Newtown

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 525 m² to 365,541 m² (36.55 ha, 90.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

• 1 May 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct a six bay sheep shed on lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2632

• 12 Apr 2017Conditional

  for a dwelling house, sewerage treatment system, percolation area, domestic garage/fuel store and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17158

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Newtown Turlough 001646

Recorded monuments

• RO034-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope of a plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 2.8-3.3m; Wth of top 1-1.3m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) and a rush-covered rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5.6m; Wth of base 1.8-3m; D 0.15-0.45m). There are many gaps in the bank, but the original entrance could not be identified (max. ext. diam. 49m N-S; 47m E-W). See the attached aerial view taken from the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 26.4m N-S) defined by slight traces of an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth c. 3-3.5m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 1.2m) SSE-W-NNW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere, and an outer rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.6-6m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.4m). There is an entrance through the bank (Wth 1.2m), but no causeway, at WSW and the edge of the platform has been quarried ENE-SSE (max. ext. diam. 38m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 38.8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2-4.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) NNE-E-SSW and a scarp (H 1m) WSW-NNW. The perimeter has been quarried away SSW-WSW and NNW-NNE (dim. 26m NE-SW). There is an outer rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.5-7.5m; Wth of base 2.3-3.4m; D 0.1m at NE to 1.05m at NW), and the entrance (Wth 2m) and causeway (Wth 6m) are at SE. See the attached aerial views taken from the NW (001) and ESE (007) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-041 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope. Circular, domed and grass-covered area (diam. 17.3m N-S; H 0.3-0.4m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.4-9m; Wth of base 3.8-4.8m; D 1.3-1.8m) and an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.8-5.3m; H 0.45-0.55m). The fosse has been deepened at E to create a pond, and there are numerous breaks in the bank, none of which can be regarded as original (max. ext. diam. 36m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-101001 Pitfield
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope. An area of about 40 acres (c. 17 ha) contains pits (dims c. 8m x c. 3m; D 0.5m) placed c. 10m apart in N-S or E-W rows which are placed c. 30m apart. Standing stone (RO-034-101002-) is at the centre. See the attached aerial view taken from the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-101002 Standing stone
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope in the centre of pitfield (RO034-101001-). Limestone upright (dims 0.4m x 0.3m; H 1.7m) narrowing towards the top (dims 0.25m x 0.25m) and leaning to the SW. It is probably a recent feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-116 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. Visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (12-3-2019) as a circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 34m) defined by a low scarp. See attached image: RO034-116----_01 Google Earth aerial image, 12-3-2019. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 1 February 2023

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 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, 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. Roscommon.

Name

Newtown

Area

2,403,594 m² (240.36 ha, 593.94 acres)

Civil parish

Oran, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Cloonygormican, the unit of the census

Census 2022

441 people lived in 166 households in the Cloonygormican electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinturly, Brackloon, Caran, Carrownageeloge, Cloonmullenan, Foghanagh Beg, Peak, Runnamoat

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.