Newtown North
Townland in the civil parish of Donohill, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Baile Nua Thuaidh
- Area
- 114 ha
- 282 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 12,907 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown North, from 259 m² to 100,659 m² (10.07 ha, 24.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 North 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
18 Jun 2026N/a
decommissioning of existing septic tank and to install a new wastewater treatment tank and percolation treatment system
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660592
18 Dec 2025Conditional
construction of entrance, dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561324
14 Jun 2019Conditional
change of house design to that previously granted under reference 17600484 and 18600782
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600658
20 Jun 2018Conditional
change of house design to that previously granted under Ref No 17600484
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600782
3 May 2017Conditional
a new dwelling (to replace existing dwelling to be demolished), garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600484
29 Mar 2017N/a
new dwelling (to replace existing dwelling), garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600311
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 North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown North.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1790. Lobby-entry plan. Hipped reed thatched roof with decorative ridge scolloping and rendered chimneystack. Smooth rendered clay walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door to front in windbreak under projection of main roof. Outbuildings to rear with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and mass concrete walls. Wrought-iron vehicular and pedestrian gates to front of site with rendered piers.
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 moderately low, 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 North.
- 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 North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown North · An Baile Nua Thuaidh
- Area
- 1,139,776 m² (113.98 ha, 281.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donohill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Electoral division
- Donohill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donohill electoral division: 656 people in 242 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyneill, Glassdrum, Glebe, Gorteenduvane, Greenfield, Leenane West, Newtown, Newtown South, Rahyvira
- Placenames
- Newtown North 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.