Newtown or Cloneen
Townland in the civil parish of Killyon, barony of Moyfenrath Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 138.6 ha
- 343 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 3,585 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown or Cloneen, from 11 m² to 182,198 m² (18.22 ha, 45.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 64 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jun 2026N/a
construct a new single-storey community building, new effluent treatment system & polishing filter area and associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660815
27 May 2026N/a
1). Partial demolition of existing dwelling to improve vehicular entrance sightlines, and to facilitate the construction of one and a half storey extension, including an increased ridge height and dormer windows to east and west elevations. 2). Alterations to the vehicular entrance, including new entrance gates, walls, piers. 3). Installation of a wastewater treatment system, surface water SuDs measures, household well and associated site works 4). Partial demolition of shed to south to provide improve vehicular entrance sightlines, and construction of extension to shed to east. All works at
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660629
26 Jul 2023Conditional
single storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, new domestic entrance, driveway, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23748
8 May 2023Conditional
a single storey extension to the north eastern side of existing dwelling, and all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23489
20 Jan 2021Conditional
development consists of retention of (1) elevational amendments to previously permitted single storey rear extension (permission ref: 73/218), (2) single storey conservatory extension to side, with secondary entrance porch extension to rear, (C) modified pitched roof structure and chimney to rear with gable end window to non-habitable attic space, all to existing single storey dwelling, including all associate site works
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2180
19 Sept 2018Conditional
single storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, new domestic entrance, driveway, proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, together with all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA181086
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103
Recorded monuments
- ME041-028 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gently undulating landscape. A subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) defined by a wide earthen bank (Wth c. 5m) is most clearly visible on Google Earth (24/03/2017; 20/03/2018; 17/01/2020). It is also visible on Aerial Premium (2013-18), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (17/02/2020) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 11 October 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtown or Cloneen.
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 Newtown or Cloneen.
- 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 Newtown or Cloneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown or Cloneen
- Area
- 1,386,466 m² (138.65 ha, 342.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killyon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Upper
- Electoral division
- Killyon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killyon electoral division: 595 people in 197 households; 90% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina, Boraheen, Clondalee Beg, Drummond, Molerick
- Placenames
- Newtown or Cloneen 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.