Newtown
Newtown is a townland in the civil parish of Westpalstown, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is An Baile Nua.
Parcel 1813540
- Area
- 70,636 m² (7.06 ha, 17.45 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- P1 RU - Rural (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Newtown
Planning applications on this parcel
18 Feb 2025Grant permission
The Proposed Amendment will consist of an amendment to the previously
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0124E
30 Jun 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of permission for a Solar PV Energy Devel
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0130
22 Feb 2023Invalid application due to site notice
The development will consist of permission for a Solar PV Energy Devel
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0056
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 126.5 ha
- 313 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 4,371 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 8 m² to 157,008 m² (15.7 ha, 38.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 May 2025Refuse permission
Permission for a single-storey, three-bedroom detached dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0395
28 Apr 2025Invalid application
The development will consist of Planning permission for a single-store
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0363
18 Feb 2025Grant permission
The Proposed Amendment will consist of an amendment to the previously
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0124E
30 Jun 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of permission for a Solar PV Energy Devel
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0130
22 Feb 2023Invalid application due to site notice
The development will consist of permission for a Solar PV Energy Devel
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0056
15 Dec 2016Grant permission
4 No. polytunnels for horticultural use and associated ancillary site
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0574
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 1,264,686 m² (126.47 ha, 312.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Westpalstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Ballyboghil, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,629 people lived in 473 households in the Ballyboghil electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brownstown, Calliaghstown, Damastown, Leastown, Murragh, Westpalstown
- 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.