Gowlan

Gowlan (from Irish Gabhlán, meaning 'A Little Fork between Two Streams') is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland.

Its chief geographical features are Derrynananta Lough,[2] forestry plantations, waterfalls, gravel pits and mountain streams.

In earlier times the townland was probably uninhabited as it consists mainly of bog and poor clay soils.

It was not seized by the English during the Plantation of Ulster in 1610 or in the Cromwellian Settlement of the 1660s so some dispossessed Irish families moved there and began to clear and farm the land.

Lowther Kirkwood of Mullinagrave, parish of Templeport, Co. Cavan, gentleman made the following will- 2 July 1804.

To his grandnephew Lowther Brien, city of Dublin, attorney, and his heirs his lands of Awengallis, Ballylenan, Ballymagirill, Stranadarragh, Carnagimlie, Cullagh, Drumleden, Leitry, Corlagh, Lananleragh, Gowlanlea and Drumlogher, Co. Cavan, held under lease from the Beresford family.

[5] The 1836 Ordnance Survey Namebooks state- There is a large mountain stream through the centre of the townland.