Newtown

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 958 m² to 493,699 m² (49.37 ha, 122 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  Decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new sewage treatment system and percolation filter along with provision of new domestic well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560577

• 17 Nov 2025N/a

  Decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new sewage treatment system and percolation filter along with provision of new domestic well and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560560

• 31 Oct 2025Conditional

  a new single storey dwelling and garage along with associated car port, the opening of a new vehicular entrance to the site and a new septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560530

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment tank with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560454

• 28 Sept 2025N/a

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment tank with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560448

• 29 Jun 2025N/a

  Demolition of the existing detached garage and demolition of the existing sunroom. The construction of front and side extensions to the existing house, construction of a new detached domestic garage and associated landscaping and groundworks and other ancillary works. The development includes connections to the existing wastewater treatment system and domestic well.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560273

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22663

• 21 Jan 2022Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE SOUTH, EAST AND PORCH TO THE NORTH OF THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH, A REPLACEMENT SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST AND PORCH TO THE NORTH. ADJUSTMENTS TO AN EXISTING FIRST FLOOR WINDOW TO THE NORTH, ADDITIONAL FIRST FLOOR WINDOW TO THE EAST, REPLACING WINDOWS AND DOORS THROUGHOUT, ROOFLIGHTS TO THE NORTH WITH ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2213

• 22 Jan 2021Refused

  A BUNGALOW, PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL NECESSARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2125

• 25 Mar 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH AND THE ERECTION OF A NEW SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19123

• 25 Jun 2018Conditional

  A PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING MAIN BUILDING WITH TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 1,124 SQM, PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH EAST ELEVATION OF EXISTING MAIN BUILDING WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 162 SQM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO THE REAR OF THE SITE. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO COMPRISE OF REMOVAL OF EXISTING STORAGE TANKS AND CHILLER UNIT, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TEMPORARY CHILL STORAGE ROOMS, STORAGE SHEDS, TOILET AREA, PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF BOUNDARY WALL, PARTIAL TRIMMING OF HEDGEROWS AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING TREES AFFECTED BY PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE AND TO ACCOMODATE REQUIRED SIGHTLINES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18273

• 16 May 2018N/a

  A PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING MAIN BUILDING WITH TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 1,124SQM, PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH EAST ELEVATION OF EXISTING MAIN BUILDING WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 162 SQM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO THE REAR OF THE SITE. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO COMPRISE OF RELOCATION OF EXISTING STORAGE TANKS AND CHILLER UNIT, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TEMPORARY CHILL STORAGE ROOMS, STORAGE SHEDS, TOILET AREA, PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF BOUNDARY WALL, PARTIAL TRIMMING OF HEDGEROWS AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING TREES AFFECTED BY PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE AND TO ACCOMODATE REQUIERD SIGHTLINES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18215

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

• OF017-022 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 509/08) shows potential outline of a circular enclosure. 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

• OF025-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  This natural spring well is now housed in a modern pump house supplying water to the local households. There is no tradition of patterns or any saint associated with this well. 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

• OF025-004 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface remains of any enclosure indicated from GSI aerial photographs (GSI N 509/08) taken in 1973. 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

• OF025-005 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  All that remains of this site is a raised square shaped platform (Dims. 9m E-W by 10m N-S). A curious ridge runs off the Eastern side of the platform, this ridge measures 2.5m wide and may have been the original roadway to the castle. There is no evidence of cut or decorated stone and no evidence of a bawn wall although this may have been located to the east of the castle where the modern orchard is located. The outhouses to the east of the castle displayed no evidence of worked stone from the castle in their walls (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 74-5). 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

• OF025-034 Burial ground
  Description

  Situated atop low rise of ground with good views in all directions. Circular area (diam. c. 42m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved tree-lined earthen bank (Wth. 2m; int. H. 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D. 0.4m). No clear entrance feature visible. Monument is depicted as a tree-ring and not as an antiquity on the current ed. OS 6-inch map. However on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map this enclosure is shown standing in the S quadrant of a field annotated on the map as 'Burial Field'. It is possible that this enclosure served as a burial ground which then lent its name to the field in which the monument is standing. The enclosure may have been a ringfort that was later used as a burial ground and subsquently converted into a tree-ring. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 December 2013

• OF025-036 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture atop low gravel ridge, with Newtown Castle (OF025-005----) 300m to WNW. Cropmark of circular shaped area (approx. diam. 15m) defined by a fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimage and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Depicted as an area of woodland standing in centre of field annotated 'Glen Field' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Cropmark of enclosing ditch of woodland plantation visible on aerial images. Could be the remains of a folly/gazebo or a designed landscape feature associated with the woodland plantation. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/01/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 12 November 2020

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

At the centre of the townland of Newtown, about 1 in 10 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.

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

3,277,823 m² (327.78 ha, 809.97 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Cappancur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,701 people lived in 573 households in the Cappancur electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagharvey, Ballycollin, Cloncoher, Finter, Killeenmore, Meelaghans, Raheenduff

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.