Newtown

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 616 m² to 233,282 m² (23.33 ha, 57.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.

• 15 Dec 2023Conditional

  the proposed construction of a new single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house as per the submitted drawings and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360229

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown.

Architectural heritage

• Newtown House, house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having single-bay single-storey extension/entrance porch to the centre of the rear (west) elevation. Hipped natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and a central pair of rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut tooled limestone sills and diminishing timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three to first floor openings and six-over-six to ground floor openings. Central segmental-headed door opening to main elevation (east) having double leaf timber battened doors with spoked fanlight over, and with cut limestone plinth blocks and cut limestone threshold. Set back from road in mature grounds to the east of Legan. Complex of outbuildings (13402407) adjacent to the north. Main entrance gateway to the south comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts (on octagonal-plan) having a pair of decorative cast-iron gates. Pedestrian cast-iron gate located to the west side of main vehicular gates. Rubble limestone walls to site, moulded limestone gate posts to rear (west).

• Newtown House, outbuilding, 1800–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings associated with Newtown House (13402403), built c. 1820 and c. 1870 arranged around a courtyard to the north of the main building. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to south, built c. 1870, having pitched natural slate roof with brick chimneystack to west gable end. Roughcast rendered finish over random rubble walls with cut limestone eaves course. Square-headed window openings to north elevation with metal lattice windows and cut stone sills. Square-headed door openings to north elevation and at second floor level of west elevation, having sheet metal doors. Segmental-headed carriage–arch opening to south elevation, in grounds of house, having chamfered limestone voussoirs and surround, with prominent chamfered impost stones. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north of yard, built c. 1870, having exterior random rubble limestone staircase to southeast gable end having cut stone steps and cast-iron railings. Pitched natural slate roof with cut stone eaves course and with wrought-iron weather vane over gable apex to southeast. Random rubble limestone walls, partially rendered, with flush roughly dressed limestone quoins to corners. Clock face set in southeast gable apex having red brick surround. Square-headed window opening to northwest gable end with metal-framed casement window. Square-headed door openings with sheet metal doors. Open single-storey outbuilding, c. 1820, to west of yard having pitch corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges, pebbledashed walls, and square-headed openings. Random rubble boundary walls to east (road-frontage) and to northeast of site, formerly walls of outbuildings. Gateway to the east comprising a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls and wrought-iron gates to site. Modern barrel-vaulted barn to the northwest. Located to the north of Newtown House (13402403) and to the east of Legan.

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 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. Longford.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

418,316 m² (41.83 ha, 103.37 acres)

Civil parish

Rathreagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

611 people lived in 236 households in the Foxhall electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnavealoge, Carrigeen, Kinard

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.