Newtownburke

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownburke, from 42 m² to 109,943 m² (10.99 ha, 27.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Newtownburke 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.

• 27 Nov 2025Refused

  ERECTION OF 3 NO. GLAMPING PODS, CAR PARKING AREA, PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562083

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460304

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152039

• 6 Aug 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051081

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951945

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190

Recorded monuments

• DG073-018 Cross-slab
  Description

  A stone slab 1.05m high, .35m wide and up to .15m thick. On one face is a Latin cross with T-bar terminals. A cross on the other side is nearer in shape to the Greek form. It also has T-bar terminals. It is at present located beside a field boundary in marshy pasture land, but is not in situ and its original location is unknown. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG073-020 Cross-slab
  Description

  An irregularly-shaped slab .7m in height and 0.6m in maximum width. The stone is aligned E-W. There is a Greek cross with T-bar endings on each face. The slab is located in a field boundary in marshy pasture land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG073-021 Cross-slab
  Description

  A trapezoidal-shaped slab .7m x .13m to .28m x .13m has been re-erected on a cairn 8.1m x 6.2m and 2m in height. A Latin cross with T-bar endings is inscribed on both sides. The site is located on a small mound of rock outcrop N of Maghera strand on generally barren land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Newtownburke.

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 Newtownburke with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Newtownburke · Baile an Bhúrcaigh

Area

613,230 m² (61.32 ha, 151.53 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Glengesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glengesh electoral division: 694 people in 263 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghboy, Crannogeboy, Drumirrin, Liskeeraghan

Placenames

Newtownburke 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.