Gowly

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowly, from 16 m² to 253,500 m² (25.35 ha, 62.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• O2General
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism Related Development (Tourism and related)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Gowly 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

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

Recorded monuments

• LE024-047 Crannog
  Description

  Situated towards the W edge of the triangular E end (dims c. 700m E-W; c. 700m N-S) of Lough Scur between Small Island, Prison Island and Whiskey Island. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as 'Otter Island'. An area (dims 35m N-S; 10m E-W) of reeds and bamboo is surrounded beneath the water by large timbers and stones but no structures can be identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE024-048 Watchtower
  Description

  Situated on a rock outcrop pinnacle in mixed woodland about 10m from the S shore of Prison Island, which is in the central part of Lough Scur. This structure was reputedly built as a prison, probably by John Reynolds of Castle John (LE024-050---), which is c. 150m to the S across the lake, in 1612 when he was the sheriff of Leitrim (Mac an Ghalloglaigh 1971, 236). It may have been regarded as a prison (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 217) because of annalistic references to the taking or keeping of prisoners at Lough Scur. Both features are marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony and parish maps at Lough Skure (No. 42). However, this structure is more likely to have been built as a watchtower. It is a roofless, rectangular, three-storey structure (int. dims 5.3m NE-SW; 3.95m NW-SE; H c. 5m) built of randomly coursed limestone mortared masonry (Wth 1m) with dressed quoins and a rubble core but overgrown with ivy. There is a flat-arched doorway (Wth 1m; H 2.45m) at the first floor on the NE side, and there is a fireplace, four gun-loops or small lights (int. H 0.94m; int. Wth 0.52m; ext. H 0.37m; Wth 0.08m) and a small window at this floor. There are two gun-loops or lights in each wall at the ground floor and there are the remains of a fireplace, at least three gun-loops or lights and a small window at the second floor. The first floor is supported on corbels but access between the floors must have been by internal wooden ladder. (McDermott 2019, 118) See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 717). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 13 January 2017

• LE024-049 Crannog
  Description

  Located at a narrow point (Wth c. 100m) connecting the triangular E end (dims c. 700m E-W; c. 700m N-S) with the rectangular central part (dims c. 750m E-W; c. 500m N-S) of Lough Scur, and between Prison Island, Whiskey Island and Castle Island. This may be the ‘Caisleán Locha in Scoir’ to which Magnus O’Ruairc fled in 1390, having escaped from imprisonment at Lough Oughter Castle (CV020-060----). The annals (Ann. Conn) relate that he was betrayed at Lough Scur by Clan Murtagh and they killed him as he stepped out of his boat. This is an overgrown oval island (dims 10m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.5m) of earth and stone surrounded by timber wattling which is visible intermittently in the water at S. It is only visible when lake water levels are low. It had been cut by a navigation channel at S, and was further damaged by navigational works during 2003. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 13 January 2017

• LE024-050 House - fortified house
  Description

  it is located on a promontory, which was once an island known as Castle Island, near the S shore of Lough Scur in an area of scrub and rock outcrop. The house was built by John Reynolds, who was amongst one of the first of the Mac Raghnall to anglicise the name to Reynolds. He supported initiatives by the government to settle Leitrim, probably as a means of escaping the overlordship of O’Rourke. John Reynolds, or Seán na gCeann (of the heads), received a grant of over 2,000 acres as the manor of Lough Scur in 1621-2 (Mac an Ghalloglaigh 1971, 236, 253), and his son, Humphry, describes it in his will of 1660 as 20 cartrons or townlands, but the house is not mentioned (O’Connell 1960, 226). The house is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony and parish maps together with the watchtower (LE024-048----) on Prison Island c. 150m to the NW. The house was a roofless ruin by 1797 (Grose 1792, vol. 2, 91-2) and has survived almost unchanged since, although with a dense cover of ivy. The house is a rectangular, roofless, five-bay, three-storey house (int. dims 14m E-W; 6.25m N-S) surviving almost complete, except for the E gable. The house has rectangular windows from which no dressed stone survives, although some square hood-moulding fragments are visible. There is a destroyed doorway in the centre of the S wall, and a semi-circular newel stair tower with gun-loops projects from the centre of the N wall, but the stair does not survive. The remains of fireplaces can be identified on both gables and in the N wall adjacent to the stairs tower. South of the house are low earthen banks suggesting outhouses, and a roadway (Wth 9m) approaches the house from the S. (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 217) See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 717). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 O’Connell, P. 1960, Some Co. Leitrim wills. Breifne, vol. 1, 3, 225-41.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Gowly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Gowly · Gabhlaigh

Area

849,246 m² (84.92 ha, 209.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltubbrid, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Keshcarrigan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Keshcarrigan electoral division: 618 people in 226 households; 71% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrick, Driny, Keshcarrigan, Loughscur, Roscarban, Rossy, Sheebeg

Placenames

Gowly 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.