Newtown Lower

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown Lower, from 531 m² to 151,243 m² (15.12 ha, 37.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Lower 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.

• 8 Oct 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of: a) Conservation repairs

  Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211563

• 12 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of existing pre-fabricated building for use of clubhou

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210018

• 19 Jul 2017Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A STEEL PORTAL FRAMED AGRICULTURAL

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170944

• 15 Nov 2016Refused

  PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A STEEL PORTAL FRAMED AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161265

• 9 Nov 2016N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A STEEL PORTAL FRAMED AGRICULTURAL S

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20161245

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown Lower.

Architectural heritage

• The Deeps, country house, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (eight-bay deep) single-storey over basement country house, built 1836, on a rectangular plan; five-bay full-height rear (south) elevation. Sold, 1865. "Improved", 1880, producing present composition. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1947. Resold, 1979. Resold, 1981, to accommodate alternative use. Resold, 2001. Undergoing restoration, 2007. Hipped slate roofs on a quadrangular plan with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee-hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered "bas-relief" plinth with rendered pilasters to corners supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on blind frieze below parapet having rendered coping. Round-headed window openings centred on square-headed door opening (north) with cut-granite step threshold, rendered doorcase with monolithic pilasters supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on "Acanthus"-detailed fluted consoles, and concealed dressings framing margined fixed-pane fittings centred on timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (south) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (west) or nine-over-six (east) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): hall (north) retaining "basket weave" timber parquet floor, carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and groin vaulted ceiling; square-headed door opening into corridor with carved timber surround framing timber panelled door; top-lit corridor retaining "basket weave" timber parquet floor, carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and pilasters supporting groin vaulted ceilings centred on "oeil-de-boeuf" lanterns; study (north-west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; reception room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to opposing window openings framing timber panelled shutters, reclaimed inlaid cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; reception room (south-west) retaining carved timber Classical-style surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors centred on reclaimed inlaid cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece with carved timber surrounds to opposing window openings framing timber panelled shutters, and picture railing below egg-and-dart-detailed decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; bow-ended reception room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to opposing window openings, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds.

• The Deeps, walled garden, 1842–1903 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1903, on a rounded cornered square plan with creeper- or ivy-covered boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping; red brick Flemish bond surface finish to courtyard elevations. Now disused. Set in grounds shared with The Deeps.

• The Deeps, worker's house, 1827–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  [Site Inaccessible]

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 Lower, 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 high, 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 Lower.

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

Name

Newtown Lower · An Baile Nua Íochtarach

Area

784,740 m² (78.47 ha, 193.91 acres)

Civil parish

Tikillin, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere East

Electoral division

Kilpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

762 people lived in 260 households in the Kilpatrick electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Deeps, Newtown Upper, Tikillin

Placenames

Newtown Lower 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.