Newtown

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 274 m² to 226,537 m² (22.65 ha, 55.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; 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.

• 17 Jun 2022Refused

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

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22299

• 1 Jun 2022N/a

  Permission to construct a dwelling house with domestic garage and all site ancillary development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22266

• 10 Jun 2021N/a

  permission (1) To construct a new Biomass Burner; (2) To construct a new open front storage shed; (3) To construct a new pre-fabricated office; (4) To construct a steel container on a concrete base to store a drying unit; (5) To construct a hardstand area for parking & turning, and all associated site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21323

• 31 May 2021N/a

  planning permission 1. To construct a new Biomass Burner. 2. To construct a new open front storage shed. 3. To construct a new pre-fabricated office/ 4. To construct a steel container on a concrete base to store a drying unit. 5. To construct a hardstand area for parking & turning, and all associated site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21289

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  for the change of use of premises from a commercial nursing home to a domestic house at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2192

• 5 Feb 2021N/a

  the change of use of premises from a commercial nursing home to a domestic house at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2170

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  1. to construct a new entrance and to close up an existing land entrance. 2. To construct a new storage shed with hardstand area and all associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20384

• 2 May 2019Conditional

  for retention and completion of dwelling house and garage previously granted under Pl. Ref No. PD/09/514 and Extension of Duration under Pl. Ref. No. PD/14/3088 along with minor alterations to plans & elevations, connection to existing waste water treatment system and associated site development works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19224

• 4 Apr 2019N/a

  for retention and completion of dwelling house approved under PL Ref. No. PD/09/514 and PD/14/3038 with minor alterations to plans and elevations and all associated site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 19170

• 1 Oct 2018Refused

  development to consist of the construction of a 4-bedroom dwelling house, garage, waste treatment system and ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18499

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 Ree SAC 000440
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1427 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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. Roscommon.

Name

Newtown

Area

1,428,255 m² (142.83 ha, 352.93 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Mote, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mote electoral division: 1,009 people in 345 households; 89% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurray, Bogganfin, Carrowmore, Carrowroe, Cloonconra, Lisbride

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.