Newtownbert

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownbert, from 166 m² to 454,285 m² (45.43 ha, 112.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Newtownbert 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.

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  upgrading of existing wastewater treatment system and for retention of existing pitched roof

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 23845

• 13 Aug 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing garden shed, decommissioning of existing well, development of a new two storey dwelling house, connections to mains sewer and mains water supply, a new entrance and all associated site development works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of revised plans to a dormer style dwelling house, additional data to include a proposed on site wastewater treatment system and local need further information

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20906

• 2 Jun 2020N/a

  (ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307284.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP ) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Kilberry Bog Group

  N/a · Kildare County Council, 20307284

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newtownbert.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtownbert.

Architectural heritage

• P. Jones, RIC barracks, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gable-fronted former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks with half-dormer attic, c.1880, with single-bay single-storey lean-to flanking end bays. Renovated, c.1980, to accommodate part private residential and part commercial use. Now in residential use. Gable-ended (gable-fronted) roof with slate (lean-to to flanking end bays behind parapet walls). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Painted to front (west) elevation. Unpainted to remainder. Rendered dressings to gable front forming pediment. Roughcast parapet walls to flanking end bays with rendered coping. Rendered fascia to end bay to left with inscribed lettering. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1980. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980. Set back from road. Forecourt to front.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Newtownbert, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2350 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Newtownbert with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Newtownbert · Baile Nua Bheirt

Area

3,299,601 m² (329.96 ha, 815.35 acres)

Civil parish

Kilberry, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Bert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

172 people lived in 68 households in the Bert electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bert Demesne, Cloney, Kilberry, Oldcourt, Shanraheen, Sheean, Tyrrellstown, Willsgrove

Placenames

Newtownbert 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.