Newtown

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 231 m² to 519,486 m² (51.95 ha, 128.37 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 53 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  renovate and upgrade existing derelict house, construct single storey extension to front elevation, install new sewage treatment system and percolation areas and include all works ancillary to the overall development.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460597

• 13 Aug 2021Conditional

  to retain and complete a 3 bay slatted shed with an underground slurry storage tank, attached milking parlour and to construct a dry bedded shed with cubicles and all associated site works. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211580

• 13 Jul 2020Conditional

  a storey and a half style dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, waste water treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200913

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

• ME005-105 House - Neolithic
  Description

  Located on a rise towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a NW-SE stream c. 70m to the NW. An occupation level was identified by Claire Cotter on the line of a Bórd Gáis pipeline from Dunleer, Co. Lough, to Mullagh, Co. Cavan. It proved to be a Neolithic house with a Bronze Age phase, and was excavated (E000633) by Eoin Halpin. The house was rectangular (dims c. 10m x 6m) divided into two rooms, the E (dims 6m x 5.5m) with a doorway (Wth 1m) at E to the exterior and an internal doorway (Wth 1.5m) to the W room, the full extent of which did not survive and it may be that the W end was open. Three post-holes on the central axis and the load-bearing post-and-plank N and S walls supported the roof. A pit in the E room was filled with burnt stone and ash. Charcoal samples from the foundation trench produced calibrated determinations of 3971-3706 BC and 3936-3697 BC. A Bronze Age urn burial (ME005-105001-) was inserted in the floor of the E room. A gully (Wth c. 0.4m; D 0.1m) c. 2m to the E was C-shaped (dims c. 7m N-S; c. 6m plus E-W) and may have formed an associated enclosure. Just 2m N of this was an irregularly-shaped stony platform (dims c. 10m E-W; 5m N-S). Amongst the finds were sherds of Neolithic pottery. (Halpin and Gowen 1991; Halpin 1992; Gowen 1992) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 September 2018

• ME005-105001 Pit-burial
  Description

  A pit burial containing an unusually small vase urn (H c. 0.22m) was inserted in the floor of the Neolithic house (ME005-105----). (Halpin and Gowen 1991, 38; Gowen 1992, 27) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 September 2018

• ME005-108 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Situated in a fold between hills c. 350m to the W and c. 630m to the ENE with an arc of higher ground connecting the hills c. 200m to the S. A small copse (diam. c. 30m) c. 200m SSW of Newtown House is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map together with other similar features. It is the only such feature in the vicinity surviving on the 1908 6-inch map where it is represented as a hachured feature, and it is still extant, but it is probably an ornamental tree-ring. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 September 2018

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 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newtown.

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. Meath.

Name

Newtown

Area

1,358,675 m² (135.87 ha, 335.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainham, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Lower

Electoral division

Kilmainham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

857 people lived in 307 households in the Kilmainham electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmaghbreague, Ballymakane, Boggan, Drumbulrisk, Kilfannan, Shancor, Towas

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.