Newtown

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 134 m² to 850,322 m² (85.03 ha, 210.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Newtown 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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  a dwelling house, domestic garage/garden shed/home office, new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560512

• 12 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS INCLUDING A PROPOSED BORED WELL AND SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18114

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

• OF039-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the E facing slope of high ground in upland area. Roughly circular raised area (diam 21m; ext. H 0.5m - 1m) enclosed by a wide flat bottomed fosse (Wth 5.5m; ext. H 1m) with external bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 1m). No entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-024001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Situated on low-lying land in upland area. Two storey fortified house (ext. dims. 11.2m N-S; 8.1m E-W; wall T 1m) built of roughly coursed rubble masonry. The N, S and E walls survive with the W wall totally destroyed. Two fireplaces survive one at either gable end at both levels with plain rectangular chimney stacks. The first floor was carried on wooden beams supported in the thickness of the walls. There are four rectangular opes on the E wall, two at ground floor and two at first floor level. There is a possible doorway at N end of W wall. Evidence of wall-walk at first floor level survives. Bawn wall (dims. 25.5m E-W; 23m N-S; wall T 0.6m) encloses this building on the N, S and E with corner turret at the SW and NE angles. There was a possible bridge at S end of W wall which crossed over possible moat. Both turrets (ext. diam. 4.2m) are two storeys high with several gun loops visible and were accessed from inside the bawn. Probably a 17th-century fortified house. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-024002 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Unable to locate possible sheela-na-gig which was described by Feehan as a doubtful sheela-na-gig (1979, 163-66). Photograph of this carving in 'The Landscape of the Slieve Bloom' shows it as a re-used quoin stone inserted into a 17th-century building (OF039-024001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated just off the top of a natural low hillock on the E facing slope in upland area. Raised circular area (26m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (ext. H 2m - 3.5m) reduced in places to a scarp and external fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.5m) evident at W only with causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at NE. E side of site is raised to compensate for hill slope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-041 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as an irregular shaped enclosure on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-042 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as an oval shaped enclosure with laneway running across site on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-043 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as circular enclosure on 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Aghagurty Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry road bridge, built c.1800, carrying road over a tributrary of the River Camcor in the foothills of the Slieve Bloom mountains. Dressed sandstone blocks to abutments with quoins of dressed sandstone. Segmental profile arch. Voussoirs of dressed sandstone. Dressed sandstone string course. Parapets of random rubble and coped with vertically set stones.

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

At the centre of the townland of Newtown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Newtown.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

4,884,235 m² (488.42 ha, 1,206.92 acres)

Civil parish

Roscomroe, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Roscomroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

159 people lived in 50 households in the Roscomroe electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagurty, Ballymacmurragh, Ballywilliam, Clashroe, Knockarley, Longford, Pollduff, Roscomroe

Placenames

Newtown 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.