Newtown Great

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown Great, from 437 m² to 564,489 m² (56.45 ha, 139.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Great 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.

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  the construction of a dormer dwelling (c. 266sqm) and a single storey garage. Planning is to include proposed new site entrance and all associated site works and proposed wastewater treatment system. Revised by significant further information consisting of; revised location of vehicular entrance to site required to achieve Sight Lines

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191425

• 17 May 2019Refused

  Ext of duration continuance of use of existing quarry workings P.Ref.01/2270, Pl.09.130209.) comprising extraction of sand and gravel (on c.27 ha), washing, crushing and screening, silt lagoons, overburden storage and site access on lands at Netown Great Townland, Naas, Co.Kildare. Also continued use of canteen, toilet facilities, control room, wheelwash, service shed, bunded fuel storage and other ancillaries. The development will also consist of the extension of quarry workings, comprising of extraction of sand and gravel to the west on c.8.5ha and to the east on c.8.6ha of lands and construction of landscaping/screening berms. It is also proposed to retain the weighbridge facility. The total area (c.44.1ha) will be subject to progressive restoration with final restoration to agriculture/woodland amenity use. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be sunmitted with this application.

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 19551

• 24 May 2017Conditional

  of: (1) A pair of entrance gates and front boundary fencing; (2) An existing mobile home with timber outdoor garden deck for a temporary period of twelve months beginning on the date of grant of planning permission; (3) A garden shed 6sqm; (4) Piped network within the existing percolation area. The application also includes new development which is to be undertaken in the future comprising: (5) The demolition of an unauthorised extension to the existing building 18sqm: (6) The erection of a new single extension containing 132sq metres; (7) The removal of the existing septic tank which unlawfully occupies this land and its installation in an adjacent part of the site; (8) The extension to the pipe network within the percolation area identified in sub-item (4) above; and (9) The use of the resultant 154sq metre building on the site as a dwelling containing two bedrooms, combined kitchen/dining area and living room, as well as ancillary bathroom, hallway and utility accommodation. Revised by significant further information consisting of; the extension has been redesigned and now has a first floor accommodation in a two-storey section to the rear with an increased overall floor area from 154sqm to 186sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17598

• 10 May 2017N/a

  of: (1) A pair of entrance gates and front boundary fencing; (2) An existing mobile home with timber outdoor garden deck for a temporary period of twelve months beginning on the date of grant of planning permission; (3) A garden shed 6sqm; (4) Piped network within the existing percolation area. The application also includes new development which is to be undertaken in the future comprising: (5) The demolition of an unauthorised extension to the existing building 18sqm: (6) The erection of a new single extension containing 132sq metres; (7) The removal of the existing septic tank which unlawfully occupies this land and its installation in an adjacent part of the site; (8) The extension to the pipe network within the percolation area identified in sub-item (4) above; and (9) The use of the resultant 154sq metre building on the site as a dwelling containing two bedrooms, combined kitchen/dining area and living room, as well as ancillary bathroom, hallway and utility accommodation,

  Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17529

• 18 Apr 2017N/a

  of (1) A pair of entrance gates and front boundary fencing; (2) Of an existing mobile home and timber deck for a temporary period of twelve months, beginning on the date of grant of permission; (3) Of a garden shed 6sqm; (4) Of the pipe network within the existing percolation area. The application also includes new development which is to be taken in the future comprising (5) The demolition of an unauthorised extension to the existing building 18sqm; (6) The erection of a 132sqm single storey extension to this existing structure; (7) The removal of the existing septic tank which unlawfully occupies this land and its installation in an adjacent part of the site and (8) The use of the resultant 154sqm metres building as a dwelling containing two bedrooms, combined kitchen/dining area and living room, as well as ancillary bathroom, hallway and utility accommodation

  Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17425

• 24 Mar 2017N/a

  (1) the demolition of part of a single storey vernacular cottage 6.2sqm and the erection of a replacement addition 18sqm single storey; (2) a septic tank and percolation area; (3) a pair of entrance gates and front boundary fencing; (4) an existing mobile home for a temporary period of twelve months; (5) a timber outdoor garden deck. The application also includes new development which is to be taken in the future comprising (6) the erection of a new single storey extension containing 132sqm; (7) an extension to the pipe network within the percolation area identified in sub-item (2) above and (8) the use of the resultant 159sqm building on the site as a dwelling containing two bedrooms, combined kitchen / dining area and living room, as well as ancillary bathroom, hallway and utility accommodation

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17320

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newtown Great.

Recorded monuments

• KD024-035 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the N-foot of an E-W esker. In 1837, according to the OSL (Herity 2002, 56 [165]), the well, ‘… was formerly frequented as a holy well.’ A natural spring (D 0.2m) is enclosed by a D-shaped mortared stone wall (int. diam. 1.3m E-W) with a straight N side (int. L 0.6m). The wall (H 1m; T 0.7m) has a gap at N (Wth 0.6m) and carries a small statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at S. A small rectangular mortared stone altar ( L 1.4m N-S; Wth 0.8m; H 0.85m) stands 0.6m to the NNE. (Jackson 1979-80, 153) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 05 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Great, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2876 (ZIP).

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 Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Newtown Great · An Baile Nua Mór

Area

1,927,615 m² (192.76 ha, 476.32 acres)

Civil parish

Rathmore, and its townlands

Barony

Naas North

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,019 people lived in 303 households in the Newtown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 60% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athgarrett, Blackhall, Glenmore, Newtownpark, Slieveroe, Walshestown, Walshestown

Placenames

Newtown Great 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.