Newtownfane
Townland in the civil parish of Louth, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Nua Áth Féan
- Area
- 53.3 ha
- 132 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 1,559 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownfane, from 1 m² to 157,410 m² (15.74 ha, 38.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Newtownfane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey extension to side and rear of existing dormer style dwelling house and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23467
10 Aug 2023N/a
Permission to construct a single storey extension to side and rear of existing dormer style dwelling house and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23358
26 Jun 2023Refused
Outline Planning Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works at Cavan/Rathroal, Knockbridge, Co Louth.
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360179
3 Oct 2017Conditional
Retention permission to retain the front façade and window of the existing dwelling following incorporation of the 3.84m2 first floor Veranda into the internal first floor landing space.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17739
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newtownfane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtownfane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtownfane.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Newtownfane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newtownfane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Newtownfane · Baile Nua Áth Féan
- Area
- 532,790 m² (53.28 ha, 131.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Louth, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Haggardstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Haggardstown electoral division: 9,301 people in 3,293 households; 77% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Allardstown, Cavan, Dunmahon, Rathroal, Rossmakay, Stephenstown, Walterstown
- Placenames
- Newtownfane 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.