Newtownwhite

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtownwhite, from 158 m² to 204,255 m² (20.43 ha, 50.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Newtownwhite 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.

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  retain existing mobile home on site and construct new dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area including all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25165

• 20 Jun 2023Conditional

  1. Demolish existing dwelling house 2. Construct new Dwelling House 3. All ancillary services associated with the development

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360225

• 15 Apr 2020Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING GROUNDWORK AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE. RETENTION OF EXISTING GRANNY FLAT WITH NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER. INCLUDING RETENTION OF ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SERVICES.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 20261

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  RETENTION FOR THE ERECTION OF A PREFABRICATED STRUCTURE (84SQM) FOR USE AS A TEMPORARY CLASSROOM, FULL PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION (278SQM) CONSISTING OF 2 NO. CLASSROOMS AND 1 NO. MULTI PURPOSE RESOURCE ROOM, ALTERATIONS OF INTERNAL LAYOUT OF EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING AND THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19967

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 Newtownwhite.

Recorded monuments

• MA022-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating average pasture, close to the SE boundary of the townland, located on a slight rise. There is a slight rise in ground level c. 40m to N, from which point the ground then falls abruptly in a steep natural slope towards a stream, which is 150m distant. This rath is named ‘Sandland Fort’ on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch map. It consists of a raised circular area (25.5m N–S; 27.6m E–W) defined at NE–S by a degraded earthen bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m, at SE), reduced elsewhere to a scarp (Wth ext. slope c. 3m; ext. H 1.5m, at NW). The bank has a low internal rim, but is quite well defined on its external slope, with the external face of the scarp at W–NW being particularly pronounced. The entrance may be at E, where there is a low area/gap (Wth 2.5m) in the bank. A low scarp (H 0.4m) separates the NW quadrant on its E and S sides from the rest of the interior, which is at a slightly lower level. There is a possible souterrain (MA022-067001-), evident as a shallow grassed over linear depression in the W half of the interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 May 2019

• MA022-067001 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in the W half of a rath (MA022-067----). A shallow linear depression (Wth 1.4-2m; D 0.4m) is evident close to the bank on the W side of the rath interior. It extends to NNW for 5m, then turns to NE, continuing through the NW quadrant for c. 8m. It is possible that this represents a collapsed souterrain. It is grassed-over, with no structural features evident. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 May 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1893; extant 1896. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered piers with chamfered stringcourses supporting parapets having chamfered coping. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

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 Newtownwhite, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newtownwhite.

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 Newtownwhite with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Newtownwhite · Baile Nua an Fhaoitigh

Area

1,348,594 m² (134.86 ha, 333.24 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysakeery, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ballysakeery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

620 people lived in 222 households in the Ballysakeery electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysakeery, Carrowreagh, Crosspatrick, Knockalough, Moyne, Rathglass East, Rosserk, Rusheens

Placenames

Newtownwhite 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.