Newtown

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 41,419 m² (4.14 ha, 10.23 acres) to 82,815 m² (8.28 ha, 20.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 2 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.

• 12 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development which will consist of: the extension of the

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241547

• 25 Nov 2024N/a

  Permission for development which will consist of: the extension

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241453

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyteige Burrow 000696

Recorded monuments

• WX046-097 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located on a level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (05E1096) of a windfarm project uncovered portion of a ditch (L 4.5m; D 0.25m) running E-W but curving to the N that produced coarse pottery and charcoal, and two small post-holes. (Hurley 2006, 15) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013

• WX046-098 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located on a level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (05E1096) of a windfarm project uncovered a pit with burnt stone and pottery and small isolated spreads of burnt mound material. (Hurley 2006, 15) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 August, 2013

• WX046-099 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Located on a level landscape. Archaeological monitoring (05E1096) of a windfarm project uncovered a small burnt pit (dims 0.92m x 0.9m; D 0.22m), a portion of a ditch (Wth 1.65m), probably from a field boundary that extended outside the excavated area, and a post-hole. (Hurley 2006, 14-15) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 20 August, 2013

• WX046-102 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  A roadway runs W-E (L c. 1km) a little N of Ballymagir moated site (WX046-052001-) and castle (WX046-052002-) along the spine of a causeway, and terminates at the E end of Richfield townland at what was the W shore of the Broad Water inlet of Ballyteige Lough, called Mablen Haven in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 149). Archaeological monitoring (05E1096) identified a gateway (WX046-101----) at the E end of the road, and excavation revealed the cobbled surface with strengthened edges (Hurley 2009). It is postulated that there may have been a quay at the E end of the road from the middle ages (Hurley 2006, 18-9). However, there is no mention of one in the Civil Survey (1654-6), although FitzNicholls Dock, which would be in Ballyharty on the E side of the Broad Water inlet is recorded. The road and gateway may be late 17th or 18th century in date. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upoad 20 August, 2013

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2887 (ZIP).

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. Wexford.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

240,950 m² (24.1 ha, 59.54 acres)

Civil parish

Killag, and its townlands

Barony

Bargy

Electoral division

Killag, the unit of the census

Census 2022

508 people lived in 176 households in the Killag electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Richfield, Richfield (Reclaimed), Riesk

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.