Newtown

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 157 m² to 258,351 m² (25.84 ha, 63.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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.

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to an existing slatted animal shed and for all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460465

• 20 Nov 2024Refused

  construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and for all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460419

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of the 1. Changing house type, 2. Changing garage type, 3. Altering location of driveway from that as previously granted under 13/223 and thereafter further extended.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 19295

• 23 Aug 2018Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, workshop, proprietary effluent treatment system with tertiary percolation treatment system, vehicular entrance, connection to all required services and all ancillary services

  Extension of duration, 3 homes · Sligo County Council, 13223

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_415 (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. Sligo.

Name

Newtown · An Baile Nua

Area

1,723,010 m² (172.3 ha, 425.77 acres)

Civil parish

Castleconor, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Castleconor West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleconor West electoral division: 1,095 people in 379 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnanilra, Carraun, Castleconor (Co. Mayo), Corbally, Killanly, Rathmurphy

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.