Newstown

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newstown, from 72 m² to 1,027,687 m² (102.77 ha, 253.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Newstown 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 Nov 2024Conditional

  (i) the construction of a new building of 881m2 to house 16 no. 3.8m diameter and 13.5m height malted grain silos and associated gantries, 2 no. grain cleaners and associated plant along with bulk out loading facility, (ii) construction of a new boiler house of 95m2 and a new ESB substation and customer switch room of 25m2, (iii) construction of 6 no. 22m diameter and 21.5m height grain storage silos with associated underground conveyor system along with gantries and ancillary equipment to a max height of 25.2m to replace the previously approved 2 no. grain storage buildings as part of planning ref no. 23/2 (iv) relocation of existing weighbridge and construction of a new weighbridge (v) relocation of previously approved Modular Malting Units, Storage Shed and 4 No. Stainless Steel Cylindrical Water Storage Tanks (planning ref no. 23/2) (vi) all on a new concrete apron along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460379

• 26 Nov 2024N/a

  (i) the construction of a new building of 881m2 to house 16 no. 3.8m diameter and 13.5m height malted grain silos and associated gantries, 2 no. grain cleaners and associated plant along with bulk out loading facility, (ii) construction of a new boiler house of 95m2 and a new ESB substation and customer switch room of 25m2, (iii) construction of 6 no. 22m diameter and 21.5m height grain storage silos with associated underground conveyor system along with gantries and ancillary equipment to a max height of 25.2m to replace the previously approved 2 no. grain storage buildings as part of planning ref no. 23/2 (iv) relocation of existing weighbridge and construction of a new weighbridge (v) relocation of previously approved Modular Malting Units, Storage Shed and 4 No. Stainless Steel Cylindrical Water Storage Tanks (planning ref no. 23/2) (vi) all on a new concrete apron along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460377

• 10 Jan 2023Conditional

  to construct 1) 2No. Grain stores, 2) Modular Malting Units 3) Storage Shed to house 2No. Water Filtration Units with 4No. Stainless Steel Cylindrical Water Storage Tanks and 4) 3 No. Silos with concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 232

• 7 Dec 2022N/a

  1) 2No. Grain Stores, 2) Modular Malting Units 3) Storage Shed to House 2No. Water Filtration Units with 4No. Stainless Steel Cylindrical Water Storage Tanks and 4) 3 No. Silos with concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 22421

• 14 Nov 2022N/a

  to construct 1) 2No. Grain Stores, 2) Modular malting units 3) Storage Shed to House 2No. Water Filtration Units with 4No. Stainless Steel Cylindrical Water Storage Tanks and 4) 3 No. Silos with concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 22388

• 22 Aug 2022Conditional

  for a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 22274

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 Newstown.

Recorded monuments

• CW014-003 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Conical mound with small summit (H 2.7m; base diam. 15m) at centre of circular area (max. diam. c. 50m) enclosed by fosse with drystone facing on outer face only (distance from mound to fosse 12m). Marked 'Rabbit Warren' on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map.

Architectural heritage

• Newstown House, gate lodge, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c. 1825. Gateway, c. 1825, comprising granite ashlar piers with ball finials and flanking walls having iron gates.

• Newstown House, country house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, c. 1824, with granite Doric portico and bow windows to sides. Designed by Thomas Cobden, c. 1824. Part remodelled. Designed by James Sands. Interior retains colonnaded hall, chimney pieces and enriched friezes.

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 Newstown, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Newstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Newstown · An Chloch Nua

Area

2,629,573 m² (262.96 ha, 649.78 acres)

Civil parish

Ardoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Ballintemple, the unit of the census

Census 2022

599 people lived in 210 households in the Ballintemple electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardoyne (Co. Wicklow), Craans, Leany, Money Lower (Co. Wicklow)

Placenames

Newstown 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.