Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of St. Peter's, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Baile Nua
Parcel 403682
- Area
- 355 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it, 172 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Newtown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- No susceptibility class on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3056 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 14.1 ha
- 35 acres
- Land parcels
- 310
- registered freehold, median 244 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
310 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 1 m² to 15,021 m² (1.5 ha, 3.71 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for a new astro training pitch to replace an existing smaller astro
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251645
24 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of alterations and extensions to an approved dwelling
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251369
14 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for extension and amendments to an existing dwelling.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231104
30 Aug 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations and extensions to an existing cludbhouse together
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231018
12 Dec 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for extension and amendments to an existing dwelling. The works will
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221647
14 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect 176.34 Kilowatts (388 No.) of roof mounted photo voltaic
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220797
7 Apr 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of A) pedestrian/bike entrance and ramp to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220450
17 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for 2 storey stockroom extension of 208sqm, revised ground and first
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220205
9 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a new car park bay ancillary to the existing
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220156
9 Feb 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a new car park bay ancillary to the existing
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220157
3 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a domestic shed to the side of an existi
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211883
18 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for extension and renovation to existing supermarket comprising 212 s
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211789
24 Aug 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for retentionfor the erection of 12 advertising signs at East terrac
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20211353
16 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a bay window and canopy to extend
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210372
9 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing log cabin as constructed and associated
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201307
30 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the (A) The construction of extensions to three ground floor
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200697
16 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for (1) retention of a single storey extension to rear elevation (2)
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200321
21 Feb 2020N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR (1) RETENTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200213
26 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROVISION OF BALL STOP NETTING ALONG SECTIONS OF THE PERIMITE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191566
12 Nov 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE PROVISION OF A BALL STOP NETTING ALONG SECTIONS OF THE PERIME
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191509
4 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191481
18 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH AND EXTENSION TO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190205
4 May 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION AND ALL AS
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180596
12 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING COVERED PATIO AREA TO CREATE INTERNAL
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180291
21 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION AND A RETENTION PERMISSION FOR A DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE GROUNDS OF WE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180209
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- No susceptibility class on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3056 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 141,076 m² (14.11 ha, 34.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Peter's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Wexford Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wexford Rural electoral division: 14,194 people in 5,189 households; 64% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Slipperygreen, Townparks, Whitemill North, Whitemill South
- 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.