Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyshannon, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Baile Nua
- Area
- 133.5 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 97
- registered freehold, median 1,244 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential / Infill
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 10 m² to 321,958 m² (32.2 ha, 79.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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
- R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Suncroft, Kildare · 2 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
27 Feb 2023Conditional
the removal of existing timber structure and replacement of same with bungalow, effluent treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23172
14 Dec 2022Conditional
the construction of a detached dormer house, single storey domestic garage, stable block (consisting of 3 stables, feed room and tack room), recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221484
10 Nov 2022N/a
the construction of a detached dormer house, single storey domestic garage, stable block (consisting of 3 stables, feed room and tack room), recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221344
23 Apr 2021Refused
the construction of a detached dormer house, single storey domestic garage, stable block (consisting of 3 stables, feed room and tack room), recessed entrance, secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21558
17 Nov 2020Conditional
a two story dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works,
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201381
4 Feb 2020Conditional
alterations to roof and extension to side of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2079
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 Newtown.
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_2542 (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
- 1,334,852 m² (133.49 ha, 329.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyshannon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Kilrush, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilrush electoral division: 698 people in 228 households; 92% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohergoy Lower, Bohergoy Upper, Carn, Common North, Common South, Crawnglass, Crockaun, Eaglehill, Mullaghmoyne West, Suncroft
- 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.