Gowla

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowla, from 2,559 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres) to 2,525,316 m² (252.53 ha, 624.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Gowla 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gowla in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Castle Ffrench West Bog NHA 000280
• Natural Heritage Area: Castle Ffrench East Bog NHA 001244

Recorded monuments

• GA047-057 Platform - peatland
  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.

• GA047-058 Road - class 1 togher
  Description

  Located close to the western edges of an industrial Bord na Móna bog in peat fields adjacent to forestry. This togher ran parallel and 8m north of another togher (GLA0026 IAWU numbering system) and was visible in the drain face and on the field surface at five sightings for 105m. It was orientated E - W and was composed of longitudinally laid planks or paired planks underlain by brushwood transverses. The togher was dated between 660 - 770 AD. Uploaded on: 31 August 2017

• GA047-059 Platform - peatland
  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.

• GA047-060 Platform - peatland
  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.

• GA047-061 Road - class 2 togher
  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.

• GA061-084 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  At S end of a ridge in grassland; Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 32m, E-W 29m) defined by a bank and external fosse, no visiblesurface trace of which survive from NNW through N toENE. A field bank and trackway encircle themonument throughout. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA061-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At S end of a low ridge. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1915) as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m int.), apparently bivallate and overlain by a field wall at NW. Traces of a possible outer bank were evident from W to NW and at NE, where traces of the fosse were visible. However, the rest of the monument had been cleared and quarried out and no visible surface trace survived According to the landowner, the fosse was '6' [c. 1.8m] wide and 10' [c. 3m] deep'. The location and cartographic evidence suggest that this most likely was a rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 16 August 2023

• GA061-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 30m, N-S 27m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is clearly visible except from NNE to E, and from SW to NNW where a scarp forms the enclosing element. A gap at S may mark the original entrance as traces of a possible causeway are visible across the fosse here. A field bank overlies the outer bank from SE through S to WNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 16 August 2023

• GA061-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. According to the landowner, a 'fort' was levelled here in the mid-1940s by his father and the field is still known as the 'fort field'. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gowla, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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 Gowla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gowla · Gabhla

Area

4,462,979 m² (446.3 ha, 1,102.83 acres)

Civil parish

Ahascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Castleffrench, the unit of the census

Census 2022

522 people lived in 178 households in the Castleffrench electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caltraghduff, Castle Ffrench East, Castle Ffrench West, Clooncannon (Kelly), Cloonshee (Rochfort), Eskermore, Killaderry, Loonaghtan (Kelly), Muckloon

Placenames

Gowla 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.