# Newtownwhite, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballysakeery, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile Nua an Fhaoitigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,348,594 m² (134.86 ha, 333.24 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,730 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballysakeery, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/ballysakeery.md
- Barony: Tirawley
- Electoral division: Ballysakeery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 620 people lived in 222 households in the Ballysakeery electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34257
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152623
- Centre: latitude 54.188768, longitude -9.178162 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownwhite, from 158 m² to 204,255 m² (20.43 ha, 50.47 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 891415: 204,255 m² (20.43 ha, 50.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/891415.md
- Parcel 4783414: 158,887 m² (15.89 ha, 39.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4783414.md
- Parcel 873335: 126,850 m² (12.68 ha, 31.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873335.md
- Parcel 904075: 99,079 m² (9.91 ha, 24.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904075.md
- Parcel 886561: 78,525 m² (7.85 ha, 19.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886561.md
- Parcel 4783507: 78,325 m² (7.83 ha, 19.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4783507.md
- Parcel 893608: 73,502 m² (7.35 ha, 18.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893608.md
- Parcel 903457: 66,074 m² (6.61 ha, 16.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903457.md
- Parcel 1012091: 63,549 m² (6.35 ha, 15.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012091.md
- Parcel 986303: 63,360 m² (6.34 ha, 15.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986303.md
- Parcel 977259: 57,527 m² (5.75 ha, 14.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977259.md
- Parcel 933138: 53,758 m² (5.38 ha, 13.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933138.md
- Parcel 943620: 52,884 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943620.md
- Parcel 942775: 44,376 m² (4.44 ha, 10.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/942775.md
- Parcel 5205549: 25,433 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5205549.md
- Parcel 949109: 8,612 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/949109.md
- Parcel 911381: 5,780 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911381.md
- Parcel 2707308: 4,478 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2707308.md
- Parcel 922866: 4,299 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/922866.md
- Parcel 924411: 4,064 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924411.md
- Parcel 4988719: 3,730 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4988719.md
- Parcel 5256506: 3,697 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5256506.md
- Parcel 871470: 3,544 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/871470.md
- Parcel 4783489: 3,493 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4783489.md
- Parcel 921785: 3,364 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921785.md
- Parcel 973662: 2,719 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/973662.md
- Parcel 4772028: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4772028.md
- Parcel 2707303: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2707303.md
- Parcel 4771985: 2,524 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4771985.md
- Parcel 3773851: 2,453 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3773851.md
- Parcel 894718: 2,157 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894718.md
- Parcel 1011258: 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011258.md
- Parcel 996838: 1,997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/996838.md
- Parcel 876696: 1,980 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/876696.md
- Parcel 918550: 1,861 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/918550.md
- Parcel 1009703: 1,546 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1009703.md
- Parcel 882407: 1,271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/882407.md
- Parcel 965281: 665 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/965281.md
- Parcel 2889412: 435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2889412.md
- Parcel 2889433: 375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2889433.md
- Parcel 2889432: 158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2889432.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Newtownwhite in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 30 Apr 2025, Mayo County Council 25165: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. retain existing mobile home on site and construct new dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area including all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25165/0
- 20 Jun 2023, Mayo County Council 2360225: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 1. Demolish existing dwelling house 2. Construct new Dwelling House 3. All ancillary services associated with the development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360225/0
- 15 Apr 2020, Mayo County Council 20261: Conditional. Retention. RETENTION OF EXISTING GROUNDWORK AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE. RETENTION OF EXISTING GRANNY FLAT WITH NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER. INCLUDING RETENTION OF ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SERVICES.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20261/0
- 13 Dec 2019, Mayo County Council 19967: Conditional. Permission. RETENTION FOR THE ERECTION OF A PREFABRICATED STRUCTURE (84SQM) FOR USE AS A TEMPORARY CLASSROOM, FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION (278SQM) CONSISTING OF 2 NO. CLASSROOMS AND 1 NO. MULTI PURPOSE RESOURCE ROOM, ALTERATIONS OF INTERNAL LAYOUT OF EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING AND THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/19967/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newtownwhite.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA022-067: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA022-067----. In gently undulating average pasture, close to the SE boundary of the townland, located on a slight rise. There is a slight rise in ground level c. 40m to N, from which point the ground then falls abruptly in a steep natural slope towards a stream, which is 150m distant. This rath is named ‘Sandland Fort’ on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch map. It consists of a raised circular area (25.5m N–S; 27.6m E–W) defined at NE–S by a degraded earthen bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m, at SE), reduced elsewhere to a scarp (Wth ext. slope c. 3m; ext. H 1.5m, at NW). The bank has a low internal rim, but is quite well defined on its external slope, with the external face of the scarp at W–NW being particularly pronounced. The entrance may be at E, where there is a low area/gap (Wth 2.5m) in the bank. A low scarp (H 0.4m) separates the NW quadrant on its E and S sides from the rest of the interior, which is at a slightly lower level. There is a possible souterrain (MA022-067001-), evident as a shallow grassed over linear depression in the W half of the interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 May 2019
- MA022-067001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA022-067001-. Located in the W half of a rath (MA022-067----). A shallow linear depression (Wth 1.4-2m; D 0.4m) is evident close to the bank on the W side of the rath interior. It extends to NNW for 5m, then turns to NE, continuing through the NW quadrant for c. 8m. It is possible that this represents a collapsed souterrain. It is grassed-over, with no structural features evident. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 May 2019

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Bridge, 1890–1895, Regional interest, registry number 31302213, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31302213. Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1893; extant 1896. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered piers with chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having chamfered coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Newtownwhite, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newtownwhite.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/newtownwhite.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/newtownwhite.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/newtownwhite.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Newtownwhite with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballysakeery: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballysakeery.md
- Carrowreagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowreagh-150761.md
- Crosspatrick: https://everytownland.com/mayo/crosspatrick.md
- Knockalough: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockalough.md
- Moyne: https://everytownland.com/mayo/moyne-152565.md
- Rathglass East: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rathglass-east.md
- Rosserk: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rosserk.md
- Rusheens: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rusheens-152852.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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