Newtown North

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown North, from 251 m² to 270,300 m² (27.03 ha, 66.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Newtown North 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.

• 2 Jun 2026N/a

  the renovation and extension of an existing single storey house, including the demolition of the existing single storey sun room and its replacement with a two storey extension, minor alterations to the existing internal room layout and external fenestration, the provision of a Secondary Treatment System and soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660621

• 21 Oct 2025Conditional

  a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, solar panels, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, rainwater harvesting system, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25344

• 1 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural shed consisting of a dairy, plant room, milking parlour, an underground soiled water storage tank, the erection of a meal bin and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560395

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  planning (22/500) for the construction of a vehicular entrance, split level dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360776

• 10 Feb 2023Conditional

  the demolition of a loose house, construction of a loose house and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2381

• 5 May 2022Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, split level dwelling house, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22500

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  the construction of a single and two storey extension to the side and rear of an existing dwelling, the installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, a new vehicular entrance, all ancillary site works, the demolition of the rear extension and sheds and partial demolition of an outbuilding

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211185

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of an easyfeed unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21790

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21615

• 30 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21585

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 North.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an elevated area of an E-facing slope, in pasture, with excellent views from N-E-S-SW and moderate views elsewhere. Annotated ‘Rathaleen’ and depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 25m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 7.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.25m) with entrance gap (overall Wth 6m; base Wth 2.8m) at E. A collapse section of roof from a souterrain (LI024-302----) cuts into the interior of the bank at W. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 July 2020

• LI024-302 Souterrain
  Description

  On an elevated area of an E-facing slope, in pasture, with excellent views from N-E-S-SW and 200m NW of a townland boundary with Farranafina. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Within ringfort (LI024-079----) abutting bank at WNW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a possible collapse into a souterrain which is visible as a sod covered, sunken oval-shaped area (12m WNW-ESE; 8m NNE-SSW) defined by a broad bank (Wth 8.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.2m) at SSW and a narrower bank (Wth 6.45m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.2m) at NNE. Monument is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 15 October 2020

• LI033-167 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  The cropmark of a possible ringbarrow is evident on Google Earth aerial photographs, at this location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 4 September 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Newtown North · An Baile Nua Thuaidh

Area

1,118,155 m² (111.82 ha, 276.3 acres)

Civil parish

Oola, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Templebredon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templebredon electoral division: 588 people in 197 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlecluggin, Cluggin, Farranafina, Garryheakin, Gortaclareen, Kilmacogue, Maelra, Newtown, Rahard

Placenames

Newtown North 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.