Newborough
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmonoge, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish An Baile Nua
- Area
- 55.7 ha
- 138 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 1,893 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newborough, from 272 m² to 548,420 m² (54.84 ha, 135.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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
No zone of a development plan covers Newborough 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Feb 2017Unconditional
Removal of the existing roof of cottage and for the replacing of same at a higher level with a pitched roof of fibre/cement slates on a traditional timber roof construction. Permission is also sought for a ground floor extension to the cottage which is also to incorporate a pitched roof to match that specified for the cottage and for the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment unit to serve the cottage and for all associated site works including the de-commissioning of the existing septic tank which serves the cottage at present - Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Pl. Reg. No. 12/4205
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 17/4309
2 Jul 2014Conditional
Amendment to Planning Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 12/5950 for restoration and extension to Newborough House. Amendment to consist of a reduced single storey extension to dwelling at basement level on the Western elevation, omission of door at basement level to Eastern elevation, new door at basement level and window instead of door at ground floor level both on the Western elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5407
30 May 2014Incompleted application
Alteration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 12/5950 to restore Newborough House from a single storey extension on the basement to the West to a reduced single storey extension at basement level
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5146
21 May 2014Incompleted application
Alteration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 12/5950 to restore Newborough House from a single storey extension to basement to the West to a reduced single storey extension at basement level.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5057
13 Sept 2012Conditional
Restoration of Newborough House a Recorded Monument (C0112:057) with the addition of a single storey extension on basement to the west with a sewage treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5950
10 Feb 2012Conditional
removal of the existing roof of cottage and for the replacing of same at a higher level with a pitched roof of fibre/cement slates on a traditional timber roof construction. Permission is also sought for a ground floor extension to the cottage which is also to incorporate a pitched roof to match that specified for the cottage and for the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment unit to serve the cottage and for all associated site works including the de-commissioning of the existing septic tank which serves the cottage at present
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4205
25 Jun 2010Withdrawn
Extension to cottage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5569
11 Dec 2008Conditional
Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit to replace existing septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10075
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 Newborough.
Recorded monuments
- CO112-043 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Oval area (29.2m E-W; 21.4m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m) SW->E; scarp (H 2m) elsewhere; external fosse (D 1.4m) SW->E. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO112-057 Country house
Description
Ruined late 18th/early 19th century 3-storey house over basement. Entrance front (N); central bay flanked by 2-bay, 3-storey bows; W bow collapsed. Central fanlighted doorway flanked by limestone pilasters. Steps over basement up to doorway. Viewfront (S) of 4 bays. Round-headed stairway window over oculus in W elevation. Roof hipped, partially collapsed. Well preserved Victorian steward's house. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
- Gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay single-storey with dormer attic former gate lodge, built c.1820, having gable-fronted porch to front (west), recent single-storey extension to rear (east) and single-storey hipped roofed box-bay to side (north). Now in use as house. Pitched replacement slate roofs with overhanging eaves, having paired red brick octagonal chimneystacks, rendered eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods. Exposed rubble limestone walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills throughout, having moulded render surrounds and uPVC casement windows. Lancet window openings with limestone sills to side (south) elevation, having moulded render surrounds and fixed single-pane windows. Pointed arch door opening with moulded render surround and timber battened door. Rubble limestone enclosing walls with square-profile having solider limestone copings and caps with timber pedestrian gate.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Newborough.
- 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
No address of the register names Newborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Newborough · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 557,139 m² (55.71 ha, 137.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmonoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Kilmonoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmonoge electoral division: 1,337 people in 416 households; 82% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnaboha, Ballingeemanigbeg, Coolnagaug, Ringville
- Placenames
- Newborough 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.