Newtown

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 761 m² to 77,057 m² (7.71 ha, 19.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Newtown 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.

• 28 Jul 2025Conditional

  for (1) the construction of a new single storey 3 bedroom pitched roof side extension with a flat roof link, to the existing single storey detached dwelling. The existing dwelling will converted to a granny flat and the extension will provide for the ancillary accommodation to accommodate an immediate family member (2) decommission existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, and (3) all necessary ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560427

• 21 Jun 2025N/a

  for (1) the construction of a new single storey 3 bedroom pitched roof side extension with a flat roof link, to the existing single storey detached dwelling. The existing dwelling will converted to a granny flat and the extension will provide for the ancillary accommodation to accommodate an immediate family member (2) decommission existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, and (3) all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560322

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a storey and a half extension to the front of the existing bungalow dwelling, and internal alterations to the existing dwelling layout and all ancillary site works. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560012

• 16 Jan 2025N/a

  for the construction of a storey and a half extension to the front of the existing bungalow dwelling, and internal alterations to the existing dwelling layout and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560010

• 25 Oct 2017Conditional

  the construction of single storey bungalow, domestic garage, on site waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance, walls, piers and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17459

• 12 Jul 2017N/a

  of construction of single storey bungalow, domestic garage, on site waste water system and percolation area, entrance, walls, piers and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17311

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 Newtown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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 Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Newtown

Area

497,139 m² (49.71 ha, 122.85 acres)

Civil parish

Denn, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Denn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Denn electoral division: 707 people in 245 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dennbane, Dennmore or Leggandenn, Derry, Drumcanon, Killynanum

Placenames

Newtown 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.