Newtown

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 180 m² to 192,116 m² (19.21 ha, 47.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  for permission for a new dwelling, garage, upgrading existing laneway and entrance on to existing laneway and junction between existing lane and public road, new pullin areas on existing lane, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360040

• 15 Sept 2022N/a

  new dwelling, garage, upgrading existing entrance on to existing laneway and junction between existing lane and public road, new pullin areas on existing lane, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221004

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  single storey extension and alterations to existing house along with the retention for the as constructed dwelling house, along with a proposed effluent disposal system to current EPA requirements and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211251

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  single storey dwelling house and domestic garage, upgrade of the existing site entrance and access driveway, on-site sewage treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21535

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.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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_3403 (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 with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Newtown

Area

431,473 m² (43.15 ha, 106.62 acres)

Civil parish

Drumkay, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,247 people lived in 3,334 households in the Wicklow Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinteskin, Ballyhara, Bonabrocka, Raheenmore, Toberaviller

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.