Newtown (Glynn)

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown (Glynn), from 6,185 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres) to 131,879 m² (13.19 ha, 32.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 (Glynn) 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Newtown (Glynn) in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• GA122-120001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking lower marshy land and a small stream to the E. This fairly well-preserved subcircular enclosure (68m N-S; 62m E-W) is defined by a substantial grassed-over stony bank and a wide deep external fosse. The bank is visible all round but is denuded at NE and overgrown with thorn trees and briars at E; it is best preserved at NW (Wth 2m; int. H 1.9m; ext. H 3m). The fosse (Wth 4m; D 1.8m) is also best preserved at NW, elsewhere field-clearance rubble and felled trees have been dumped in it and it is almost totally infilled in the S sector as a result. A trackway cuts across both enclosing elements at NNE. The interior is divided along a natural scarp line by a stony bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.75m) running from NW to SE. There is a church (GA122-120002-) in the NNW sector and a small burial ground (GA122-120003-) in the SE sector. A holy well (GA122-121----) lies c. 90m to the ESE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 March 2020

• GA122-120002 Church
  Description

  Occupying the NNE sector of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA122-120001-), this rectangular church (11.2m NE-SW; 5.1m NW-SE; wall T 0.85-0.95m), which is heavily overgrown with ivy, was built on a foundation of large roughly squared limestone blocks. The walls of the NE and SW gables, and the SW side-wall are built of smaller roughly dressed and coursed mortared blocks. The NW wall is slightly different and consists of larger more squared off and more regularly coursed blocks, suggesting that it may be the wall of an earlier church that was subsequently enlarged. At a later period a tower (2.2m NE-SW; 1.4m NW-SE; wall T 0.75m), possibly a bell tower, was added to the N end of the SW gable; it is set slightly back from the gable wall. It is constructed of larger more randomly coursed blocks and it is not bonded into the fabric of the church. It appears to open into the church and it may have housed the stairs leading to a bell. The only architectural feature noted was a partially robbed-out window at ground level in the SW gable. The embrasure it is set in appears to continue to the top of the wall and a second window noted higher up in it on inspection in 1982 (SMR file) was not visible. A gap (Wth 2.7) at the E end of the SE side-wall may indicate the location of the doorway. There is also a separate burial ground (GA122-120003-) in the enclosure, it lies c. 40m to the SE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 March 2020

• GA122-120003 Burial ground
  Description

  Within the SE sector of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA122-120001-) and c. 40m to the SE of a church (GA122-120002-). This roughly subrectangular burial ground (14.3m E-W; 10m N-S) is defined by a wall (Wth 1.4m; H 0.2-0.65m) along the S, W and N sides and by the enclosing bank of the enclosure in the E sector. Apart from a flat uninscribed slab (L 0.8m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.08m), in the bushes just inside the bank at SE, and two moss-covered boulders, also in the SE sector, which may possibly be grave-markers, no obvious examples are evident. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 March 2020

• GA122-121 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On low-lying marshy ground immediately W of a small stream and c. 90m ESE of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA122-120001-). Named ‘Tobercronan’ on the 1838 and 1916 editions of the 6-inch OS maps. On inspection all that was visible was a muddy watering hole for livestock, with no structural features or votive offerings evident. However, its dedication to St Cronan and proximity to the ecclesiastical enclosure suggest that it was once regarded as a holy well. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2023

• GA122-140 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying marshy ground c. 20m to the W of a stream. This fulacht fia is defined by a well-preserved horseshoe-shaped mound (8.7m WNW-ESE; 6.4m SSE-NNW) opening to the SSE. Burnt stone and clay are visible and there are two set stones in the trough area. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtown (Glynn).

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_689 (ZIP).

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 (Glynn) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Newtown (Glynn) · An Baile Nua (Glynn)

Area

416,128 m² (41.61 ha, 102.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlequarter, Knockauncoura, Newtown (Regan), Sheeaun, Tawnagh East

Placenames

Newtown (Glynn) 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.