Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of Killashee, barony of Naas South, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Baile Nua
- Area
- 83.5 ha
- 206 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 12,436 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 6,009 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres) to 22,944 m² (2.29 ha, 5.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Newtown 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
10 Oct 2025Conditional
of extension to existing stable block consisting of 2no. stables and 2no. plant rooms with all associated site development and facilitating works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2561151
23 May 2024Conditional
for a) American barn incorporating 12nr stables, 4nr foaling units, tack room, plant room, medicine and feed room, b) hay barn with plant room c) horse walker, d) lunging ring, e) all weather paddock, f) manure pit and effluent tank, g) double loading ramp, h) upgrading of existing entrance to new agricultural entrance detail with all associated site development and facilitating works
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460453
4 Feb 2022Conditional
for the following works, planning permission for a) demolition of existing stables & shed, b) construction of new stable block incorporating 12nr stables, 2nr foaling units, tack room, plant rooms, medicine and feed rooms, c) manure pit and effluent tank, d) upgrading of existing residential entrance to new agricultural entrance detail with all associated site development and facilitating works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of proposed new Wastewater Treatment System to serve existing dwelling.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 22113
12 Apr 2018Conditional
(a) Construction of a new four bedroom two-storey type dwelling; (b) New septic tank and percolation area; (c) Alterations to existing recessed entrance; (d) New American style hay barn, stable building (234sqm); (e) Retention of existing stable building (70sqm) also retention of existing dungstead. Along with all facilitating and associated site development works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; revised location of proposed vehicle entrance and also revised location of the proposed American hay barn building within the originally proposed site
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18408
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtown.
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_2725 (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 Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 835,008 m² (83.5 ha, 206.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killashee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas South
- Electoral division
- Ladytown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ladytown electoral division: 990 people in 317 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Jigginstown, Newland North, Newland South, Rathasker
- Placenames
- Newtown 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.