Newtown (Lynott)

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown (Lynott), from 3,099 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) to 702,247 m² (70.22 ha, 173.53 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 (Lynott) 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.

• 31 Jan 2022Conditional

  to construct a six bay machinery/straw store on their lands (gross floor space 761sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2298

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 (Lynott).

Recorded monuments

• GA030-108 Enclosure
  Description

  On a S slope in otherwise low-lying pastureland. A small stream flows to SE. A square enclosure (N-S 40m, E-W 40m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present at SE, W and NNW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell barn-type Roman Catholic church, built c.1840, having five-bay side elevations, low gabled porch to middle of north elevation with cross finial, and later sacristy to north-east. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings to gables, slightly later bellcote at west end, and eaves with moulded cast-iron gutters supported on stone brackets. Walls have painted roughcast render. Pointed windows to nave, with raised limestone surrounds with sloping sills. Pointed window to gable-front lights gallery. Stained-glass window to east gable. Doorway in gable-front has four-centred arch with simple limestone architrave and two-leaf battened timber door. Porch has tripartite arrangement to front, with pointed arch recess to centre having statue of Saint Patrick, flanked by square-headed sidelights, all with hood-moulding, and with low buttresses to corners of porch, and square-headed doorway to east side wall. Interior plain with deep gallery having panelled front, and marble reredos and altar. Ceiling boarded in.

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 (Lynott).

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

Name

Newtown (Lynott) · An Baile Nua (Lynott)

Area

723,196 m² (72.32 ha, 178.71 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Carrowrevagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowrevagh electoral division: 485 people in 162 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron, Drumaskin, Knockavanny, Newtown (Darcy)

Placenames

Newtown (Lynott) 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.