Newtown

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 19 m² to 198,724 m² (19.87 ha, 49.11 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.

• O2Cluster (General)
  Newtown Cloonlara Cluster, Clare · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Clonlara Settlement Plan, Clare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Jun 2026Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26150

• 28 Oct 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a two storey detached house, a single storey detached garage, a new site entrance, connections to existing services and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22982

• 22 Feb 2021Conditional

  to construct street lighting over the entire length of its gravel walkway and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21150

• 5 Feb 2018Conditional

  for development which will consist of a sixty metre by forty metre Astro Turf and a forty metre hurling wall with four columns of flood lighting

  Permission · Clare County Council, 1875

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct extension to existing dwelling house, garage with office on first floor, fuel shed, greenhouse, tennis court, waste water treatment system, percolation area, and to demolish front porch and small rear extension of existing dwelling, existing haybarn and derelict sheds and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 1861

• 6 Feb 2017Conditional

  for development which will consist of the erection of floodlighting and a hurling wall and laying of a pathway

  Permission · Clare County Council, 1770

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

• CL053-043 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 18 December 2014

• CL053-048 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_994 (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.

• Newtown, Clonlara6 sales

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

1,071,669 m² (107.17 ha, 264.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltenanlea, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Lower

Electoral division

Kiltenanlea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,987 people lived in 660 households in the Kiltenanlea electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonlara, Mountcatherine, Oakfield, Ruanard, Springfield

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.