Newtown

141 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 35 m² to 63,283 m² (6.33 ha, 15.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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.

• 30 Oct 2025Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560527

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  The construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all other associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560484

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2488

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  domestic garden shed/store and all ancillary site works to facilitate same.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460158

• 27 Mar 2020Conditional

  DESIGN AND POSITIONAL ON SITE CHANGES TO AS BUILT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. PL2/07/1089 AND EX12068

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 20116

• 17 Dec 2019Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA (D) NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19599

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Little Brosna Callows SPA 004086
• Natural Heritage Area: River Little Brosna Callows NHA 000564

Recorded monuments

• OF029-014 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Disused holy well which has been covered over and totally inaccessible. Known locally as Tober Dligh O Rurke (OSFNB 1838-40, 605). 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF029-023 Burial mound
  Description

  Possible cemetery mound that is located at a gravel quarry owned by Banagher Concrete Ltd. near Kilmochonna church and graveyard (OF029-012001/002-). Human bone was discovered on the Northern edge of the quarry on October 1st 1997. A small hillock measuirng 40m E-W into which human burials had been inserted. Some of these burials had been disturbed during destruction of part of this hillock, of which unfortunately only about 20m stripped of topsoil and the gravel surface exposed, still remains. The northern side of the hillock remains substantially intact, because except where the access road has exposed a section-face, it is located in a grassed field adjoining the quarry. The lower portion of an in situ human burial is visible in the exposed section-face, the remainder of the skeleton is undisturbed. This extended supine burial is oriented E-W with the head to W, is lying in fine sand beneath a 40cm layer of gravelly top-soil which is in turn covered with spoil from the 1995 construction of an access road. At the eastern end of the burial there is possible evidence of a grave-cut, and at the western end, roughly beneath the area of the head there is an organic layer 1.5 cm thick which might indicate the presence of a plank or bier beneath the body (O'Brien unpublished report 1997). 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF029-025 Burial ground
  Description

  In May 1963 a number of human skeletons were discovered during quarrying operations near Lusmagh, Co. Offaly. A skull and some bones were noticed protruding from the upper face of the sandpit. Skeletons had been found here over a few years but these had all been reburied. Work at the sandpit was halted as a result of the discovery, which was reported to the NMI by the Garda Siochana at Banagher, Co. Offaly. A rescue excavation was undertaken by Peter Danaher. The human remains were re-interred in the local cemetery. This report is based on Danaher's account and plan of the site. In 1997 burials (OF029-023----) were discovered in the same quarry in the adjacent townland of Newtown. The site was visited by Mary Cahill on behalf of the NMI and, later, by Dr. Elizabeth O'Brien on behalf of the National Monuments Section, Dept. Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands. On this occasion the site was not excavated as this area was not due to be disturbed any further by Banagher Concrete. Kilmochonna Church and graveyard (OF029-012/012001-) are located some 500m west of the site. However disturbed human bone was collected from the quarry floor and a loose bone from an undisturbed burial in the bank was also removed. Bones were visible in the face of the pit approximately 0.5m below the surface. Lazy beds had been dug across the ridge in a north-west/south-east direction. It was evident from surface indications that these had been dug subsequent to the burial of the bodies. Trial trenches were dug across the lazy beds a few metres back from the edge of the sandpit. The remains of five incomplete skeletons were discovered, all lying on a vein of fine sand approximately 0.50m under a gravel-rich clay layer. No other features were noted and they were presumably simple dug graves without any stone protection. Four of these were oriented west-east and the fifth lay in a south-north direction with the feet to the north. All of the skeletons lay in a supine position, and from what remained, appeared to be extended. Graves 1 and 2 lay side-by-side and were located approximately four metres from graves 3, 4 and 5, which were in close proximity to each other. Grave 1 One half of this skeleton had collpased over the edge of the sandpit. The body lay in a supine position with the head to the west and the feet to the east. The lower jawbone and teeth were present but no skull (probably due to the furrow at this point), and only the left ribs, pelvis, femur, tibia and fibula remained. This was thought by the excavator to be the remains of a child. Grave 2 According to Danaher, this was an adult skeleton. It lay beside skeleton A with the head probably opposite the pelvis of grave 1. The body lay in a supine position with the head to the west and the feet to the east. The remains consisted of the left part of the pelvis, femur, tibia and foot bones-the right tibia and foot bones-the rest had presumably collpased over the edge of the pit. Grave 3 This was identified by Danaher as an adult skeleton. It was located immediately underneath skeleton D. It lay in a supine position with the head to the north and the feet to the west. The remains consisted of skull, ribs, pelvis and right femur. Grave 4 Danaher identified this as the remains of an adult skeleton. This lay in a supine position with the head to the west and the feet to the east. The remains consisted of both tibiae and the feet bones. Grave 5 According to Danaher the remains were that of an adult skeleton. This lay in a supine position with the head to the west and the feet to the east. The remains consisted of pelvis, both femora and a tibia. In her report for the Nat. Mons Section, Dr. O'Brien commented that it is likely that the ruined medieval church is the site of an ancient foundation. Saint Mochonna, possibly of Lusmag, is recorded in the lists of Irish saints in Corpus genealogiarum sanctorum Hiberniae (O Riain 1985, 149). O'Brien considers that this may represent a secular ancestral cemetery which lay outside the church boundaries. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 30 September 2010

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 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 · An Baile Nua

Area

1,295,732 m² (129.57 ha, 320.18 acres)

Civil parish

Lusmagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Lusmagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lusmagh electoral division: 548 people in 193 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh (Co. Tipperary), Ballylier, Ballynasrah, Ballyoughter (Co. Tipperary), Caplevane, Gortarevan, Kilmochonna

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.