Newhouse

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newhouse, from 301 m² to 93,076 m² (9.31 ha, 23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Newhouse 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.

• 2 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permission Consequent on the Grant of Outline Permission- 2660090 - for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works. Permission sought for detached domestic garage and on site soakaway

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660345

• 24 Feb 2026Conditional

  Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660090

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the following: 1. Construction of a new single storey extension to rear of existing primary school building (to provide an SEN Base with a Central Activities Space, 2no. classrooms, a Multi Activity Room, a Daily Living Skills Room and ancillary rooms) 2. Minor alterations to existing school building 3. Provision of 6no. new car parking spaces along with works to existing vehicular gates 4. Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to be installed 5. All associated site works *Significant Further Information Received on 12/02/2026*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560400

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  retention permission for existing detached domestic garage and WC compartment, incorporating access to existing storage area

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22195

• 11 Dec 2018Refused

  Permission for development to consist of 6 no. dwelling houses complete with proprietary wastewater treatment systems. The development includes for two house type options, Type A being a 2 storey house, and Type B being a 1 and a half storey house. The development also includes for all site development works and upgrade works to adjacent public road to the north of the site.

  Permission, 6 homes · Louth County Council, 181008

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 Newhouse.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newhouse.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3141 (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 Newhouse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Newhouse · An Niús

Area

933,666 m² (93.37 ha, 230.71 acres)

Civil parish

Termonfeckin, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Termonfeckin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Termonfeckin electoral division: 4,003 people in 1,280 households; 83% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaglane, Carstown, Carstown, Milltown, Tullyard

Placenames

Newhouse 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.