Newcastle

140 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcastle, from 92 m² to 830,026 m² (83 ha, 205.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 155 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1C1 - Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Sept 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of a one and a half-storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling; modifications to the existing site entrance and the installation of a new septic tank and percolation area in lieu of the existing septic tank, including all site works associated with the proposed development

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2661112

• 28 Aug 2023Conditional

  Construction of a single storey dwelling, effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360247

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  the installation of a 24 metres monopole carrying antennas, a dish, associated equipment, together with ground based equipment cabinets and all associated site development works for wireless data and broadband services

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211840

• 29 Mar 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of (1) the extension and renovation of existing single storey dwelling to become a dormer dwelling, incl. dormer windows to front and rear elevations and new living areas to the East of the dwelling, (2) the construction of a new single storey detached garage to the rear to replace the existing poorly constructed shed, new Garage to be ancillary to the use of the dwelling, (3) replacement of the existing poor performing septic tank with a new foul waste water treatment plant and percolation area, (4) reconfiguration of the front boundary to improve the safety sightline upon entry and exit to the dwelling incl. the construction of a new entrance and boundary wall, together with all associated landscaping, site works and services. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 21591

• 19 Nov 2020Conditional

  the development consists of retention of alterations to original extended dwelling granted under planning ref. no TA/50363. Alterations include: 1. Alterations to elevations including additional dormer window and windows, exclusion of windows and rooflights, addition of solar panels to rear roof pitch 2. Minor alterations to existing floor layout, 3. Addition of single storey extension to rear of dwelling 4. Addition of external screen wall to pump house 5. Construction of outbuilding containing garage and fuel stores and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201752

• 11 Sept 2020N/a

  the development will consist of: 36no. 2 storey houses consisting of 28no. 3 bed semi-detached houses and 8no. 4 bed detached houses with associated car parking (72 spaces) and private gardens; 36no. Duplex apartment units in 3no. 3 storey blocks of 12 units each and arranged as two storey duplex apartments over ground floor apartments over ground floor apartments with associated car parking (59 spaces), private balconies/terraces and communal amenity spaces; 3-storey mixed use building totaling 2028sqm comprising a café with shared work area (163sqm), medical centre (131sqm), creche (242sqm) and 16no. Apartments (6no. 1 bedroom and 10no. 2 bedroom apartments). 20no. Surface car parking spaces are provided for the apartments and 25no. Surface car parking spaces re provided for the commercial uses. Permission is also sought all associated site and development works works including vehicular access from the northern arm of the existing roundabout on the R148 Dublin Road and all internal roads, footpaths and cycle facilities, a foul water new pumping station, ESB Substation (25.5sqm), public open area with play facilities, hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatments. Provision is made for future development on the remainder of the site (subject to future planning permission) and the current application is presented in the context of a masterplan for the overall LU-OBJ2 lands

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201263

• 6 Feb 2020Conditional

  (a) use of existing stockpiles for site restoration (b) importation of inert excavation spoil comprising natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone for the purposes of restoration of a previously extracted area (QY/54) to restore the site to a beneficial agricultural and ecological afteruse (5.85 hectares) (c) Temporary Portacabin Offices and Staff Facilities 100sqm. (d) Wheel Wash and weighbridge 134m2 (e) Site entrance and access road (f) Lockable access gate at the pit entrance (g) All other ancillary buildings, plant and facilities for the restoration, and all ancillary site works. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (Environmental Impact Assessment Report) and associated documents. The application relates to a restoration development for the purpose of an activity requiring a Waste Permit to be issued by the Meath County Council. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA200121

• 5 Feb 2020N/a

  (a) use of existing stockpiles for site restoration (b) importation of inert excavation spoil comprising natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone for the purposes of restoration of a previously extracted area (QY/54) to restore the site to a beneficial agricultural and ecological afteruse (5.85 hectares) (c) Temporary Portacabin Offices and Staff Facilities 100sqm. (d) Wheel Wash and weighbridge 134m2 (e) Site entrance and access road (f) Lockable access gate at the pit entrance (g) All other ancillary buildings, plant and facilities for the restoration, and all ancillary site works. the application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (Environmental Impact Assessment Report) and associated documents. The application relates to a restoration development for the purpose of an activity requiring a Waste Permit to be issued by the Meath County Council.

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA200113

• 30 Aug 2019Conditional

  the construction of a new detached residential dwelling with domestic garage, roof mounted solar heating panels, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance from road to enter the site including any necessary pruning of existing hedgerows, landscaping and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA191126

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  a single storey dwelling, effluent treatment system and associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA180832

• 20 Nov 2017Conditional

  mixed use development. The demolition of existing derelict structures, 44sqm footprint, and removal of agri sheds in the north east of the site. Development ranging in heights from one storey over ground level to seven storey over ground-floor level, comprises 36 no. townhouses (34 no. 3 bed, and 2 no. 5 bed ). 99 no. apartments (44 no 1 bed, and 38 no 2 bed, and 16 no 3 bed, 1 no 4 bed) with podium communal space, 5 no. live- work units, all 3 bed. 65 no. bed nursing home with 3 no. pallitive care and overnight family suites and 12 no. assisted- living apartments (8 no. 2- bed and 4 no. 3-bed). Petrol filling station (898.09sqm) with retail, hot-food sales and seating space, 71 no. bedroom hotel with 13 no. long stay units.1 no. licenced bar/bistro unit 1073.93 sqm. 1 no. convienence retail unit (trading floor area of 1558.17m2) with managers office (49.68 m2) and associated ancillary areas. 2 no retail units (118.38sqm & 89 sqm). 26 no. offices (1396.56m2). 1 no fitness and wellbeing centre (526.27m2) 1 no creche unit (345.33m2). 1 no. split- level 4 storey car park (217 no. spaces) and 263 no. surface parking spaces allocated to the various elements of the proposed development. New vehicular and pedestrian entrances serving the proposed development, including all necessary junction works, sub station, all soft and hard landscaping including playground and shared surface areas; all ancillary site development and servicing works including lighting. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 152 homes · Meath County Council, TA171345

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• ME048-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m) is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’ and it is depicted as an oval hachured feature (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 20m E-W) on the 1912 edition. It was described in 1969 (SMR file) as a raised oval and grass-covered area (dims of top 50m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) that had been anciently quarried but it was defined by scarps (at SW: Wth 1m; H 0.8m), with an external fosse at SW (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 0.75m). Its visible profile had been removed by 1995 (OSAP) but it is probably a rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 August 2019

• ME048-018 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on top of a broad hill. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Sir Richard Barnwall of Crickstown (ME039-006----) owned 252 acres at Newcastle in Rathcore parish, and on the premises were ‘one Castle and some Farme houses and Cabbins’ (Simington 1940, 183). Sir Richard also owned land at Possixtowne (180 acres), Johnstowne (Jordanstown) (163 acres), Conellstowne (108 acres), and Kilcorny (100 acres) in the same parish (ibid. 181-5). This is a three-storey tower house (ext. dims 5.55m E-W; c. 6m N-S) that survives complete with an overgrown and obscured parapet and base-batter. It is vaulted over both the ground floor and the first floor and has a semicircular stairs tower projecting from the centre of the E wall. A wall, bonded with the stairs tower extended E and another wall, bonded with the SE angle extended S, creating a bawn of unknown extent which was to the SE of the tower house. A wide carriage doorway is inserted in the N wall at the ground floor, which has a light in a round-headed embrasure in the W wall, a blocked embrasure in the S wall and two blocked embrasures in the E wall, but the original entrance is not identified. There are faint traced of wicker-centring in the N-S barrel-vault. A round-headed doorway leads to the newel stairs at the centre of the E wall, but the steps immediately below the first floor were removed and the space floored in wood at some time. The first floor under a N-S barrel vault is entered by a round-headed doorway from the stairs and has a window embrasure on each wall, but that on the S might have been extended into a doorway. A round-headed doorway in the N wall leads to a garderobe chamber (int. dims 1.45m E-W; 0.6m N-S) that is plastered, suggesting that it may have been used into the eighteenth or nineteenth century as might an inserted corner fireplace at the NE angle. The stairs continue with enlarged lights in the E wall, and a lintelled doorway leads to the second floor chamber (int. dims 4.55m E-W; 4.35m N-S), which has an enlarged window on each wall, that on the S being blocked. A lintelled doorway at the SE angle leads to a chamber (int. dims 1.45m N-S; 0.5m E-W) with a machicolation projecting from the S wall and has a blocked light on the E wall. There is an inserted brick fireplace at the SW angle. The stairs continue to the wall-walk with no lights, but the parapet is overgrown with ivy, and no features can be distinguished, although brick is evident at many points. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 18 July 2016

• ME048-018001 Bawn
  Description

  Located on a broad hill. The tower house (ME048-018----) is at the NW angle of a bawn of unknown dimensions, evidenced by fragments of the bawn wall bonded to the stairs tower at the centre of the E wall of the tower house and a fragment bonded to the SE angle of the tower house and extending S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 July, 2016

• ME048-033 Furnace
  Description

  Situated on an undulating low-lying landscape. Archaeological testing in advance of the M4 Kinnegad to Kilcock motorway identified a number of hearths and burnt spreads. This was set aside for resolution as Newcastlle 2, which was fully resolved (02E1093) in August 2002. A furnace bottom was in an oval cutting (dims 0.72m x 0.52m; max. D 0.17m) in the subsoil with oxidized sides. It was filled with grey/black sandy clay that had a small amount of slag and a lot of charcoal, which produced a radiocarbon determination of Cal. AD 890-1150. There was an oval pit (dims 1.05m x 0.66m; D 0.22m) nearby with a large amount of slag. Other shallow cuts with oxidised bases are interpreted as the remains of hearths, one of which provided a C14 date of cal. AD 980-1170. The kiln (ME048-034----) is c. 80m to the W. (O’Hara 2003; 2004; 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 August 2019 Amended: 17 February 2021 O’Hara, R. 2003 Final Report on Archaeological Excavation at Newcastle 2, County Meath. Licence: 02E1093. Unpublished report, ACS O’Hara, R. 2004 Newcastle 2. Bowl furnace, corn dryer (?) and hearths. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 426-7, No. 1499. Bray, Wordwell O’Hara 2008 in Carlin, N., Clarke, L. and F. Walsh 2008 (eds) The Archaeology of Life and Death in the Boyne Floodplain, vol. 2, Newcastle 2. National Roads Authority Scheme Monographs 2, Dublin

• ME048-034 Kiln
  Description

  Situated on an undulating low-lying landscape. Archaeological testing in advance of the M4 Kinnegad to Kilcock motorway identified a sub-surface archaeological feature. This was set aside for resolution as a part of Newcastlle 2, which was fully resolved (02E1093) in August 2002. This is a subrectangular cut (dims 3.7m E-W; 1.6m N-S; max. D 0.26m) in the subsoil filled with a partially oxidized base and a yellow/brown silty clay that was largely redeposited natural with some oxidization. There were four unburnt stake holes in the central area and a dense deposit of charcoal at the E end. This was separated by a mixed layer of brown clay and charcoal from another dense charcoal deposit which is interpreted as the roof of the fire-pit of a kiln. It produced a C14 date of Cal. AD 1050-1270. A nearly hearth produced a C14 date of Cal. AD 980-1170. The furnace bottom (ME048-033----) is c. 80m to the E. (O’Hara 2003; 2004; 2008) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 August 2019 O’Hara, R. 2003 Final Report on Archaeological Excavation at Newcastle 2, County Meath. Licence: 02E1093. Unpublished report, ACS O’Hara, R. 2004 Newcastle 2. Bowl furnace, corn dryer (?) and hearths. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 426-7, No. 1499. Bray, Wordwell O’Hara 2008 in Carlin, N., Clarke, L. and F. Walsh 2008 (eds) The Archaeology of Life and Death in the Boyne Floodplain, vol. 2, Newcastle 2. National Roads Authority Scheme Monographs 2, Dublin

• ME048-047 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 12m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (ME048-047_1 to _2). It is also visible on Google Earth (28/06/2018), and ring-ditch (ME048-057----) is c. 40m to the S. See the attached views from Conor Murphy _1; _2 from Google Earth (2018) top; Compiled by: Michael Moore based on details provided by Noel and Conor Murphy Date of upload: 7 August, 2018 Amended: 11 November 2022

• ME048-057 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The faint cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on Google Earth (28/06/2018). Ring-ditch (ME048-047----) is c. 40m to the N. This ring-ditch was first reported by Edmund O’Riordan. See the attached view from Google Earth (2018) at bottom Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 11 November 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2531 (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.

• Newcastle, Enfield6 sales

Name

Newcastle

Area

5,506,113 m² (550.61 ha, 1,360.59 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcore, and its townlands

Barony

Moyfenrath Lower

Electoral division

Innfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Innfield electoral division: 4,858 people in 1,513 households; 79% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Connellstown, Johnstown (Co. Kildare), Johnstown, Kilcorney, Kilmore (Co. Kildare), Kilmorebrannagh (Co. Kildare), Kilmurry, Martinstown (Co. Kildare), Posseckstown

Placenames

Newcastle 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.