Newtown Farragher

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown Farragher, from 124 m² to 322,418 m² (32.24 ha, 79.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Farragher 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 May 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission and Permission for the following: 1. Retain as constructed rear extension. 2. To retain alterations made to elevations of the existing house (removal of chimney). 3. To install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660210

• 18 May 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a domestic dwelling house, with domestic garage, effluent treatment system, and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560230

• 16 Oct 2024Refused

  Permission to construct a domestic dwelling house, with domestic garage, effluent treatment system including percolation area, and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460490

• 26 Jul 2019Conditional

  for development to include construction of a new dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19382

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  for development to include the demolition of an existing dwelling house and shed, decommissioning of existing septic tank, and all ancillary site work

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19239

• 30 Oct 2018Refused

  for development to include the demolition of the existing dwelling house, construction of a new replacement dwelling house, new garage, wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18542

• 24 Sept 2018Conditional

  Full planning permission to install a septic tank system and percolation area for existing cottage and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18487

• 1 Jun 2017Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct new 6 bay slatted house with creep area, storage shed, associated site works and Planning Permission for Retention of existing cattle crush and pen at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17244

• 24 May 2017N/a

  to construct a new 6 bay slatted house with creep area, storage shed , associated site works and planning permission for retention of existing cattle crush and pen at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 17233

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 Farragher.

Recorded monuments

• RO035-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4.5-4.8m; Wth of top 1m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.5m at N to 1.8m at W) and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5m; Wth of base 2.3m; D 0.45-1m) SW-N-NE, and by a scarp (H 1-1.5m) elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance, and a NNW-SSE field wall overlies the W part of the monument. 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 Farragher.

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 Farragher, 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 Farragher.

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 Farragher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Newtown Farragher

Area

3,070,025 m² (307 ha, 758.62 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonygormican, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Carrowduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

212 people lived in 80 households in the Carrowduff electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacurly North, Carrowndangan, Cartron, Creevelea, Grange, Kiltultoge, Kinitty, Rushpark Farragher

Placenames

Newtown Farragher 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.