Newtown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 52 m² to 332,139 m² (33.21 ha, 82.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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.

• 4 Jun 2026N/a

  to construct single-storey extension to Northern side of existing premises and auxiliary site services.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2655

• 1 May 2024N/a

  for installation of a cattle underpass, a soiled water tank and associated works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2485

• 3 Apr 2024N/a

  installation of a cattle underpass, a soiled water tank and associated works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2469

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  for a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system & associated percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22847

• 26 Jul 2021Refused

  Section 254 Licence for wind breaker with 6ft panels to be placed at edge of concrete slab

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 21725

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Protection Area: Blackwater Estuary SPA 004028
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River And Estuary 000072

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1653 (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. Waterford.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

631,543 m² (63.15 ha, 156.06 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Templemichael, the unit of the census

Census 2022

465 people lived in 164 households in the Templemichael electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock, Killea, Templemichael

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.