Newtownpark

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownpark, from 1,084 m² to 442,744 m² (44.27 ha, 109.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Blessington Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Blessington Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Blessington Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 2 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
• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Blessington, Kildare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Blessington, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Sept 2024Refused

  for A) vernacular style part 2 storey and part single storey dwelling with single storey family apartment with garage and assorted outbuildings. B) Install propriety wastewater treatment system and percolation area. C) Create new entrance off lane. D) Erect 31.5M x 10.0M x 6.0M High agricultural building clad in juniper green box profile sheeting for animal care, machinery and feed store

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 24275

• 8 Aug 2024N/a

  for a) erect vernacular style part 2 storey and part single storey dwelling with single storey family apartment with garage and assorted outbuildings. b) install proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area. c) create new entrance off lane. d) erect 31.5M x 10.0M x 6.0M High agricultural building clad in juniper green box profile sheeting for animal care, machinery and feed store

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 24253

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  a separate domestic type garage as constructed to the left hand side of my house when viewed from the public road. Permission is sought to set back my existing front boundary 3 metres from the roadside in order to improve the sightlines when exiting the property. These works are on my site

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 221065

• 10 Sept 2021Refused

  for a domestic garage constructed to the side of my existing dwelling

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211295

• 3 Sept 2021N/a

  for a domestic garage constructed to the side of my existing dwelling

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 211258

• 23 Feb 2021Conditional

  demolition of a garage and the construction of 3 dwellings adjacent to existing house, new driveway, connection to public services and all associated site works. Permission was previously granted for 2 no. detached dwellings on a portion of the subject site under Planning Reg. Ref. 19/506

  Permission, 3 homes · Wicklow County Council, 21171

• 31 Aug 2020Conditional

  A) Erect vernacular style part 2 storey and part single storey dwelling with single storey family apartment with garage and assorted outbuildings. B) Install proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area. C) Create new entrance off lane. D) Erect 31.5M x 10.0M X 6.0M High agricultural building clad in juniper green box profile sheeting for animal care, machinery and feed store

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20989

• 11 Aug 2020N/a

  A) Erect vernacular style part 2 storey and part single storey dwelling with single storey family apartment with garage and assorted outbuildings. B) Install Proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area. C) Create new entrance off lane D) Erect 31.5M x 10.0M x 6.0M High agricultural building clad in juniper green box profile sheeting for animal care, machinery and feed store

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20888

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  2 no 1.5 storey, 5 bedroom dwellings to the west of the existing house and all associated and ancillary site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 19506

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 Newtownpark.

Recorded monuments

• KD025-008 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Prominently located (OD c. 296m) at the NE end of a narrow-topped, moderately steep-sided NE-SW ridge, overlooking Glen Ding valley to the NE and with panoramic views in all directions except SW. A sub-circular area (diam. 14.4m E-W; 13.4m N-S) is defined by a shallow fosse (D 0.2-0.4m: base Wth 0.8m at N – 3.5m at E) and by a low, heavily poached outer earthen bank (int. H 0.2-0.6m; Wth 2.5m at S – 4.1m at W; ext. H 0.3-0.5m) which has a spine of dense stony material, and possible small inner revetting stones at S (ext. diam. 29m E-W; 27.5m N-S). An entrance gap (Wth 3.3m) at ESE is flanked on its S side by a single revetting stone on the inner face of the bank. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 July 2012

• KD025-014 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in grassland with ring-barrow 155m to W. Circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 20m) bisected by post-1700 field boundary visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Brian Doyle Date of upload: 19 February 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtownpark.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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.

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

Name

Newtownpark

Area

1,095,243 m² (109.52 ha, 270.64 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

Athgarrett, Blessington Demesne (Co. Wicklow), Deerpark (Co. Wicklow), Glenmore, Kilmalum, Newtown Great, Newtown Little

Placenames

Newtownpark 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.