Newcastle

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcastle, from 328 m² to 334,740 m² (33.47 ha, 82.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Newcastle 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.

• 29 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a serviced dwelling house with detached

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250934

• 1 Apr 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of the erection of an

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250361

• 31 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention and completion of the erection of a domestic garage and

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201001

• 21 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191426

• 27 May 2019N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190723

• 13 May 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WOR

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190636

• 21 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171702

• 6 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170110

• 23 Jan 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170043

• 2 Nov 2016Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161218

• 13 Sept 2016Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161017

• 16 Aug 2016N/a

  ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLINGHOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160912

• 1 Jun 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20160603

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 Newcastle.

Recorded monuments

• WX042-024001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. This is thought to have been built by the Rossiters of Rathmacknee (WX042-029001-) (Jeffrey 1979, 83), but it was owned by Richard Jennings in 1640 together with 130 acres at Newcastle and 135 acres at Gaynestown in Kilmannan parish (Simington 1953, 137). In the 18th century it was owned by the Lett family (Jeffrey 1979, 84-5). The castle consists of a tower house (ext. dims. 5.95 E-W; 5.55m N-S; H c. 8.7m) with battered walls and good quoins that survives to the third storey. The original pointed doorway (Wth 0.9m; H 1.5m) of undressed stone is now blocked. It is situated on the E wall towards the NE angle, and is protected by a murder hole in the lobby. The lobby leads into the ground floor (int. dims 2.78m E-W; 2.61m N-S) which has a double splayed loop in embrasures on the S and W walls, a chamber at the SE angle, and a secondary entrance in the N wall. A mural stairs rising from the lobby in the E wall give access through a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.66m; H 1.38m) at the S end of the E wall to the first floor under an E-W barrel-vault with one window in the W wall. The floor was supported on rebates on the N and S walls. A newel stairs at the SE angle leads to the second floor over the vault (int. dims 4.05m E-W; 3.68m N-S) through a destroyed doorway. This floor has a window embrasure in each wall, that on the S with seats and a complete granite-framed rectangular window (Wth 0.31m; H 0.92m) with chamfered edges, but the others are blocked or destroyed. There is a gun-loop or slop stone in the N wall and an ante-chamber at the NE angle, entered through a lintelled doorway (Wth 0.53m; H 1.55m), commands the murder-hole. The ceiling was supported on corbels in the N and S walls, but there is no evidence of a fireplace or garderobe. The newel stairs in the SE angle continues to the third floor, but no features are visible in the ivy-covered walls. A fragment of a bawn wall (L 10.6m; H 2m; T 0.75m) runs N from the NW angle of the tower, and there is a two-storey, five-bay dwelling house attached to the E side of the tower house. Archaeological testing (07E901) immediately to the N produced no archaeological material (Purcell 2010), The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 28 May, 2013

• WX042-024002 Bawn
  Description

  A fragment of a bawn wall (L 10.6m; H 2m; T 0.75m) runs N from the NW angle of the tower house (WX042-024001-). Archaeological testing (07E0901) immediately to the N produced no archaeological material (Purcell 2010). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 May, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1767 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three- or five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1777, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey lean-to central return (north). Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan extending into lean-to slate roof (north) with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with red brick Flemish bond buttressed chimney stacks to apexes having chamfered stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, red brick Flemish bond "wallhead" chimney stack to rear (north) elevation having chamfered stringcourse below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite monolithic surround centred on "bas-relief" keystone framing glazed timber panelled door. Paired square-headed window openings centred on square-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site.

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 Newcastle, 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 Newcastle.

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 Newcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Newcastle · An Caisleán Nua

Area

960,774 m² (96.08 ha, 237.41 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmannan, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Newcastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

537 people lived in 185 households in the Newcastle electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycappoge, Cherriestown, Glendrislagh, Gortins Little, Heavenstown, Mountaingate, Spelsherstown, Woodtown

Placenames

Newcastle 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.