Newtownhamilton

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownhamilton, from 295 m² to 59,028 m² (5.9 ha, 14.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Newtownhamilton 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.

• 29 Nov 2025Conditional

  DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTED DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND (2) REPLACEMENT AND RELOCATION OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562102

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462122

• 25 May 2023Conditional

  (A) EXTENSION TO EXISTING PACKAGING BUILDING ON GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR, (B) RELOCATION OF TRAY WASH FACILITY, IN NEW EXTENSION TO GROUND FLOOR, (C) EXISTING TRAY WASH AREA TO BE CHANGED TO PACKAGING AREA, (D) RELOCATION OF EXISTING GAS OIL AND SRM TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, (E) PROVISION OF A TWO STOREY PLANT ROOM ATTACHED TO TRAY STORE, (F) BONE TRAILER YARD COVERED AND (G) CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND STORM DRAINAGE WITHIN EXISTING SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350729

• 13 Jan 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250020

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 Newtownhamilton.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtownhamilton.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Newtownhamilton, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newtownhamilton.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Newtownhamilton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Newtownhamilton

Area

173,063 m² (17.31 ha, 42.76 acres)

Civil parish

Killea, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumnashear, Dunmore, Glasmullan, Whitehouse

Placenames

Newtownhamilton 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.