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

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

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,277,823 m² (327.78 ha, 809.97 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 32,553 m² (3.26 ha, 8.04 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 12 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Geashill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/geashill.md
- Barony: Geashill
- Electoral division: Cappancur, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,701 people lived in 573 households in the Cappancur electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41974
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180991
- Centre: latitude 53.238824, longitude -7.405218 (WGS 84)

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

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 958 m² to 493,699 m² (49.37 ha, 122 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5318261: 493,699 m² (49.37 ha, 122 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5318261.md
- Parcel 279069: 355,778 m² (35.58 ha, 87.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279069.md
- Parcel 290246: 286,687 m² (28.67 ha, 70.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290246.md
- Parcel 288895: 206,707 m² (20.67 ha, 51.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288895.md
- Parcel 359385: 204,182 m² (20.42 ha, 50.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359385.md
- Parcel 288970: 178,524 m² (17.85 ha, 44.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288970.md
- Parcel 307918: 130,822 m² (13.08 ha, 32.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307918.md
- Parcel 282542: 90,173 m² (9.02 ha, 22.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282542.md
- Parcel 283284: 85,310 m² (8.53 ha, 21.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283284.md
- Parcel 278744: 82,088 m² (8.21 ha, 20.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278744.md
- Parcel 293267: 81,827 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293267.md
- Parcel 295488: 75,332 m² (7.53 ha, 18.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295488.md
- Parcel 5691425: 67,216 m² (6.72 ha, 16.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5691425.md
- Parcel 292261: 52,468 m² (5.25 ha, 12.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292261.md
- Parcel 312881: 50,411 m² (5.04 ha, 12.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312881.md
- Parcel 2388561: 42,535 m² (4.25 ha, 10.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388561.md
- Parcel 288971: 40,152 m² (4.02 ha, 9.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288971.md
- Parcel 291542: 39,668 m² (3.97 ha, 9.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291542.md
- Parcel 278743: 32,553 m² (3.26 ha, 8.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278743.md
- Parcel 2388559: 24,421 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388559.md
- Parcel 5661924: 24,088 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5661924.md
- Parcel 292260: 21,033 m² (2.1 ha, 5.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292260.md
- Parcel 313537: 20,555 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313537.md
- Parcel 5454473: 18,514 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5454473.md
- Parcel 278742: 14,666 m² (1.47 ha, 3.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278742.md
- Parcel 291199: 13,694 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291199.md
- Parcel 278741: 12,338 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278741.md
- Parcel 4222489: 9,758 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222489.md
- Parcel 278751: 9,540 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278751.md
- Parcel 304656: 5,021 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304656.md
- Parcel 311653: 5,006 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311653.md
- Parcel 5390168: 4,062 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5390168.md
- Parcel 5705623: 3,323 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5705623.md
- Parcel 5692575: 2,978 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5692575.md
- Parcel 286957: 2,676 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/286957.md
- Parcel 5320985: 1,880 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5320985.md
- Parcel 5705626: 958 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5705626.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)

12 applications, newest first.

- 21 Nov 2025, Offaly County Council 2560577: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new sewage treatment system and percolation filter along with provision of new domestic well and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560577/0
- 17 Nov 2025, Offaly County Council 2560560: N/a. Permission. Decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new sewage treatment system and percolation filter along with provision of new domestic well and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560560/0
- 31 Oct 2025, Offaly County Council 2560530: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a new single storey dwelling and garage along with associated car port, the opening of a new vehicular entrance to the site and a new septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560530/0
- 30 Sept 2025, Offaly County Council 2560454: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment tank with percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560454/0
- 28 Sept 2025, Offaly County Council 2560448: N/a. Permission. the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment tank with percolation area and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560448/0
- 29 Jun 2025, Offaly County Council 2560273: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Demolition of the existing detached garage and demolition of the existing sunroom. The construction of front and side extensions to the existing house, construction of a new detached domestic garage and associated landscaping and groundworks and other ancillary works. The development includes connections to the existing wastewater treatment system and domestic well.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560273/0
- 21 Dec 2022, Offaly County Council 22663: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22663/0
- 21 Jan 2022, Offaly County Council 2213: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE DEMOLITION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE SOUTH, EAST AND PORCH TO THE NORTH OF THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH, A REPLACEMENT SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST AND PORCH TO THE NORTH. ADJUSTMENTS TO AN EXISTING FIRST FLOOR WINDOW TO THE NORTH, ADDITIONAL FIRST FLOOR WINDOW TO THE EAST, REPLACING WINDOWS AND DOORS THROUGHOUT, ROOFLIGHTS TO THE NORTH WITH ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2213/0
- 22 Jan 2021, Offaly County Council 2125: Refused. Permission, 1 home. A BUNGALOW, PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL NECESSARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2125/0
- 25 Mar 2019, Offaly County Council 19123: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. ERECTION OF A NEW STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH AND THE ERECTION OF A NEW SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19123/0
- 25 Jun 2018, Offaly County Council 18273: Conditional. Permission. A PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING MAIN BUILDING WITH TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 1,124 SQM, PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH EAST ELEVATION OF EXISTING MAIN BUILDING WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 162 SQM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO THE REAR OF THE SITE. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO COMPRISE OF REMOVAL OF EXISTING STORAGE TANKS AND CHILLER UNIT, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TEMPORARY CHILL STORAGE ROOMS, STORAGE SHEDS, TOILET AREA, PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF BOUNDARY WALL, PARTIAL TRIMMING OF HEDGEROWS AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING TREES AFFECTED BY PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE AND TO ACCOMODATE REQUIRED SIGHTLINES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18273/0
- 16 May 2018, Offaly County Council 18215: N/a. Permission. A PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING MAIN BUILDING WITH TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 1,124SQM, PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH EAST ELEVATION OF EXISTING MAIN BUILDING WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 162 SQM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO THE REAR OF THE SITE. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO COMPRISE OF RELOCATION OF EXISTING STORAGE TANKS AND CHILLER UNIT, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TEMPORARY CHILL STORAGE ROOMS, STORAGE SHEDS, TOILET AREA, PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF BOUNDARY WALL, PARTIAL TRIMMING OF HEDGEROWS AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING TREES AFFECTED BY PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE AND TO ACCOMODATE REQUIERD SIGHTLINES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18215/0

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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 Newtown.

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

- OF017-022: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF017-022----. Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 509/08) shows potential outline of a circular enclosure. 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
- OF025-003: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF025-003----. This natural spring well is now housed in a modern pump house supplying water to the local households. There is no tradition of patterns or any saint associated with this well. 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
- OF025-004: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF025-004----. No surface remains of any enclosure indicated from GSI aerial photographs (GSI N 509/08) taken in 1973. 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
- OF025-005: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF025-005----. All that remains of this site is a raised square shaped platform (Dims. 9m E-W by 10m N-S). A curious ridge runs off the Eastern side of the platform, this ridge measures 2.5m wide and may have been the original roadway to the castle. There is no evidence of cut or decorated stone and no evidence of a bawn wall although this may have been located to the east of the castle where the modern orchard is located. The outhouses to the east of the castle displayed no evidence of worked stone from the castle in their walls (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 74-5). 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
- OF025-034: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF025-034----. Situated atop low rise of ground with good views in all directions. Circular area (diam. c. 42m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved tree-lined earthen bank (Wth. 2m; int. H. 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D. 0.4m). No clear entrance feature visible. Monument is depicted as a tree-ring and not as an antiquity on the current ed. OS 6-inch map. However on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map this enclosure is shown standing in the S quadrant of a field annotated on the map as 'Burial Field'. It is possible that this enclosure served as a burial ground which then lent its name to the field in which the monument is standing. The enclosure may have been a ringfort that was later used as a burial ground and subsquently converted into a tree-ring. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 December 2013
- OF025-036: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF025-036----. In pasture atop low gravel ridge, with Newtown Castle (OF025-005----) 300m to WNW. Cropmark of circular shaped area (approx. diam. 15m) defined by a fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimage and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Depicted as an area of woodland standing in centre of field annotated 'Glen Field' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Cropmark of enclosing ditch of woodland plantation visible on aerial images. Could be the remains of a folly/gazebo or a designed landscape feature associated with the woodland plantation. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/01/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 12 November 2020

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)

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

## 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 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-180991.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180991.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180991.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)

- Annagharvey: https://everytownland.com/offaly/annagharvey.md
- Ballycollin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycollin-180111.md
- Cloncoher: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloncoher.md
- Finter: https://everytownland.com/offaly/finter.md
- Killeenmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killeenmore.md
- Meelaghans: https://everytownland.com/offaly/meelaghans.md
- Raheenduff: https://everytownland.com/offaly/raheenduff.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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