Castlegowan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlegowan, from 707 m² to 162,509 m² (16.25 ha, 40.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlegowan 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.

• 4 Dec 2018N/a

  for development consisting of 5 no. Forest Road access's, with associated turning heads and security gates. Including all other ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18475

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 Castlegowan.

Recorded monuments

• SL005-015 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a substantial rubble limestone bank (Wth 4.35m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m). No fosse is visible at ground level. The original external facing, consisting of two courses of large square limestone blocks (av. dims. 0.4m square) survives at the external base of the bank SE-SW. No other facing is visible along the bank. The external side of the bank has been removed by small quarries at W and NW. Modern drystone field walls have been constructed on top of the bank NW-NE. A narrow laneway abuts the external base of the bank ENE-ESE. The original entrance to the site is not recognisable. The blocked entrance to a possible souterrain (SL005-015001-) is located to W of centre in the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-015001 Souterrain
  Description

  Located on the W side of the interior of Castlegowan cashel (SL005-015----). A low circular pile of limestone rubble (diam. 1.5m; H 0.1m) may be blocking the entrance to a souterrain as the ground beneath the rubble and the immediate area around feels hollow underfoot. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 April 2013

• SL005-016 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on level ground, on slight rise in gently undulating low-lying wet pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a stone bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 1.35m) of random limestone rubble. No fosse visible at ground level. A portion of the original external wall facing, made up of un-coursed large limestone flags, survives NNE-E. Modern drystone field walls have been built on top of and along the centre line of the bank E-NNW. The external face of the cashel has been reconstructed to form the rear wall of a small cattle yard, with a small shed and the ruined remains of a house that abuts the external side of the cashel at SE. A modern NW-SE orientated drystone wall links to the modern wall on top of the cashel bank at NW. A break (Wth 1.7m).in the bank at SW marks the position of the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-150 Hut site
  Description

  In low-lying ground near cut-away bog. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. This marks the approximate location of an feature recorded by a fieldworker in 1991 as an oval-shaped hut (int. diam. 2.09m x 2m) defined by a low stone footing, with an entrance at N (SMR file). No trace was found during an inspection in 2005. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-151 Field system
  Description

  These are are a series of small field enclosures or paddocks associated with a small, abandoned 18th/19th century clachán. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-152 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in low-lying level wet pasture. D-shaped area (dims. 20m ENE-WSW; 16m NNW-SSE) enclosed by the denuded footings of a drystone wall (Wth 1.1m; H 0.1m). No fosse is visible at ground level. From SW-E the area is enclosed by the curving footings of the drystone wall. The S side of the site is defined E-SW by the footings of a linear ENE-WSW orientated post-medieval drystone wall. The position of the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-153001 Mound
  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.

• SL005-153002 Mound
  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.

• SL005-153003 Mound
  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.

• SL005-153004 Mound
  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.

• SL005-153005 Mound
  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.

• SL005-153006 Stone row
  Description

  A slightly curving row of 7 low contiguous stones, oriented NNE–SSW, was noted to SSW of a mound (SL005-153001-) during a field inspection in 1991. No other details were recorded, and it was not evident at the time of a follow-up inspection in 2003. Its exact location and nature are uncertain. It may have been a remnant of a field wall. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 May 2019

• SL005-153007 Cairn - unclassified
  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.

• SL005-199 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In an E–W field ditch on the N boundary of a pasture field in an area of undulating boggy terrain. Ground rises gently for 50m to S where a cashel (SL005-016----) is sited on the crest of the elevation. This fulacht fia is not visible at surface ground level. It has been bisected by an E–W field ditch (Wth 2m at top, 0.5-0.6m at base; D 1.4-1.5m). The mound (L 9m E–W; H 1.4m) is clearly visible in both section faces as a gently domed, dense concentration of angular, heat-shattered stone fragments in black charcoal-rich soil. The top of the mound underlies a layer (D 0.3-0.4m) of peat and sod, and the mound extends to the full depth of the field drain. A piece of timber protrudes slightly from the E edge of the mound at the base of the field ditch in the S section face, but it is impossible to determine if this is related structurally in any way to the fulacht fia. To the N of the field ditch there is an area of rough boggy, scrub-covered ground, and here the field ditch is bordered by heaps of field clearance debris, and soil upcast from the digging of the ditch. These heaps are now largely scrub-covered, but displaced burnt mound material is visible in parts, and two timber planks -possibly originally derived from a trough -protrude from one of the spoil heaps. Notified to NMS by Leo Leydon. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 May 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Castlegowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Castlegowan · Caiseal Mhic Gabhann

Area

1,019,787 m² (101.98 ha, 251.99 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Cliffony South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cliffony South electoral division: 577 people in 216 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonerco, Drumfad, Gortnadrung, Moneylahan, Rathfrask

Placenames

Castlegowan 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.