposing as seen from the road bridge to the east.' There is a slight berm c. 10m below the scarp at N, SE and SW, and traces of a possible outer bank at NNE. The interior dips towards the SW. The following images have been uploaded: CL008-048----_01.jpg Aerial view from E CL008-048----_02.jpg View from ENE Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 19 October 2022

• CL008-143 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a small E-W orientated drumlin in pasture. A circular ringfort (diam. 32m) defined by an earthen scarp. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi orthophotography (MapGenie 2013-2018). A barrow (CL008-137----) lies c. 240m to the NW on top of a larger drumlin ridge. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 29 March 2023

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

At the centre of the townland of Gowlaun, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gowlaun · An Gabhlán

Area

724,565 m² (72.46 ha, 179.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoon, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Lisdoonvarna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,268 people lived in 302 households in the Lisdoonvarna electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyinsheen Beg, Knockaunvickteera, Lisdoonvarna, Rathbaun

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.