Newfarm

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newfarm, from 299 m² to 92,958 m² (9.3 ha, 22.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Newfarm 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.

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, garage, on site wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, new domestic splayed entrance and driveway and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560764

• 19 Feb 2024Conditional

  for the retention of alterations to that approved and an extension to an existing dwelling house and also planning permission for the retention of a domestic garage

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460073

• 15 Sept 2022Conditional

  permission for steel shed and as constructed garage and Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling and associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 22613

• 24 Apr 2019Conditional

  Retention of the following; (A) Construction of a domestic garage (B) Construction of a rear extension and alterations to the existing dwelling house (C) Minor alterations to site works including minor alterations to approved site boundaries, approved site entrance and approved location of dwelling

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19276

• 17 Jul 2017Conditional

  for retention for the construction of a detached domestic garage/store, the construction of a ground floor extension to a residential dwelling and all other associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17475

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newfarm.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newfarm.

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 Newfarm, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2519 (ZIP).

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 Newfarm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Newfarm · An Fheirm Nua

Area

219,286 m² (21.93 ha, 54.19 acres)

Civil parish

The Rower, and its townlands

Barony

Ida

Electoral division

The Rower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

865 people lived in 290 households in the The Rower electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hermitage, Kylemore

Placenames

Newfarm 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.