Commons or Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary's, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Coimín nó An Baile Nua
- Area
- 281.8 ha
- 696 acres
- Land parcels
- 136
- registered freehold, median 2,970 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons or Newtown, from 11 m² to 570,458 m² (57.05 ha, 140.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Commons or 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
24 Mar 2026Refused
Permission for retention for partially constructed dormer-style dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260361
24 Mar 2026Refused
Permission for retention for partially constructed dormer-style dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20260362
8 Oct 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out associated ancil
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251282
16 Sept 2025N/a
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house and to carry out associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251164
17 Jun 2025Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling, and associated site wo
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250736
14 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the reconstruction and restoration of the vacant
Permission, 5 homes · Wexford County Council, 20240280
14 Dec 2023Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling, shared entrance,
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231512
14 Dec 2023Refused
Permission to construct a fully servied dwelling, shared entrance,
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231513
27 Nov 2023N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling, shared entrance
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231411
27 Nov 2023N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling, shared entrance
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231412
17 Nov 2023N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231383
17 Nov 2023N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling, shared entrance
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231382
23 Jun 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for change of site layout from that previously granted to
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230719
6 Jun 2023N/a
Permission for change of site layout from that previously granted to
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230633
16 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced residence, shared entrance, domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221517
26 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Retention Permission for an as-built single storey extension and first floor ext
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210269
16 Feb 2021Refused
Permission for the proposed construction of a fully serviced dwelling house,
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210216
16 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed construction of a fully serviced dwelling house,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210215
27 Jul 2020Refused
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200838
16 Jun 2020Refused
Permission for the proposed construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, dom
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200632
16 Jun 2020Refused
Permission for the proposed construction of a fully serviced dwelling house, dom
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200634
19 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, AND ASSOCIATED S
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180504
26 Mar 2018N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE, AND ASSOCIATED S
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180372
15 Nov 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTI
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171484
25 Sept 2017Refused
PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING AND ASSOCIATE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171263
The 25 most recent of 28 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barrow River Estuary 000698
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons or Newtown.
Architectural heritage
- Newtown House, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay (east) or five-bay (west) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, ----. Pitched and hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, moss-covered concrete or rendered coping to gables with cement rendered chimney stacks to apexes having precast concrete capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement plastic rainwater goods on box eaves. Replacement cement rendered wall to front (north) elevation on rendered plinth with rendered quoins to ends; creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast surface finish (remainder). Elliptical-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement, doorcase with engaged columns on cut-granite step threshold supporting broken cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2553 (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 Commons or Newtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Commons or Newtown · An Coimín nó An Baile Nua
- Area
- 2,817,664 m² (281.77 ha, 696.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mary's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- New Ross Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- New Ross Rural electoral division: 4,164 people in 1,475 households; 52% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyroe Lower, Ballyroe Upper, Bawnmore, Lacken, Maudlins, Mounthanover, Pigotts or Tanyard, Ryleen, Scark
- Placenames
- Commons or 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.