Newtown

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 145 m² to 228,015 m² (22.8 ha, 56.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Aug 2026N/a

  Change of use of licensed premises, restaurant/function room to the Village cafe (unlicensed), together with associated site works. The application also included the construction of 8 no. 2-bedroom 2-storey dwellings, access road and parking associated with the residential development plus connections to services including a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660618

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 12 Mar 2024Conditional

  convert a previously approved domestic garage, under planning reference number P22/969 for use ancillary to the dwelling house as overflow accommodation and to provide a new upgraded proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area to serve both the proposed development and existing dwelling house combined, along with all associated services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2465

• 3 Nov 2022Conditional

  Retain a domestic garage constructed to the rear of the existing dwelling house along with all associated services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22969

• 26 May 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DETACHED SLATTED AGRICULTURAL BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOUSING SHEEP AND STORING ANIMAL FOODSTUFF AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17410

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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

• MA099-020 Crannog
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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 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.

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. Mayo.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

2,096,984 m² (209.7 ha, 518.18 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyovey, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Portroyal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

603 people lived in 220 households in the Portroyal electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynanerroon Beg, Ballynanerroon More, Ballynaslee, Cloonee, Derrew, Derrymore, Furnace, Gallagh, Portroyal, Srah

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

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.