Newtown

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 185 m² to 716,306 m² (71.63 ha, 177 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.

• 23 Sept 2026N/a

  for alterations to the previously permitted dwelling house constructed. The principal alterations from the original permitted development include an increase in area to include larger reception areas, a garage, a swimming pool and a boat house beside the wildlife pond

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660614

• 8 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct a single-storey dwelling house and new vehicular entrance, install new sewage treatment system & percolation area, new borehole well for fresh water and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560506

• 25 Jul 2025N/a

  to construct a single-storey dwelling house and new vehicular entrance, install new sewage treatment system & percolation area, new borehole well for fresh water and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560457

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  for the erection of a dwelling house and domestic garage / store with treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560303

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  is sought for a single storey office building including services and new foul water treatment system, landscaping with all ancillary services and associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20726

• 25 Sept 2020Refused

  for development. The development will consist of the importation, screening and recovery of inert waste, namely soil and stones, in a phased manner with resultant increase in finished land height of approximately 1.4m on 8.05 hectares, at a maximum rate of 24,000 tonnes per annum with cumulative tonnage of 192,000 tonnes, over a ten year period. The screening process involves separation of all vegetation including root systems (rhizomes) which will be re-exported from site to a licenced disposal facility. Access and screening of material will be carried out using an existing permitted vehicular entrance, concrete yard and hard-standing area (previously authorised under 11/272); associated works includes the provision of a weighbridge, wheel wash, office and welfare facilities, temporary berms and screening, and associated civil works including use of modular concrete walling on concrete pad as well as undergrounding and/or re-location of electricity transmission lines within the site; all on a total site area of 12.01 hectares. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20637

• 10 Sept 2020N/a

  for development. The development will consist of the importation, screening and recovery of inert waste, namely soil and stones, in a phased manner with resultant increase in finished land height of approximately 1.4m on 8.05 hectares, at a maximum rate of 24,000 tonnes per annum with cumulative tonnage of 192,000 tonnes, over a ten year period. The screening process involves separation of all vegetation including root systems (rhizomes) which will be re-exported from site to a licenced disposal facility. Access and screening of material will be carried out using an existing permitted vehicular entrance, concrete yard and hard-standing area (previously authorised under 11/272); associated works includes the provision of a weighbridge, wheel wash, office and welfare facilities, temporary berms and screening, and associated civil works including use of modular concrete walling on concrete pad as well as undergrounding and/or re-location of electricity transmission lines within the site; all on a total site area of 12.01 hectares. The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20599

• 9 Dec 2019N/a

  for a single storey office building including services and new foul water treatment system, landscaping with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19908

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  for development within an area of 24.5 hectares consisting of: Continuance of use of the existing permitted quarry site and all existing ancillary facilities and storage areas, authorised by the previous grants of planning permissions P.10/25, P.06/1907 (PL10.228444), P.9/96 and P.93/133; Deepening of the existing quarry void (deepening only with no lateral increase in footprint) within the existing permitted quarry footprint of 3.6 hectares from the permitted depth of 28mAOD to a final depth of -10mAOD. The quarry deepening will cover an area of 2.0 hectares within the existing quarry footprint of 3.6 hectares; Removal of the existing site welfare facilities consisting of portacabin office, canteen, toilet structures and associated septic tank; Provision of new site welfare portacabin facilities consisting of administration office (30m²), managers office/meeting room (30m²), employee changing room (30m²), employee canteen/ kitchen (45m²) and employee toilets /showers (15m²); Provision of waste water treatment system and associated percolation area; Existing rate of rock extraction to remain at c.35,000 cubic metres per year. no proposed increase in rate of extraction or in associated traffic levels which will remain the same; Development life of the quarry extended by c.20 years, with an additional two years for restoration (total permission of 22 years); Restoration thereafter to a combination of natural habitat site and agricultural lands. All

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19519

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  to erect a covered slurry storage tank and ancillary concrete works on our lands

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17628

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

• KK019-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rolling grassland, with a modern tree plantation to the NE delimiting the extent of the monument in that sector. Identified as an upstanding enclosure on an aerial photograph (GSI S481, 1973-3). A roughly circular area (int. dims. 50m E-W; 42m N-S) enclosed by a low wide bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1-1.5m; Wth at crest 4m; overall Wth 8.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.2m). There is an entrance (Wth 4.2m) at SSE with a causeway (L 3m; Wth 4.2m) over the fosse. An E-W field boundary, indicated on the 1st (1839-40) ed. OS map and the 1945-6 revision, bisects the interior. A rectangular platform (L 5m E-W; Wth 2m N-S; H 0.2m) in the N portion may represent a house site (KK019-016001-). A circular platform (diam. 3.2m; H 0.2m) occurs immediately N of the bisecting field boundary. The fosse at NE has been recut as a drain. On Digitalglobe satellite imagery (viewed 21 September 2020) a farm trackway appears to have been constructed around the outer edge of the enclosure (SE-W-NW). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 21 September 2020

• KK019-016001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  A rectangular platform (L 5m E-W; Wth 2m N-S; H 0.2m) in the N portion of a ringfort (KK019-016----) may represent a house site. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 April 2013

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. Kilkenny.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

3,655,460 m² (365.55 ha, 903.28 acres)

Civil parish

St. Canice, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

St. Canice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

607 people lived in 197 households in the St. Canice electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardboy, Ballyhendricken, Barrackhill (Cranesborough), Bonnetstown, Cloghoge, Holdensrath, Kylebeg, Kylenasaggart, Lacken

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.