Newtown Kilcashel

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown Kilcashel, from 305 m² to 167,008 m² (16.7 ha, 41.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Kilcashel 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 Sept 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission for construction of a three-bay calf shed, roofed manure pit and seepage tank, on lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2561

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560061

• 3 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct (I) cubicles shed with slatted tanks and feeding area; (II) dairy wash tank with rain water tank and all associated site works. Demolition of over ground slurry tower is also required at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20340

• 16 Feb 2018Conditional

  Retention of a four bay double slatted cattle shed with creep on lands at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 1860

• 2 Feb 2018Conditional

  a) to demolish existing agricultural sheds b) Construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works at the site located in

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1836

• 4 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a four bay single slatted cattle shed on lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17486

• 20 Jun 2017N/a

  Planning Permission for the following:- (a) To demolish existing agricultural sheds; (b) Construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and associated site works at the site located in

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17275

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 Kilcashel.

Recorded monuments

• RO054-015001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (int. diam. c. 41m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a rebuilt wall (Wth 1.1m; H 0.6-0.9m) on the foundations of an older wall (Wth c. 2m) NW-NE with traces of the wall at E (original Wth 1.7m) and S (Wth c. 1m). It was used as a children's burial ground (RO054-015002-) with grave-markers (Gannon 1972) which are no longer visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO054-015002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope. The interior of cashel (RO054-015001-) was used as a children's burial ground with grave-markers (Gannon 1972), but the grave-markers are no longer visible. 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 Kilcashel.

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 Kilcashel, 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 the townland of Newtown Kilcashel.

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

Name

Newtown Kilcashel

Area

1,145,865 m² (114.59 ha, 283.15 acres)

Civil parish

Moore, and its townlands

Barony

Moycarn

Electoral division

Ballydangan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

784 people lived in 263 households in the Ballydangan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydangan, Cranberry Island, Dolanstown Kilcashel, Lowtown Kilcashel, Oldtown Kilcashel

Placenames

Newtown Kilcashel 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.