Newtownfane

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownfane, from 1 m² to 157,410 m² (15.74 ha, 38.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Newtownfane 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 Sept 2026N/a

  Outline permission sought for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system with percolation area and associated site development works off new access laneway to existing entrance at public road

  Outline permission · Louth County Council, 26110

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to side and rear of existing dormer style dwelling house and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23467

• 10 Aug 2023N/a

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to side and rear of existing dormer style dwelling house and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23358

• 26 Jun 2023Refused

  Outline Planning Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works at Cavan/Rathroal, Knockbridge, Co Louth.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360179

• 3 Oct 2017Conditional

  Retention permission to retain the front façade and window of the existing dwelling following incorporation of the 3.84m2 first floor Veranda into the internal first floor landing space.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17739

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 Newtownfane.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtownfane.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtownfane.

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 Newtownfane, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Newtownfane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Newtownfane · Baile Nua Áth Féan

Area

532,790 m² (53.28 ha, 131.66 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Haggardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

9,301 people lived in 3,293 households in the Haggardstown electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 54% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allardstown, Cavan, Dunmahon, Rathroal, Rossmakay, Stephenstown, Walterstown

Placenames

Newtownfane 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.