Newtown
Newtown is a townland in the civil parish of Youghalarra, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Baile Nua.
Parcel 565422
- Area
- 41,857 m² (4.19 ha, 10.34 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Newtown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 143 ha
- 353 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 3,285 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Amenity
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 715 m² to 297,548 m² (29.75 ha, 73.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Oct 2025Conditional
the extension to existing house
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561013
9 Nov 2020Conditional
change of house design from that previously granted planning permission under file ref. 20/196, the proposed development will now comprise the construction of a single storey detached dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201316
27 Oct 2020Conditional
(a) new part 2 storey, part single storey dwelling, (b) proposed new treatment system, percolation area (c) proposed new entrance from public road (d) and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201252
4 Mar 2020Conditional
construction of a storey-and-a-half detached dwellinghouse, detached garage, waste water treatment system, site entance and all ancillary site works thereto
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20196
6 Dec 2019Conditional
construction of a split level dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance, driveway along with all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601369
9 Sept 2019Conditional
a). To retain the use of agricultural land/farmyard and structures as a clay pigeon shooting range to include a down the line shooting shed, two no. skeet trap houses, use of part of an existing farm shed as an equipment/ clay target store, toilets and septic tank together with all ancillary works. b). To construct a percolation area to serve the septic tank.
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600993
29 Mar 2019Conditional
a split level dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance, driveway along with all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600303
5 Apr 2017Conditional
(a) an extension to the Southern end to match the existing structure and to install a window at ground floor level at the Northern gable of the existing dwelling, to remove original site entrance and re-align front timber post & rail boundary as previously permitted in relation to planning permission ref: 07/51/1233 together with other ancillary works. (b) permission to retain 4 no. roof windows in the existing roof and site entrance on the northern boundary to the rear of the dwelling to replace the position as agreed in planning ref: 07/51/1233, together with associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600345
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
- TN020-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a N-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A raised circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 2.3-3m), a wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4m; D 1.2m) and a possible outer bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.5m) visible at N only. Possible causewayed entrance at NE where a field fence intersects the fosse. The interior is covered in dense vegetation making detailed examination impossible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- Newtown House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance to house comprising square-plan cut limestone piers with panelled faces, and quadrant walls with limestone and concrete plinth having decorative cast-iron railings and gates, built c.1860. Rendered wall connects gateway to field gate to east comprising similar piers. Marble plaque addition to pier.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 1,429,516 m² (142.95 ha, 353.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Youghalarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Youghalarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,001 people lived in 346 households in the Youghalarra electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyrusheen, Carrow, Corraquill, Crannagh, Creggane, Esker, Knockanfoil More, Knockannamohilly, Monroe, Pallas Beg
- 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.