Newtownbond

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownbond, from 392 m² to 253,708 m² (25.37 ha, 62.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Newtownbond 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.

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  proposed construction of a single-storey extension to the rear of an existing bungalow-type dwelling house, demolish the attached garage and also replace the existing septic tank system with a new onsite sewerage treatment system with polishing filter in accordance with the EPA Code of Practice 2021 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560225

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  proposed construction of a single storey bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460113

• 27 Nov 2020Conditional

  construction of a dry agricultural storage shed and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20286

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 Newtownbond.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-043 Castle - motte
  Description

  At the N end of a N-S ridge in wet marshy terrain with good views in all directions. In 1295 the castle of ‘Newtown’ was ‘razed by Sefraid O Fergail [O'Ferrall]' (Ann. Conn., 195). This roughly oval, flat-topped platform (c. 47m NNW-SSE; c. 16m ENE-WSW) may mark its location. It is defined by a scarp (H 2 4.5m) with a wide fosse (Wth 4m; D 1m) to the S which peters out to the E and W. No trace of the fosse is visible from W-N-E. No entrance feature is evident. On the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map it is depicted as a large grove of trees. On the 1911 edition it is shown as a roughly subrectangular raised area with several trees on top of it, leading to some doubt about its antiquity. It may be a landscape feature associated with Newtownbond House, c. 650m to the SE. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 March 2012

• LF014-043001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Associated with a possible motte (LF014-043----). An early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47) depicts a castle on the summit of a motte. An Inquisition taken in 1604 recorded that Lyshagh Duffe O’Ferrall was found guilty of treason and seised of the ‘castr de Newton’ (Anon. 1826, Inq. 2 Jac 1). It was granted to Mary, Lady Delvin and her son Sir Richard Nugent, Baron of Delvin in 1605 (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 74). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 November 2012

• LF014-052001 Church
  Description

  On a NNW-facing slope in pasture, within the SW half of a graveyard (LF014-052002-), c. 170m to the ENE of Newtownbond House (LF014-131----). In the medieval period this church may have been known as Kilmoyle Church; Newtownbond townland was formerly part of Kilmoyle townland (Morgan 2000, 13-14). An early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47) depicts it standing close to a motte with a castle on its summit (see LF014-043---- and LF014-043001-). This much-ruined small undivided rectangular church (ext. dims. 9.3m E-W; 6.25m N-S; wall T 0.8m) is constructed of randomly coursed rough masonry. Scarcely more than the foundation levels of the S, W and N walls survive. The lower portion of an apparently single-light window is evident in the E wall. The original doorway is not recognisable. Within the interior there is a 17th-century graveslab (LF014-052003-). The exact date of the church is unknown but it is possible that it functioned as a mortuary chapel associated with Newtownbond House in the 17th century. (ITA Survey 1944) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF014-052002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a church (LF014-052001-) that stands in its SW half. This irregularly shaped graveyard (90m NE-SW; 42m NW-SE) is enclosed by a series of concrete posts with intervening mesh-wire fencing. Access is via a wrought-iron gate and an adjacent stile at SW. The graveyard is overgrown with scrub rendering inspection difficult. The oldest identified memorial (LF014-052003-), dated 1642, is inside the church. The graveyard was closed in 1955 (ITA Survey 1944; Lennon 2005). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF014-052003 Graveslab
  Description

  Within the interior of a church (LF014-052001-), near the S wall. This recumbent rectangular graveslab (L 1.76m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.08m) is decorated in false relief with a Latin cross, with 'IHS' carved at the head and the date 1642 at the foot. It is locally believed to be the 'tomb of either Faghny's [Farrell’s] father or a local priest' (Devaney 1981, 4, 8). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

Architectural heritage

• Newtownbond House, gates/railings/walls, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway originally serving the north entrance to Newtownbond House, erected c. 1790. Comprising a central pair of ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan) having projecting dressed limestone plinths and carved stepped capstones over, and with moulded entablatures to heads having floral motifs set within roundels to frieze. Double-leaf wrought-iron gates with spear finials. Gateway flanked to either side (east and west) by sections of sections of rubble stone walling having cut stone plinth courses and cut stone coping over, an terminated to either side by ashlar limestone gateway piers of the same design as central piers. Integral square-headed pedestrian entrances to side walls having dressed limestone surrounds, entrances now blocked with rubble stone. Rubble stone boundary walls with tapered profile to either side of outer gate piers. Set back from road to the south of Ballinalee, and to the north of Newtownbond House (demolished).

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 low, 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 Newtownbond.

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 Newtownbond with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Newtownbond · An Baile Nua

Area

1,557,923 m² (155.79 ha, 384.97 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Moatfarrell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moatfarrell electoral division: 210 people in 70 households; 94% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhoolivan, Corboy, Glannagh, Kilmoyle, Lisnanagh

Placenames

Newtownbond 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.