Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of Baptistgrange, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Baile Nua
- Area
- 44.3 ha
- 110 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 16,868 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 4,810 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres) to 89,023 m² (8.9 ha, 22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Dec 2024Conditional
carrying out alterations to site entrance to the property including boundary set back to improve sight lines
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461113
23 Dec 2021Conditional
to construction a storey and a half split level dwelling with garage, new site entrance and associated boundary realignment. and all site development works including new effluent treatment plant and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211894
16 Feb 2021Conditional
1. Change site boundaries from that as previously granted under 18601166, 2. Retention Planning Permission for design alterations; on-site position adjustment of as-constructed dwelling from that as previously granted under 18601166
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21171
7 Aug 2020Refused
a 1.5 storey dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, install septic tank including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20883
13 Mar 2020Conditional
1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling consisting of sitting room and playroom
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20244
6 Mar 2020N/a
1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling consisting of sitting room and playroom
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20205
12 Feb 2020N/a
1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling consisting of sitting room and playroom
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20122
4 Feb 2020Refused
build a 1.5 storey dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, install septic tank including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2093
12 Dec 2019N/a
1 1/2 story extension to rear existing dwelling for sitting room and playroom
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601388
25 Sept 2018Conditional
construction of a 1 and 1/2 storey/bungalow dwelling, entrance onto laneway, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, connection to mains water, soakpits and all other associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601166
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
- Newtown House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1830, with two-bay side elevations. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having limestone sills. Recessed segmental-headed doorway with timber panelled door with sidelights and vertically-divided fanlight, with limestone steps. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls, and having square-headed openings with timber matchboard doors.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Newtown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 443,220 m² (44.32 ha, 109.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baptistgrange, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Colman, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Colman electoral division: 457 people in 156 households; 84% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygambon, Clonacody, Commons, Jossestown
- 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.