Newtown

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 92 m² to 219,356 m² (21.94 ha, 54.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 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.

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660400

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660392

• 17 Jul 2026N/a

  a dwelling house and detached Garage with Septic Tank and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660384

• 20 Nov 2025Conditional

  permission for change of plans previously granted (planning reference No. 228) to Construct 1 No. Dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all associated Site works at Newtown, Horseleap, Co.Offaly

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560575

• 17 Nov 2025N/a

  permission for change of plans previously granted (planning reference No. 228) to Construct 1 No. Dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all associated Site works at Newtown, Horseleap, Co.Offaly

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560562

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED SHED AND UNDERGROUND NUTRIENT STORAGE TANK ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23185

• 20 Jan 2022Conditional

  TO CONSTRUCT 1 NO. DWELLING, GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 228

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO.DWELLING, GARAGE , WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20470

• 30 Jul 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO.DWELLING, GARAGE , WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20334

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18511

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.

Recorded monuments

• OF002-009 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Formerly situated on rising gound in an area of undulating countryside. Depicted as a raised circular platform on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and outlined as a circular feature on the 1908 ed. OS 6-inch map. Site was destroyed several years ago leaving no remains visible at ground level. An earlier report (SMR File 1977) described this monument as' an earthwork has been recently levelled. It appears to have been a ringfort approx. 25-30m in diameter. The interior was gently rounded'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 19 December 2011

• OF002-011 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the site of a natural ridge which appears to have been scarped on the eastern side. This ridge is located on reclaimed land in an area full of natural eskers. It is possible that this is a natural feature of no archaeological significance due to its location and shape. The ridge only measures 12m wide which is too small for a ringfort. Indicated as a possible earthwork on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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.

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

Name

Newtown · Dúchoill

Area

2,067,464 m² (206.75 ha, 510.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcumreragh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcoursey

Electoral division

Kilcumreragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcumreragh electoral division: 553 people in 187 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackagh, Cartron Glebe, Dunard, Faheeran, Killeenycallaghan (Co. Westmeath), Laragh (Co. Westmeath), Russagh, Templemacateer (Co. Westmeath)

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.