Gowlan

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gowlan, from 1,126 m² to 279,456 m² (27.95 ha, 69.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Gowlan 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.

• 27 Jan 2026Conditional

  to, 1.) decommission existing silage pit and erect a cubicle shed on its footprint, 2.) construct a new walled silage pit with apron, 3.) demolish existing lean-to type shed and erect a roofed enclosure spanning between existing sheds, 4.) construct a slatted tank to the North West end of existing cubicle sheds, and to extend same cubicle sheds over tank, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660026

• 15 Dec 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of a new milking parlour with underground effluent storage tank, adjoining dairy and drafting area together with the proposed relocation of existing milk silo and meal bin and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21348

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  to erect a new milk silo and all associated works COVID 19

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2063

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 Gowlan.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-107 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A deposit of archaeological wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gowlan, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Gowlan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Gowlan · An Gabhlán

Area

2,160,703 m² (216.07 ha, 533.92 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Moydow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

802 people lived in 268 households in the Moydow electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghantrah, Clooneeny, Cloonmore, Cloonturk, Gragh, Kilmore Upper, Newtown, Sharvoge

Placenames

Gowlan 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.