Newtown

271 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 4 m² to 220,767 m² (22.08 ha, 54.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 55 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 154 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 98 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 59 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Green Infrastructure (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Permission for a residential development consisting of 42 no. houses, and 8 no. apartments and all associated site works including installation of roads, footpaths, playground, public lighting, services and landscaping, at Milleencoola, Bantry, Co. Cork for Mylo Lab Ltd.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2148

• 3 Jul 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Construction of a domestic garage plus to carry out all assoc. site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1788

• 7 May 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for the following changes to existing dwelling house: (i) construction of extension to rear, (ii) fenestration changes, (iii) demolition of 2 no. outbuildings, (iv) construction of garden room with attached storage building, (v) demolition of front boundary and replacement of same, and (vi) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1192

• 7 May 2026Invalid - case closed

  Construction of a domestic garage plus to carry out all assoc. site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1194

• 5 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Demolition of an existing dwelling, construct a new single storey dwelling, install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1161

• 5 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Demolition of an existing dwelling, construct a new single storey dwelling, install a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1158

• 12 Mar 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for the following works to existing dwelling-house: (1) retention of extension to dwelling, (2) removal of 2 no. dormer windows, (3) removal of 3 no. chimney stacks, (4) installation of 2 no. pairs of roof lights to front elevation and 2 no. roof lights to rear, (5) fenestration changes, and (6) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0612

• 6 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Vantage Towers Limited application to install a 21m monopole type telecommunications support structure carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fenced compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works within the grounds of Bantry Blues GAA,Wolfe Tone Park, Newtown, Bantry, Co. Cork.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0255

• 6 Nov 2023Conditional

  Construct a straw bedded sheep house with hay and straw storage area, seepage holding tank, site entrance, internal access road and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/628

• 30 Aug 2023Unconditional

  a) Increase in size of existing second pitch, b) Erect floodlighting to second pitch, c) Erect new metal boundary fence to part of boundary, d) Construct hurling alley, e) Changes to car parking area and internal access road, f) Pedestrian walkways around main pitch with connections to car park

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 23/484

• 2 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission is being sought for the change of use of part of existing storage shed / garage to self-contained habitable accommodation ancillary in use to the main dwelling house including the following: (i) retention of external fenestration changes, (ii) permission for installation of new patio doors, (iii) decommissioning of existing septic tank system and installation of wastewater pumping station to discharge to public sewer and (iv) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/432

• 7 Jul 2023Incompleted application

  Permission for change of use of part of existing storage shed / garage to habitable use, ancillary to the main dwelling house including the following: (i) retention of external fenestration changes, (ii) permission for installation of new patio doors, (iii) decommissioning of existing septic tank system and installation of wastewater pumping station to discharge to public sewer and (iv) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/380

• 9 May 2023Refused

  Construct a sheep house with hay and straw storage area, site entrance, internal access road and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/248

• 8 Mar 2023Refused

  Permission for: (a) construction of new detached domestic garage (b) change of use of an existing storage shed / garage to habitable use, as a granny flat ancillary to the main dwelling house including the following: (i) retention of external fenestration changes, (ii) permission for new fenestration changes including installation of new window, patio doors and rooflight, (iii) decommissioning of existing septic tank system and installation of wastewater pumping station to discharge to public sewer and (iv) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/120

• 4 Aug 2022Conditional permission

  Construction of a single storey dwelling house, installation of new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/498

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  Construction of a detached dwelling house and waste water treatment system to serve the dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/431

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  Retention of: a) existing dwelling and garage as constructed and b) all associated siteworks

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/427

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  Permission for: (i) retention of store to side of dwelling, (ii) permission for construction of 2 storey extension to dwelling, (iii) enlargement of entrance, (iv) construction of 1 no. additional parking space, and (v) associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/282

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  Permission for the following works to fire-damaged cottage (i) re-construction of roof, (ii) re-construction of porch (iii) extension to rear, (iv) fenestration changes, and (v) associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/236

• 8 Feb 2022Conditional permission

  Permission for retention of 2 no. extensions and minor alterations to elevations of dwelling hosue and retention of 2 no. stores

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 22/58

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  Demolish existing dwelling and to construct a single storey dwellinghouse and domestic store, and undertake all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/880

• 9 Dec 2021Incompleted application

  Demolish existing dwelling and to construct a single storey dwellinghouse and domestic store, and undertake all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/859

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  Placement of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for residual waste and food waste and a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for dry recyclables. This activity requires the developers to possess a waste collection permit/certificate of registration

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/628

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional permission

  Permission sought to (A) Complete 8 no. dwellings (house numbers 17-24 inclusive) currrently at various stages of construction (permitted as part of Development granted under Permission ABP.88.221631) (B) Construct the remaining 18 dwellings (house numbers 1-16 inclusive & No.'s 25 and 26) as previously permitted under Permission ABP.88.221631 (C) Construct all Estate roads, footpaths, boundary walls, open spaces, public lighting, recycling stand area, underground surface water attenuation tank and all other associated site works including connection to mains sewers and water supply. Previous Planning Permission Ref. No.'s 06/782, ABP.88.221631 and Extension of Durations Ref. No.'s 12/00373 & 17/00536 all refer.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/533

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  to demolish an existing dwelling, construct 2no. new single storey dwellings, install 2 no. wastewater treatment systems & percolation areas and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/490

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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

• CO118-002001 Bastioned fort
  Description

  On top of a knoll on a slight promontory at E end of Bantry bay. Now heavily overgrown and difficult to make out. The ditch is preserved (Wth 4-4.5m; D 1.5-2m) and shows the outline of a roughly square fort (70m square) with pointed bastions at each corner; entrance to S; well in interior. Built in 1650s by Orrery; re-fortified in 1672 but demolished in 1689 (Gowan 1979, 251-3). Contemporary with the fort was a village known as Newtown which had a population of 119 in 1659 (Hourihan 1977, 86) but disappeared shortly afterwards. It was situated immediately NE of the fort (local tradition): no visible remains. See Breen, C. 2002 'Newtown; 17-century fort and village' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 50-51. Wordwell Ltd, Bray. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO118-002002 Country house
  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.

• CO118-002003 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, overlooking Bantry Bay. D-shaped area, straight axis E-W (27.2m); projecting to N (23.4m). Interior enclosed by low earthen bank (H1.05m) with break (Wth 10m) at SE corner. Vegetation pattern suggests external fosse on W. According to local tradition, a windmill stood here. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO118-002004 Settlement cluster
  Description

  The establishment and development of Newtown settlement has been described by Breen (2007, 133-40). The settlement, c. 1km N of Bantry, was established by Broghil in the mid-17th century, sometime after the establishment of Newtown bastioned fort (CO118-002001-) in the early 1650s. The Census of Ireland in 1659 records that Newtown had then a population of 119, 34 of whom were English and 85 were Irish. The occupation of the settlement appears to have been short lived, its demise seems to have resulted from direct economic competition with Bantry (Ballygubbin Towne). Two differing plans of Newtown survive from the 1680s: Thomas Philip's vista of Bantry Bay and a French map of 1687-8. The settlement was abandoned by the end of the 17th century and was later incorporated into an 18th-century demesne (Breen 2002, 51). Excavations were undertaken in Newtown in 2000 on the deserted settlement and the site of the mid-17th century bastioned fort (CO118-002001-) (Breen 2000; 2002, 50-51). A test trench (7m x 1m) was opened up on the periphery of the settlement where geophysics had revealed a series of roughly rectangular property boundaries (c. 20m x 10m) and lanes or hollow-ways (Wth 3-4m) running through the area. Excavations uncovered the foundations of the gable end of a possible house structure which was rectangular in plan. The structure would appear to have been a timber-frame construction, built on basal wooden sills with a slated roof (Breen 2007, 139). This house was very clearly dateable to the late 1650s and early 1660s, as evidenced by clay tobacco finds from secure contexts of the structure (ibid., 138). According to Breen (ibid., 139), the structural character of the building is clearly English and the material culture, as defined by a number of pottery sherds which are all English wares, would also support the assignation of an English ethnic identity for the occupants of the building. (Breen 2000; 2002, 50-51; 2007) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO118-002005 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on NNE-facing slope. Raised sub-rectangular area (23.5m NW-SE; 15.4m max. NE-SW) bounded to S by field boundary running SE-NW. Internal bank (H 0.5m) to SE and NW. Possible souterrain (CO118-002006-) in NW corner. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO118-002006 Souterrain
  Description

  Depression, c. 7m inside NW bank enclosure (CO118-002005-), indicates presence of souterrain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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

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 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; parts are made ground and water.

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.

• Newtown, Bantry16 sales

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

1,349,295 m² (134.93 ha, 333.42 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmocomoge, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Bantry Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bantry Urban electoral division: 3,358 people in 1,345 households; 51% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherdaniel East, Caherdaniel West, Drombrow, Dunnamark Mill-Lot, Lahadane, Milleencoola, Reenrour East, Reenrour West, Slip, Town Lots

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.