Newpark
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeage, barony of Connell, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 88.3 ha
- 218 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 95,407 m² (9.54 ha, 23.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newpark, from 21,215 m² (2.12 ha, 5.24 acres) to 264,493 m² (26.45 ha, 65.36 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
No zone of a development plan covers Newpark 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Dec 2025Conditional
single storey dwelling, new site entrance, effluent treatment plant, landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561463
18 Nov 2024Conditional
for single storey dwelling, new site entrance, effluent treatment plant, landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461217
6 Jul 2022N/a
for converting Broadleaf High Forest to Mixed High Forest (Removal of diseased ash forest and replacement with a mixture of broadleaf and conifer species)
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22817
16 Jul 2020Conditional
(A) Retention permission for existing grain store & drying building as constructed. (B) Full permission for new extension to existing grain store building. (C) All associated site development works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 20771
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments
- KD018-047 Designed landscape - ornamental lake
Description
Partial cropmark of ornamental pond belonging to Newpark House located 150m to NW visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. ornamental pond depicted on the revised ed. OS 6-inch map See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the ornamental pond based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Anthony Murphy Date of upload: 19 February 2019
- KD018-048 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 34m) with possible entrance gap at E visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the enclosure based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Anthony Murphy Date of upload: 19 February 2019
- KD018-049 Settlement deserted - medieval
Description
Cropmark of possible deserted medieval settlement visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of possible settlement based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Anthony Murphy Date of upload: 19 February 2019
Architectural heritage
- Pim Bridge, bridge, 1790–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch rubble stone hump back road bridge over canal, c.1810, with dressed stone voussoirs, rubble stone parapet walls and cut-stone date stone/plaque. Rubble stone walls. Rubble stone parapet walls. Single segmental arch. Dressed stone voussoirs. Squared rubble stone soffits with traces of render over. Sited spanning Grand Canal (Milltown Branch) with grass banks to canal.
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 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_2538 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Newpark
- Area
- 883,315 m² (88.33 ha, 218.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeage, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connell
- Electoral division
- Kilmeage South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeage South electoral division: 2,224 people in 743 households; 72% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintine, Cloncumber, Killeagh
- Placenames
- Newpark 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.