Newtown (Regan)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown (Regan), from 323 m² to 139,506 m² (13.95 ha, 34.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 (Regan) 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.

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage, on site waste water treatment/ percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 178 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191589

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  for construction of a slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank, creating a new farm entrance and all associated site development works (Gross floor space 509sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171850

• 23 Feb 2017Refused

  for construction of a slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank, creating a new farm entrance and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 509sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17251

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: Coole-Garryland Complex SAC 000252
• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252

Recorded monuments

• GA122-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (35m N-S; 28.3m E-W) is defined by a bank that is overgrown with trees and bushes for most of its circumference. The banks is also obscured by field-clearance rubble which has been dumped on and against it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_728 (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 (Regan) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Newtown (Regan) · An Baile Nua (Regan)

Area

566,190 m² (56.62 ha, 139.91 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

Ballysheedy, Castlequarter, Newtown, Newtown (Glynn), Sheeaun

Placenames

Newtown (Regan) 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.