# Newtownhamilton, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killea, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 173,063 m² (17.31 ha, 42.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,054 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killea, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killea.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Killea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15283 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52161 - Centre: latitude 54.951945, longitude -7.407881 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownhamilton, from 295 m² to 59,028 m² (5.9 ha, 14.59 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1378706: 59,028 m² (5.9 ha, 14.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378706.md - Parcel 5025869: 38,119 m² (3.81 ha, 9.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5025869.md - Parcel 3664576: 27,845 m² (2.78 ha, 6.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664576.md - Parcel 1395359: 16,335 m² (1.63 ha, 4.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395359.md - Parcel 1391322: 7,246 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391322.md - Parcel 1339927: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339927.md - Parcel 1305458: 2,386 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305458.md - Parcel 1309950: 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309950.md - Parcel 1332836: 2,337 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332836.md - Parcel 4734040: 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4734040.md - Parcel 1392165: 1,937 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392165.md - Parcel 1406043: 1,894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406043.md - Parcel 1373013: 1,781 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373013.md - Parcel 1315280: 1,663 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315280.md - Parcel 1407800: 1,170 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407800.md - Parcel 1388894: 1,129 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388894.md - Parcel 1417148: 1,007 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417148.md - Parcel 1386948: 1,006 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386948.md - Parcel 1393934: 948 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393934.md - Parcel 3664575: 295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664575.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 29 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2562102: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562102/0 - 18 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2462122: Conditional. Permission. ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2462122/0 - 25 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350729: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350729/0 - 13 Jan 2022, Donegal County Council 2250020: Refused. Extension of duration, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250020/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newtownhamilton. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtownhamilton. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtownhamilton. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newtownhamilton.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newtownhamilton.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newtownhamilton.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Newtownhamilton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drumnashear: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnashear.md - Dunmore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dunmore-51175.md - Glasmullan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glasmullan-51301.md - Whitehouse: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitehouse.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newtownhamilton - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/newtownhamilton