Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of Templeachally, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Baile Nua
- Area
- 100.7 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 7 m² to 149,731 m² (14.97 ha, 37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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
20 Apr 2026N/a
conversion of the garage ground floor and attic area to a habitable living area, extension to rear of dwelling and alterations and changes to elevations
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660336
27 Oct 2023Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and entrance with access off existing private laneway for which upgrade works are also sought to existing entrance along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360863
13 Jul 2023Conditional
renovation and extend existing dwelling including new entrance, along with installation of new onsite waste water treatment system
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360515
5 Sept 2022N/a
the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and entrance with access off existing private laneway along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260459
31 May 2021Conditional
construction of dwelling house, treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site works, also demolition of existing entrance and boundary wall and construction of new similar entrance and boundary wall set back from the road edge, NIS submitted with the application
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21784
12 Feb 2021N/a
to construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and entrance with access off existing private laneway along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21161
11 Sept 2019Conditional
construction of dormer extension to existing dwelling, demolition of existing lean-to extension to rear of property and all associated site and incidental works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601002
12 Apr 2019Conditional
construction of domestic garage with retaining walls and all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600377
16 Jan 2019Conditional
dwellinghouse, boat storage shed, private well, private sewerage treatment system and associated percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600024
20 Dec 2018N/a
private dwellinghouse, private well, private sewerage treatment system and associated percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601520
10 Jul 2018Conditional
construction of a Waste Water Treatment System and percolation area
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600881
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
- TN019-037 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a W-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area overlooking Lough Derg. A poorly preserved circular area (diam. 23m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.4m). No entrance feature visible. The site is located in forestry plantation with trees planted on top of the bank and across the site interior. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
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).
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 high, 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_1142 (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.
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
- 1,007,036 m² (100.7 ha, 248.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeachally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Derrycastle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Derrycastle electoral division: 490 people in 170 households; 95% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curraghaviller, Derry Demesne, Derrybeg, Killary, Ryninch Upper
- 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.