Newcastle Upper

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcastle Upper, from 64 m² to 241,544 m² (24.15 ha, 59.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Newcastle Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Newcastle Upper 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 the townland of Newcastle Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WX037-016 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Traditionally this is thought to have been built by a junior branch of the Roches of Artramon (WX037-007----). Walter Roche of Newcastle is the only proprietor known (Jeffrey 1979, 122 3). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) he owned ‘a handsome castle in indifferent repair’ at Newcastle in 1654. In 1640 he also owned 960 acres in Tikillin parish in the townlands of Newcastle, Killowen, Ballytarfan (Ballyharran) and the unknown Ballyboggan, as well as the ferry at Ferrycarrig (Simington 1953, 112). Newcastle is depicted as a ruin on Taylor and Skinners map (1778) (Andrews 1969, 143), and it is described as the site of a castle on the 1839 and 1941 eds of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a level landscape, but there are no visible remains of a structure at ground level in a farm complex. See the attached section from the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 14 December, 2012

• WX037-095 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the NE-facing slope of a slight NW-SE ridge (L c. 400m; H c. 2-4m). The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 48m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by a single fosse is visible only on iMAPs (2022). The straight side at S (L c. 35m) incorporates the N side of a rectangular pond (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) that is visible on the aerial image and is represented on the 1902 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A NNE-SSW drain runs through the enclosure from the N edge of the pond. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from iMAPs (2022) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 June 2023

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1793 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1793, on a T-shaped plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey lean-to windbreak. For sale, 2006. Corrugated-iron covered hipped or hipped gabled oat thatch roof on collared timber construction with pressed iron ridge, rendered buttressed chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening with concrete threshold, and concealed dressings including timber lintel framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (north) or three-over-six (south) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in courtyard.

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 Newcastle Upper, about 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newcastle Upper.

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

Name

Newcastle Upper · An Caisleán Nua Uachtarach

Area

844,207 m² (84.42 ha, 208.61 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

Ballyharran Lower, Ballyharran Upper, Ballywater, Kereight, Killowen, Newcastle, Newcastle Lower

Placenames

Newcastle Upper 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.