Newtown

184 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 58 m² to 96,169 m² (9.62 ha, 23.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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.

• 5 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, the installation of a sewerage treatment unit and percolation area along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360159

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct slatted shed together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23289

• 25 Nov 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, the installation of a sewerage treatment unit and percolation area along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21663

• 3 Sept 2020Conditional

  permission for the construction of a slatted shed along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20341

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  to construct dormer type dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19278

• 13 Sept 2018Conditional

  to retain a dwelling house, a garage and fuel store along with connections to all ancillary site services and all other site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18462

• 26 Apr 2017Conditional

  Permission for I. The construction of a single storey dwelling house including the installation of a septic tank, sewage treatment unit and raised percolation area. II. The renovation of an existing dwelling house for the use of a prayer room including the demolition of two-storey extension to rear of the dwelling. III. The demolition of 2 no. existing outbuildings. IV. New entrance onto public road along with connections to all services and all other associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17178

• 20 Apr 2017N/a

  Planning Permission for:- (1) The construction of a single storey dwelling house including the installation of a septic tank, sewage treatment unit and raised percolation area. (2) The renovation of an existing dwelling house for the use of a prayer room including the demolition of two-storey extension to rear of the dwelling. (3) The demolition of 2 No. existing outbuildings. (4) New entrance onto public road along with connections to all services and all other associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17170

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 Newtown.

Recorded monuments

• RO030-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope, c. 1.3 km NW from the River Shannon. Circular overgrown area (diam. 56m E-W; 55.1m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.7-9.3m; int. H 0.7-1.5m; ext. H 2.2-3m) and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.8-10.8m; Wth of base 3-4.5m; D. 1.5-2m). There are traces of an outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.5m) S-SW and a collapsed field wall on the outer edge of the fosse N-E. There is a modern entrance (Wth 4.5m) at E. A post-medieval lime-kiln was found c. 60m to the NW in archaeological testing (03E0007) during 2003 (Henry 2006a). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO030-007 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone (present location)
  Description

  On a level landscape just E of the RC church at Whitehall. A limestone block (dims. 2.4m x 1.2m; T 0.3m) on which traditionally St Barry of Kilbarry (RO024-016001-) crossed the River Shannon from Co. Longford. It was found c. 1900 at an unknown place (RO024-018----) in the bed of the river at Kilbarry and brought to its present location. (OS Name Books; Farrell 1996) See the attached image. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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. Roscommon.

Name

Newtown

Area

2,301,177 m² (230.12 ha, 568.63 acres)

Civil parish

Termonbarry, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober North

Electoral division

Termonbarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

972 people lived in 360 households in the Termonbarry electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 69% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygate, Ballytoohey, Cloonshannagh, Corramagrine, Corraun, Kilbarry, Lack

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.