Newtown

250 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 24 m² to 364,103 m² (36.41 ha, 89.97 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Newtown 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.

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560331

• 23 Dec 2024Refused

  the demolition of the existing agricultural barn and construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, percolation area and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461314

• 21 Mar 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the side of existing dwelling house together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460243

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  the change of design & relocation on site of the domestic garage previously granted under planning application reference 19/973 and permission for the construction of a steel frame shed for the storage of plant & machinery and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460055

• 20 Jan 2024Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460038

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360761

• 29 Mar 2023Conditional

  the demolition of existing outbuilding, construction of a new extension to side of existing dwelling house, installation of a new upgraded domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360184

• 24 Feb 2023Conditional

  the extension and renovation of the dwelling house (to include elevational changes), installation of a waste water treatment plant and percolation area to replace the existing septic tank on site, demolition of an outbuilding and construction of a domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360100

• 8 Dec 2022Conditional

  the change of use from playschool extension to residential extension(kitchen/dining) and for permission to carry out renovations comprising of revised elevations and associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221317

• 1 Apr 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new bungalow dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, driveway, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22363

• 29 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house to be served by proprietary wastewater treatment system & polishing filter, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22349

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, bored well, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works (outline permission ref. no.21/92)

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211128

• 2 Feb 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, bored well, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2192

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20909

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  construction of a calf house, manure pit and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20511

• 12 Mar 2020Conditional

  installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter, revised site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20216

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  construction of a two-storey dwelling house, entrance, proprietary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191274

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19973

• 30 Jul 2019N/a

  construction of a dwelling house, entrance, proprietary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19750

• 12 Jul 2018Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works above and below ground

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18709

• 15 Feb 2018Conditional

  the demolition of existing two storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, construction of a new two storey extension to the rear of house to include alterations to elevations, site boundaries and installation of a new domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter & all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18127

• 9 Oct 2017Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, proprietary treatment system and polishing filter, and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17928

• 3 Aug 2017Conditional

  the construction of single storey extension and modifications to existing house. New entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17738

• 21 Jul 2017Conditional

  single storey dwelling house, upgrading of existing road entrance, on site wastewater treatment system & percolation are to EPA guidelines 2009 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17699

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435

Recorded monuments

• LI004-014001 Church
  Description

  Situated on grassland 380m S of the River Shannon. St. Margaret’s Church was described in 1840 as following; ‘The walls are perfect with the exception of the upper part of the west gable. It is 56½ feet [17.15m] long by 22 ½ ft. [6.85m] in breadth. There is a window on the E gable 9 ft. high [2.75m] by 4½ ft. [1.35m] inside having a round arch of cut limestone. On the outside it consists of two parts, in the pointed style; here it is 8 ft. [2.43m] from the ground 5 ft. 8 in. [1.72m] high by 1 ft. 7in. [0.5m], each division being 7 inches [0.17m] in width. On this side also it is formed of cut limestone. On the S side wall, at the distance of 6 ft. [1.8m] from the east end there was a window the form of which is now destroyed. The doorway, which is on this wall, is 13 ft. 10 in. [4.21m] from the west gable; its form has been destroyed by the ravages of time. On the north wall there was another door-way which is also now disfigured. On this N wall at the distance of 8½ [2.5m] feet from the east gable there was a window, which has also lost its form. The walls are about 12 ft. [3.65m] high, 3½ ft. [1.1m] in thickness, and built of regular sized stones, not quarried irregularly laid, with sand and lime mortar. Still-born children only are interred here at present‘ (OSL Vol. 2, 135-6). Begley (1906, 254) recorded the following about this church; 'The chapel of St. Margaret, Newtown, near Carrigogunnell. This church belonged to the Hospitallers of Ainey. In a grant made of this preceptory to Thomas Browne in 1605, it is given as "Newtown near Adare." The townland is often mentioned in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the Pipe Rolls. The ruin is near the Shannon, and measures fifty-six and one-half feet long by twenty-two and a-half wide. It is in a fair state of preservation, but appears to have been never used as a burial-ground'. Westropp (1904-5, 369) recorded the following details about Newtown parish; 'Neweton in Esclon," or 'de Esclon," 1283, held by Simon Waleys and W. Lucas (Pipe Roll,xi Ed. I., Ho. 14) in 1315 (Plea Rolls); "St. Margaret's Church, of Newtown, near Carrigogunnell," 1410; bailenua, 1502 (A.F.M.)' Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 October 2018

• LI004-014002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on low rise of ground overlooking River Shannon 320m to S. A low scarp or rise of ground defining the boundary of this graveyard is all that is now visible. No memorials or low stones marking graves are visible in the vicinity of St. Margaret's Church (LI004-014001-). According to landowner the graveyard was used as a children's burial ground. The extent of the graveyard is depicted on the OS 25 inch map as a narrow rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 20m N-S x 68m E-W) to the E, S and W of the church. It is possible that this graveyard was only ever used as a children's burial ground. The graveyard adjacent to St. Margaret’s Church was described in 1840 as following; 'Still-born children only are interred here at present‘ (OSL Vol. 2, 135-6). Begley (1906, 254) recorded the following; 'It is in a fair state of preservation, but appears to have been never used as a burial-ground'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 December 2018

• LI004-019 Burial ground
  Description

  On poorly drained grassland, burial ground described by Westropp (1904-5, 447) as following; 'A burial-place, near St. James's Well [LI004-017----)'. Burial ground visible today as a tee-covered area on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 July 2019

• LI004-032012 Road - unclassified togher
  Description

  On intertidal zone of River Shannon estuary, c. 60m to N of flood relief embankment. Enclosure (LI004-032007-) is c. 32m to WNW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Listed as ‘Carrigadirty Rock 20 and 21' by O’ Sullivan (2001, 309) who described the site as following; 'Large, tangentially cleft oak plank, oriented N—S, 3.4m long, 46—54cm wide, in peats on mid-foreshore. Edges of plank irregular, with notches and protrusions. Large, cleft oak plank, oriented E—W, 5.6m long, 76cm wide, 5.5cm thick. Set in fen peats, 2m S of the edge of the intertidal peat shelf. Tangentially cleft from a massive, knotty oak trunk. The plank was worked to a blunt oblique point at its W end, cut directly across at its E end. Side edges quite thin and 'feather-edged', owing to splitting of trunk.' See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Churchfield Dairy, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790. Hipped slate roof. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills, some with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and internal timber shutters. Elliptical-headed opening with spoked fanlight over timber battened door having flanking sidelight openings. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to north elevation. Four-bay single-storey former creamery to west. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls with carved limestone plaque. Elliptical-headed door openings having brick block-and-start surrounds. Limestone water trough to site. Pair of square-profile limestone piers to south-east with carved caps and rubble limestone boundary walls.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1800, with four-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (north) elevation. Hipped and pitched thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Rendered walls and render quoins and plinth course. Square-headed openings having concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening with replacement uPVC door. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed door openings. Rendered walls to site with square-profile rendered piers.

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1790, having adjoining two-bay single-storey outbuilding to west elevation. Hipped and pitched thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having painted concrete and stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening with half-glazed timber panelled door. Pitched corrugated-iron roof to outbuilding. Flight of painted stone steps to east elevation. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to east having double-leaf metal gates, sweeping render walls terminating in second pair of piers.

• Hill Side, house, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built in 1939, having bay windows to front (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor and bay windows having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to first floor, centre-bay with tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sill. Square-headed opening having replacement uPVC overlight and door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to east with rendered walls.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1800, with windbreak to front (south) elevation. Hipped thatched roof and rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with render plinth course. Square-headed openings having replacement timber casement windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak with timber panelled door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed opening with double-leaf corrugated-iron doors. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to west having single-leaf metal gate and rubble limestone boundary walls.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_846 (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 Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

6,777,685 m² (677.77 ha, 1,674.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Carrig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrig electoral division: 658 people in 211 households; 92% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrig East, Carrig West, Cooperhill, Tervoe

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.