# Newtown, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Roscomroe, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Baile Nua.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,884,235 m² (488.42 ha, 1,206.92 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,960 m² (2.4 ha, 5.92 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Roscomroe, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/roscomroe.md
- Barony: Ballybritt
- Electoral division: Roscomroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41886
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180986
- Centre: latitude 53.044889, longitude -7.745774 (WGS 84)

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

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 134 m² to 850,322 m² (85.03 ha, 210.12 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 292540: 850,322 m² (85.03 ha, 210.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292540.md
- Parcel 278340: 513,506 m² (51.35 ha, 126.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278340.md
- Parcel 5057694: 289,646 m² (28.96 ha, 71.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5057694.md
- Parcel 272715: 265,012 m² (26.5 ha, 65.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272715.md
- Parcel 270419: 241,539 m² (24.15 ha, 59.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270419.md
- Parcel 278338: 224,997 m² (22.5 ha, 55.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278338.md
- Parcel 278339: 177,992 m² (17.8 ha, 43.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278339.md
- Parcel 282408: 176,735 m² (17.67 ha, 43.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282408.md
- Parcel 282407: 175,142 m² (17.51 ha, 43.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282407.md
- Parcel 286044: 174,490 m² (17.45 ha, 43.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286044.md
- Parcel 292543: 169,345 m² (16.93 ha, 41.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292543.md
- Parcel 303672: 107,381 m² (10.74 ha, 26.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303672.md
- Parcel 304976: 102,113 m² (10.21 ha, 25.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304976.md
- Parcel 306792: 99,826 m² (9.98 ha, 24.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306792.md
- Parcel 295950: 97,091 m² (9.71 ha, 23.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295950.md
- Parcel 277752: 94,837 m² (9.48 ha, 23.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277752.md
- Parcel 302982: 94,292 m² (9.43 ha, 23.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302982.md
- Parcel 276548: 89,005 m² (8.9 ha, 21.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276548.md
- Parcel 285697: 84,900 m² (8.49 ha, 20.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/285697.md
- Parcel 287804: 82,991 m² (8.3 ha, 20.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287804.md
- Parcel 305496: 63,999 m² (6.4 ha, 15.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305496.md
- Parcel 282274: 62,691 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282274.md
- Parcel 278508: 60,664 m² (6.07 ha, 14.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278508.md
- Parcel 311699: 47,660 m² (4.77 ha, 11.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311699.md
- Parcel 284305: 44,813 m² (4.48 ha, 11.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284305.md
- Parcel 306129: 44,127 m² (4.41 ha, 10.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306129.md
- Parcel 303126: 43,281 m² (4.33 ha, 10.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303126.md
- Parcel 307549: 42,720 m² (4.27 ha, 10.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307549.md
- Parcel 307231: 42,240 m² (4.22 ha, 10.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307231.md
- Parcel 295206: 42,100 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295206.md
- Parcel 306793: 39,995 m² (4 ha, 9.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306793.md
- Parcel 298425: 38,514 m² (3.85 ha, 9.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298425.md
- Parcel 274982: 36,396 m² (3.64 ha, 8.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274982.md
- Parcel 313882: 35,879 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313882.md
- Parcel 299626: 31,762 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299626.md
- Parcel 360451: 24,418 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360451.md
- Parcel 289584: 23,502 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289584.md
- Parcel 289384: 22,744 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289384.md
- Parcel 289769: 18,781 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289769.md
- Parcel 298072: 14,584 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298072.md
- Parcel 278334: 8,732 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278334.md
- Parcel 277798: 7,253 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277798.md
- Parcel 292545: 5,921 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292545.md
- Parcel 272292: 4,794 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272292.md
- Parcel 271038: 4,176 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271038.md
- Parcel 4638668: 4,010 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638668.md
- Parcel 2478219: 3,682 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478219.md
- Parcel 269843: 3,672 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269843.md
- Parcel 4846040: 3,659 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4846040.md
- Parcel 286847: 3,043 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286847.md
- Parcel 287767: 2,946 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287767.md
- Parcel 292544: 2,935 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292544.md
- Parcel 278367: 2,932 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278367.md
- Parcel 2475778: 2,852 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475778.md
- Parcel 5535629: 2,760 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5535629.md
- Parcel 4688088: 2,723 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4688088.md
- Parcel 278165: 2,488 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278165.md
- Parcel 5621636: 2,387 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5621636.md
- Parcel 274186: 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274186.md
- Parcel 275909: 2,291 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275909.md
- Parcel 290716: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290716.md
- Parcel 294344: 2,175 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294344.md
- Parcel 276084: 1,963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/276084.md
- Parcel 279912: 1,887 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/279912.md
- Parcel 290458: 1,821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/290458.md
- Parcel 294960: 1,512 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/294960.md
- Parcel 4759877: 1,208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759877.md
- Parcel 5617446: 1,189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5617446.md
- Parcel 2478218: 405 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478218.md
- Parcel 278337: 357 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/278337.md
- Parcel 2388637: 160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388637.md
- Parcel 359619: 134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/359619.md

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

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.

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

2 applications, newest first.

- 23 Oct 2025, Offaly County Council 2560512: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a dwelling house, domestic garage/garden shed/home office, new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560512/0
- 12 Mar 2018, Offaly County Council 18114: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18114/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160

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

- OF039-023: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-023----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-024001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-024002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-025----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-041----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-042----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-043----. 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

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)

- Aghagurty Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 14939015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14939015. 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.

## 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 Newtown, 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 Newtown.
- 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/offaly/newtown-180986.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180986.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180986.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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

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

- Aghagurty: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghagurty.md
- Ballymacmurragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymacmurragh.md
- Ballywilliam: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballywilliam-180220.md
- Clashroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clashroe.md
- Knockarley: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockarley.md
- Longford: https://everytownland.com/offaly/longford.md
- Pollduff: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pollduff.md
- Roscomroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/roscomroe.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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