Newabbey
Townland in the civil parish of Brannockstown, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Mhainistir Nua
- Area
- 82.4 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 7,980 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres)
- Zoning
- G4
- Open Space and Amenity
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newabbey, from 195 m² to 568,039 m² (56.8 ha, 140.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Kilcullen Settlement Plan, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agricultural (Agriculture)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 (Variation 3) - Kilcullen Settlement Plan, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Newabbey 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newabbey.
Recorded monuments
- KD028-066 House - 17th century
Description
According to Tickell (1960, 392), ‘… about 1645, an old estate map shows … New Abbey House.’ According to Bence-Jones (1988, 222), the present Newabbey House, of two stories over basement, was built c. 1775. It may stand on or close to the site of the earlier, 17th-century house? Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 15 May 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newabbey.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Newabbey.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newabbey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Newabbey · An Mhainistir Nua
- Area
- 823,580 m² (82.36 ha, 203.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brannockstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas South
- Electoral division
- Gilltown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gilltown electoral division: 1,028 people in 352 households; 84% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Grangemore, Kilcullenbridge, Knockatippaun, Logstown, Milemill, Nicholastown
- Placenames
- Newabbey 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.