Newtown

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 27 m² to 83,553 m² (8.36 ha, 20.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Local Center (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education & Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N3.3Utilities (Mixed/general gas and electricity uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of a dwelling house, to include revisions to the entrance and boundaries previously granted under planning ref. 24/331, new connection to public sewer and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 26179

• 22 Aug 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house, relocate an existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24331

• 8 Nov 2023Conditional

  extension to existing surgery comprising of 4no. consultation rooms, staff room, toilet, staff entrance, corridor and ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23531

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  alterations to the existing boundary arrangement, including both the field gate to the north, the vehicular entrance to the south and central pedestrian gate. Retention permission is also sought for the enlargement of the front porch, all

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360157

• 20 Jul 2022N/a

  an extension to the existing dwelling house, relocate an existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22795

• 6 Apr 2018Conditional

  signage to front façade of shopfront, side wall, glass manifestations to windows and green cross pharmacy sign fitted to existing totem sign at the premises

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 18329

• 11 May 2017N/a

  permission to change of use to commercial/retail use with signage at existing units

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17413

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 Newtown.

Recorded monuments

• LI032-113001 Church
  Description

  Lenihan (1866, 722) recorded that 'North-east of the town [Bruff] are some traces of Templeen or Templebodeen, said to have been built by the Templars in 1285'. No surface remains visible of any church site inside Teampuillin Grave Yard (LI032-113002-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 April 2019

• LI032-113002 Graveyard
  Description

  Lenihan (1866, 722) recorded that 'North-east of the town [Bruff] are some traces of Templeen or Templebodeen, said to have been built by the Templars in 1285'. No surface remains visible of any church site (LI032-113001-) inside Teampuillin Grave Yard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 April 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bruff Courthouse, court house, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey courthouse, built c. 1925, having Doric style portico to front (south) elevation and recent extensions to rear (north) elevation. Also in use as a library. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered parapet. Roughcast rendered walls having limestone plaque to front elevation. Square-headed openings with render entablatures and brackets, concrete sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings flanking portico having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with concrete sills. Portico comprising rendered Doric style columns supporting entablature with cornice. Square-headed opening with timber panelled double-leaf doors. Flight of concrete steps to entrance.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newtown.

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 Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

605,320 m² (60.53 ha, 149.58 acres)

Civil parish

Bruff, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Bruff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bruff electoral division: 1,460 people in 542 households; 73% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycampion, Ballyreesode, Bruff, Tullabracky

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.