Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltenanlea, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish An Baile Nua
- Area
- 107.2 ha
- 265 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 3,571 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 19 m² to 198,724 m² (19.87 ha, 49.11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Newtown Cloonlara Cluster, Clare · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Clonlara Settlement Plan, Clare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jun 2026Conditional
to construct dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26150
28 Oct 2022Conditional
for the construction of a two storey detached house, a single storey detached garage, a new site entrance, connections to existing services and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22982
22 Feb 2021Conditional
to construct street lighting over the entire length of its gravel walkway and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21150
5 Feb 2018Conditional
for development which will consist of a sixty metre by forty metre Astro Turf and a forty metre hurling wall with four columns of flood lighting
Permission · Clare County Council, 1875
1 Feb 2018Conditional
to construct extension to existing dwelling house, garage with office on first floor, fuel shed, greenhouse, tennis court, waste water treatment system, percolation area, and to demolish front porch and small rear extension of existing dwelling, existing haybarn and derelict sheds and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 1861
6 Feb 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of the erection of floodlighting and a hurling wall and laying of a pathway
Permission · Clare County Council, 1770
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
- CL053-043 Castle - unclassified
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 18 December 2014
- CL053-048 Earthwork
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.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_994 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Newtown, Clonlara6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Newtown · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 1,071,669 m² (107.17 ha, 264.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltenanlea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Kiltenanlea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kiltenanlea electoral division: 1,987 people in 660 households; 87% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonlara, Mountcatherine, Oakfield, Ruanard, Springfield
- 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.