Newtown

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 229 m² to 140,813 m² (14.08 ha, 34.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  (i) construction of a new easy feed slatted livestock house. Proposed slatted house to incorporate associated underground slatted slurry storage tank with external agitation points, straw bedded lie-back, crush & ancillary external concrete (ii) Construct a silage slab. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561128

• 23 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of a garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221036

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: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279

Recorded monuments

• LI011-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope below brow of low hill. Circular area (22.3m N-S; 22.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.95m). Bank, best preserved SE->NW, lowers at NE where it has been denuded by cattle. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to SW. Field boundary clearance debris has been dumped against outer face of bank SW->NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI011-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope. Circular area (24.5m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.1m) SSE->SSW. Bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.3m) is highest S->N where slope of ground is greatest; Bank grades to scarped edge (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.3m) along W arc. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI011-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop ridge. Sub-circular area (35m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks, with intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m). Outer bank (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.95m) incorporated into field boundary system E->WSW, where it is heavily masked by overgrowth, so that site occupies SE corner of field. Inner bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m), best preserved WSW->N, lowers NNW->ENE (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.45m). Interior, under pasture, has fenced-off area containing haystack just inside bank at E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI011-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 29.8m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.95m; Wth 1.3m). Bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m), covered by hawthorn bushes, is best preserved E->NW. Causeway entrance at N (Wth 4m). Fosse is truncated by field boundary NE->E. Low earth-and-stone counterscarp bank (H 0.3m; Wth 4m) E->NW. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI011-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on low rise in gently undulating terrain. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by scarped edge (H 2.1m; Wth 4.75m) with external fosse (Wth 2.1m) and counterscarp bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.85m). Enclosing element is almost completely obscured by undergrowth. Scarp is best preserved along E side, but lowers towards W (H 1.6m). Counterscarp bank is overlain by dry-stone field boundary at NNW->N and SE->SSW; site occupies SW corner of field. Gaps in bank at NW (Wth 1.5m) and NNE (Wth 4.1m). Interior is covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1800. Having extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped thatched roof to main block with red brick chimneystack. Pitched slate roof having red brick chimneystack, render copings, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods to extension. Rendered walls, rubble stone visible in places. Gable wall to west elevation rebuilt, with recess to wall, round-headed openings with brick voussoirs visible. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Render surround to window to east elevation, extension. Square-headed openings to north elevation having render surrounds and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening to west elevation of extension with timber framed window. Square-headed opening to front (south) elevation having timber battened door.

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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

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. Limerick.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

1,486,514 m² (148.65 ha, 367.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

460 people lived in 174 households in the Castletown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drominycullane, Graigues, Milltown, Moig West, Mornane

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.