Newtown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 52 m² to 596,353 m² (59.64 ha, 147.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

  of a dwelling house and garage on a site with revised site boundaries, provision of a 'granny flat'/self-contained residential unit linked to the dwelling house including a rear ground floor extension along with minor elevation alterations and effluent treatment system including percolation area to replace the existing septic tank system, and for all ancillary services and site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2660836

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: Coole-Garryland Complex SAC 000252
• Special Protection Area: Coole-Garryland SPA 004107
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252

Recorded monuments

• GA122-117 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in pastureland. This poorly preserved subcircular cashel (c. 32.5m N-S) is defined by a collapsed and badly defaced drystone wall (Wth 2.75m in S sector; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.35m) all round. Inner and outer wall-facing was noted in the S sector. A field boundary clips the monument at NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2018

• GA122-118 Enclosure
  Description

  In mixed pasture and scrubland. Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map; partially levelled on the 1922 edition. On inspection in September 1982 all that survived were the poorly preserved remains of an enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a wall footing of massive stones from NE through E to WSW. At WSW the wall dog-legged and ran WNW to meet a modern drystone wall curving from WNW to NE. The latter wall, which may have mirrored the outline of the earlier wall, formed part of the enclosing wall surrounding a tree copse to the NW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019

• GA122-119 Church
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland and scrubland. Indicated on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small unroofed rectangular building (c. 12m NW-SE; c. 5.5m NE-SW) at the SW tip of a graveyard (GA122-119001-). This area is densely overgrown with almost impenetrable thorn trees and briars. No trace of the chapel was located. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 March 2020

• GA122-119001 Graveyard
  Description

  In pastureland and scrubland. Indicated on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 61m NW-SE; c. 33m NE-SW) which extended immediately to the E and N of a chapel (GA122-119----). It is densely overgrown with almost impenetrable thorn trees and briars. Some graveslabs (L 1.1m; Wth 0.5m) as well as upright and collapsed headstones were noted in the N sector. The latter were roughly hewn, apart from one (H 0.36m; Wth 0.34m) which was inscribed with the letters I and H; there was also a small Latin cross between the letters. The adjoining chapel is named 'Calluragh Chapel' on the OS 6-inch maps, suggesting that this may be a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 March 2020

Architectural heritage

• Road (section of), 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Limestone causeway, erected c.1860, carrying road over Newtown Lough. Rubble revetments, battered to south side. Rubble parapet walls made of smaller stones, with some drainage holes to base.

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 water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_727 (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. Galway.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

950,850 m² (95.09 ha, 234.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

789 people lived in 274 households in the Beagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylennan, Ballysheedy, Castlequarter, Coole Demesne, Drumminacloghaun, Glenbrack, Newtown (Regan)

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.