Newtown Lower

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown Lower, from 12 m² to 390,001 m² (39 ha, 96.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 May 2026N/a

  construction of a new 50 space car park and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660406

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  the storage/kitchen area (137 sq.m), the temporary outdoor covered dining area (85 sq.m), temporary dining pods and hard landscaping (112 sq.m) and the existing carpark (410 sq.m) as constructed and associated entrance onto Newtown Manor. Planning Permission is also being sought for (a) the removal of the storage area and temporary structures and the replacement with a permanent extension of 577 sq.m including a restaurant (110.3 sq.m), a kitchen (138.8 sq.m) a function room (191.9 sq.m), an outdoor covered dining area (111 sq.m), toilets and ancillary circulation space; together with associated internal alterations to public house and first floor apartment; (b) upgrade works to the carparking area (including re-surface, line markings, etc.), and erection of a timber boundary fence to the eastern boundary; (c) decommissioning of existing on-site effluent treatment system and replacement with connection to public mains via proposed on- site pumping station; together with all associated works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360383

• 31 May 2023N/a

  a) Retention of storage/kitchen area (137 sq.m), retention of temporary outdoor covered dining area (85 sq.m), temporary dining pods and hard landscaping (112 sq.m) and retention of existing carpark (410 sq.m) as constructed and associated entrance onto Newtown Manor; b) Removal of storage area and temporary structures and replacement with a permanent extension of 577sq.m including a restaurant (110.3sq.m), a kitchen (138.8sq.m) a function room (191.9sq.m), an outdoor covered dining area (111sq.m), toilets and ancillary circulation space; together with associated internal alterations to public house and first floor apartment; c) Upgrade works to the carparking area (including re-surface, line markings, etc.), and erection of a timber boundary fence to the eastern boundary; d) Decommissioning of existing on-site effluent treatment system and replacement with connection to public mains via proposed on- site pumping station, together with all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360365

• 7 Dec 2021Refused

  works carried out at our property comprising of the construction of a covered outdoor dining space, extension to rear of property for storage and staff circulation associated with the kitchen space, storage unit to rear of property, vehicular entrance opening to the South road facing boundary wall and hardcore surface area on site for the purpose of on-site parking and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211763

• 25 Nov 2020N/a

  construction of an extension (and associated site works) to the existing workshop, the works will include the construction of external crane rail support frames in addition to the extension to the workshop

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201398

• 8 Oct 2020N/a

  construction of an extension (and associated site works) to the existing workshop, the works will include the construction of external crane rail support frames in addition to the extension to the workshop

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201160

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: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS079-015001 Church
  Description

  On flat ground enclosed by a rectangular stone-walled graveyard (TS079-015003-). The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'a little Church unroofed' in 'Newtownelennane' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 262). Constructed of sandstone rubble roughly coursed, this 13th-century church (int. dims. 8.27m x 15.52m; W wall T 1.08m; S wall T 0.84m; H c. 4m), orientated E-W, is overgrown with scrub and the walls are heavily ivy clad. The N wall is leaning outwards and most of the outer face of the W end of the N wall has collapsed and lies in a rubble heap at the base of the wall. There is a small buttress at the W end of the N wall and slight base-batter on the E wall (H 1.2m, Wth 0.25m). The church has two doorways, one at the W end of the S wall and another at the N end of the W wall. Both doorways have been modified. The S doorway has a slate lintel which is a re-used graveslab (TS079-015006-). The church is lit by two windows in the N wall, one broken out, the other round headed; three flat-headed windows in the S wall with traces of diagonal tooling and a triple-light lancet window (H 3.5-4m) in the E gable with moulded sandstone surrounds. The E and W lancets are blocked up with sandstone. At the E end of the S wall there is a pointed-headed piscina with moulded surrounds and flat-headed aumbry with crude sandstone surrounds. At the E end of the N wall there is a pointed aumbry with moulded sandstone surround though only the internal roll-moulding survives intact. Lying at the E end of the church interior are three fragments of a graveslab (TS079-015007-). A sheela-na-gig (TS079-015002-) from the church was acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1968 (Lucas 1971, 232). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS079-015002 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Formerly located in the church at Newtown Lower (TS079-015001-), acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1968 (Lucas and Raftery 1971, 232). Roughly carved stone (dims. 0.36m H x 0.28m Wth x 0.18m D) to represent a human head and torso with arms pulling the vulva apart. Head is crudely carved with hollows to represent the eyes and mouth and a raised ridge to form the nose. The pointed chin rests on the chest. No indication of breasts or legs. (Lucas 1971, 232). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS079-015003 Graveyard
  Description

  The medieval church (TS079-015001-) is located on flat ground enclosed by a rectangular stone walled graveyard (dims. 33m N-S; 39m E-W). There are three medieval graveslabs (TS079-015004----; TS079-015005---- and TS079-015006----) visible in the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS079-015004 Graveslab
  Description

  7m W of Newtown Lennon church (TS079-015001-) and 3m S of the N wall of the graveyard (TS079-015003-) there is a coffin-shaped graveslab. The sandstone slab (L 1.66m; Wth at top 0.44m; Wth at base 0.26m; D 0.2m) is broken, horizontally, into four pieces. It has a chamfer (Wth 0.05m) around the edge and is decorated with a five-armed cross with fleur-de-lys terminals, the cross-shaft also terminates with a fleur-de-lis. This slab is likely to date to the 14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS079-015005 Graveslab
  Description

  In Newtown Lennon graveyard (TS079-015003-), resting against the W wall of the graveyard and 2.4m S of the N wall. This is an unusually decorated tapering sandstone slab, it has been broken and the head and base are missing, the surviving slab (L 0.88m; Wth at top 0.5m; Wth at base 0.43m; D 0.12m) is perforated with a hole (diam. 0.05m) on its lower sinister side, the sides of which are quite worn, indicating re-use as a spud stone. The slab is decorated with the parallel incised lines of a cross-shaft with scrolls eminating from the shaft and zig-zag lines (incised chevrons) running from top to bottom along the outer face of the slab. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS079-015006 Graveslab
  Description

  Inserted in the S doorway of the church (TS079-015003-) there is a sandstone lintel which is a re-used graveslab, the incised line of the cross-shaft can still be seen, though the decorated base, a fleur-de-lis, visible in 1968 (OPW files) is not clear. The stone has been broken or deliberately cut vertically along its sinister side. The upper and lower portions are incorporated in the masonry surrounding the doorway. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS079-015007 Graveslab
  Description

  Lying at the E end of the church interior are three fragments of a graveslab decorated with floriated cross and inscribed in black letter script, both in a 16th/17th-century style. They may be from the same graveslab described in the OS Letters as located near the S doorway, with the inscription in raised letters 'Hic jacet Ricardus Hanracan et Iohana Brenach uxor eius que obiit, x Februarii Anno Domini 1599' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 66). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c.1885, with five-bay nave, five-bay south and four-bay north side aisles, and sacristy to south-east. Pitched slate roofs with cut stone bellcote, cross finials and copings, and rusticated sandstone chimneystack to sacristy. Snecked rusticated sandstone walls with battered plinth and having buttresses to gable front. Round-arched window openings, triple to east gable and with oculus to west, having cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and stained-glass windows. Round-arched door openings with carved limestone surrounds having roll mouldings to main and north aisle doorways, plain to sacristy, with replacement timber battened double-doors. Interior has circular-profile marble columns supporting round-arched nave arcade, braced scissors truss roof, carved timber gallery and support structure, and marble reredos, altar and lectern. Graveyard and outbuilding to site. Ornate limestone obelisk monument in graveyard. Rubble stone boundary wall with rendered piers and cast-iron gates.

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

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

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 Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Newtown Lower · An Baile Nua Íochtarach

Area

1,553,065 m² (155.31 ha, 383.77 acres)

Civil parish

Newtownlennan, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa East

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newtown electoral division: 410 people in 160 households; 77% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinurra, Castletown (Co. Kilkenny), Cloghapistole, Cregg, Newtown Upper, Poulmaleen

Placenames

Newtown Lower 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.