Newtown Upper

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown Upper, from 1 m² to 84,770 m² (8.48 ha, 20.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Newtown Upper 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.

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  alterations to existing outbuilding to form granny flat with interconnecting door to main house, rear single storey extension to replace existing sunroom, alterations to entrance porch, replacement of non-original windows and renovation of original sliding sash windows, internal alterations at first floor to form master bedroom with walk in wardrobe, raising of floor level at first floor at existing side extension and new hipped roof over same extension and removal of existing chimney, new roof windows, new section of roof to eliminate valley at east elevation, replastering at proposed granny flat, removal of existing concrete water tank to rear of building, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works (at a protected structure)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461150

• 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

• 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

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

• TS079-015 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  In flat terrain c. 1km from the Lingaun River which flows N-S roughly along the line of the Kilkenny border. In 1319-20 there is mention of eleven burgages at Lynan which has been identified as Newtown (Lennon) by Bradley (1985, 59). The present village is named 'Newtown Lower' on the 1906 ed. OS 6-inch map and is currently named Faugheen. There is a 13th-century church (TS079-015001-) in ruins at the E end of the present village which is also depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map and mentioned in the Civil Survey (1654-6). The Down Survey map also shows a cluster of a church and two houses at the W end of the village, roughly where the present RC church is located. There are no earthworks associated with this settlement visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Newtown, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870 with recent glazed porch addition to front elevation. Hipped slate M-profile roof with sheeted eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Timber-sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to front, one-over-one and two-over-two pane to rear, round-headed over entrance doorway and square-headed elsewhere, with replacement uPVC windows to ground floor of front. Elliptical-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber door, spoked fanlight and steps. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to east and south of house have pitched slate roofs, painted rendered and rubble stone walls, and segmental-, elliptical-, and square-headed openings. One outbuilding is double height with bays separated by full-height dressed limestone piers. Gravelled drive to front and slender decorative cast-iron piers with 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

At the centre of the townland of Newtown Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Newtown Upper · An Baile Nua Uachtarach

Area

1,133,321 m² (113.33 ha, 280.05 acres)

Civil parish

Newtownlennan, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa East

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ahenny, Birchwood (Co. Kilkenny), Castletown (Co. Kilkenny), Newtown Lower, Poulmaleen

Placenames

Newtown Upper 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.