Newtown

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 339 m² to 90,657 m² (9.07 ha, 22.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

• 2 Jun 2026Conditional

  renovation of existing cottage including new entrance porch and bedroom extensions totalling 32.4 sqm, new domestic shed, new sewage treatment system, revised roadside boundary treatment and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26121

• 4 Dec 2023Conditional

  The development shall consist of planning permission for the erection of a dwelling house, installation of a proprietary treatment unit including a percolation/tertiary area and to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360515

• 18 May 2022Conditional

  REPLACING TWO 12M HIGH WOODEN POLES WITH A 15M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ALL ENCLOSED BY SECURITY FENCING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22375

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  RETENTION OF SINGLE STOREY CONSERVATORY TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 20414

• 18 Jul 2018Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH UPGRADE TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING RETENTION OF ACCESS, BOUNDARIES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS/SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18546

• 6 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17880

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: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470

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).

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.

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. Mayo.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

1,940,849 m² (194.08 ha, 479.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

An Geata Mór Theas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

881 people lived in 329 households in the An Geata M�r Theas electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghleam, Cartron, Clogher, Mullaghroe, Tiraun

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

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.