Newtown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 1,861 m² to 291,353 m² (29.14 ha, 71.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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.

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to existing dwelling consisting of the following: (1) To construct a new single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling (2) To construct a new single storey extension to side of new proposed extension for use as a granny flat and (3) To replace existing septic tank and percolation area with a new secondary wastewater treatment system and tertiary filter and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6846

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  To construct (i) overground slurry store and (ii) cubicle shed extension with slatted tank, (iii) roofed collecting yard and handling yard extension (iv) extension to dairy room and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6493

• 27 Jun 2008Conditional

  Dwelling and installation of wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7567

• 20 Jun 2008Conditional

  Easy feed cubicle house extension, a steel slurry tower and a soiled water tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7384

• 8 Feb 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4660

• 14 Nov 2005Conditional

  Renovations and one and a half storey extension to dwelling, garage, entrance and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8380

• 27 Jul 2005Conditional

  Demolition of dairy and construction of milking parlour, cattle handling facilities and concrete yards

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5372

• 18 Feb 2004Conditional

  Bungalow

  Approval · Cork County Council, 04/958

• 5 Mar 2003New application

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/924

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

• CO017-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level tillage. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1906 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured bank SW->NNE and hachured scarp elsewhere (diam. c. 35m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information levelled c. 1968 during land reclamation project. Inspection by OPW on 09-10-1968 described area as surrounded by dense scrub and almost inaccessible; low bank and partially waterlogged interior noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO017-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, atop rise on SSW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured square enclosure (c. 25m N-S; c. 25m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; outline of bank visible as low rise, enclosing circular area (c. 26m E-W). Circular enclosure visible as soilmark of bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R691). In Barry's (1981, 83, no. 59) list of moated sites for County Cork, from cartographic evidence. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 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.

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. Cork.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

819,169 m² (81.92 ha, 202.42 acres)

Civil parish

Doneraile, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Doneraile, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doneraile electoral division: 1,555 people in 599 households; 67% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Brough, Carker, Carkerbeg, Castlepook South, Garryhintoge, Knockbrack

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.