Newtown Little
Townland in the civil parish of Rathmore, barony of Naas North, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Baile Nua Beag
- Area
- 9.5 ha
- 23 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 47,330 m² (4.73 ha, 11.7 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential / Infill
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown Little, from 33,627 m² (3.36 ha, 8.31 acres) to 61,032 m² (6.1 ha, 15.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 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 - Blessington, Kildare · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Blessington Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Blessington, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Blessington Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Blessington, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Blessington Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 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
8 Jan 2025Conditional
a first floor extension to the side of existing dwelling along with the widening of existing entrance all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560007
2 May 2023Conditional
a two storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling along with all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23459
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 Little.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown Little.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtown Little.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2909 (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 Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown Little · An Baile Nua Beag
- Area
- 94,640 m² (9.46 ha, 23.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Naas North
- Electoral division
- Newtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newtown electoral division: 1,019 people in 303 households; 92% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blessington (Co. Wicklow), Blessington Demesne (Co. Wicklow), Burgage More (Co. Wicklow), Kilmalum, Newtownpark
- Placenames
- Newtown Little 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.