Garnagowlan

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garnagowlan, from 81 m² to 121,756 m² (12.18 ha, 30.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Garnagowlan 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.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  RED III application Level 1 - consist of a ten year planning permission to develop an electricity service, entailing the laying of approximately 23.9 kilometers of 38kV cable from the consented Ballymanus Wind Farm (Reg. Ref. 17/814) to connect the wind farm to the national grid at the existing Arklow 220kV ESB Station, County Wicklow, the proposed grid connection will be installed within existing private tracks and public roadway and include, provision of joint bays, draw pits, communication chambers, three phase electrical cables, optical fibre cables and cable sheath sectionalising chambers, water and rail crossings by (i) bridge crossings, (ii) horizontal directional drilling and iii) guided auger bore, limited ancillary forestry felling to facilitate construction and operation of the proposed development, reinstatement of land, road and track surface above the proposed cabling trench, all associated ancillary works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU)2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act, as amended, When a notice issues in accordence with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660755

• 28 Jul 2025N/a

  demolition of existing dwelling on site and construction of a replacement dwelling in the same location

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 25213

• 3 Apr 2025Conditional

  construction of a single storey detached training room structure, ancillary to the main Club House, with new course WC connected to the existing wastewater treatment facility on site and all associated landscaping works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560242

• 18 Apr 2024Conditional

  a) Partial demolition of the existing single-story dwelling, including changes to fenestration and internal layouts and rear extension, b) Construction of a new pitched roof and dormer extension, c) Demolition of the existing garage and construction of a new split-level section connected to the main house via a flat roof link d) Construction of a new septic tank, percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460222

• 1 Aug 2023Refused

  the development will consist of (a) a partial demolition of the existing single-story dwelling, garage and store building, including (b) changes to fenestration and internal layouts, (c) construction of first-floor flat roof extensions to both and (d) single-story link connecting both buildings to create one habitable use (e) construction of a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360190

• 28 Feb 2022Conditional

  construction of a 40 bedroom extension to existing hotel as granted under PRR 02/6916 & 03/8031, including associated alterations and additions to existing car park layout and associated works to existing effluent treatment system, together with revisions to site boundaries, all together with associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22178

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a bicycle shelter and storage, including ancillary walkers equipment storage/drying room and garden maintenance equipment storage room, all together with associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211557

• 8 Jun 2017Conditional

  domestic garage and associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17674

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley 001748

Recorded monuments

• WI040-014 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular feature cut by road to NW indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map (map dims. diam. c. 23m). When inspected by the ASI in 1990 it appeared to be under the car park of Woodenbridge Golf Club. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 September 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3266 (ZIP).

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 Garnagowlan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Garnagowlan · Garraí na nGabhlán

Area

887,281 m² (88.73 ha, 219.25 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ovoca, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ovoca electoral division: 728 people in 263 households; 74% of households own their home; 10% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballanagh, Ballinamona, Ballyarthur, Castlemacadam, Coolgarrow, Kilcarra West, Parknashaw

Placenames

Garnagowlan 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.