Newtown
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Ballaghkeen North, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Baile Nua
- Area
- 81.4 ha
- 201 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 2,859 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown, from 38 m² to 216,260 m² (21.63 ha, 53.44 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
3 Jun 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed construction of a steel portal framed agricultural
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260714
8 Nov 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for development at this site (The Ballywater Wind Farm)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241390
29 Oct 2024N/a
Permission for development at this site (The Ballywater Wind Farm)
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241343
7 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a serviced dwelling house, to erect a domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241231
23 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission is sought for a new horse barn and indefinite retention of existing h
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210983
11 Jun 2021N/a
Permission is sought for a new horse barn and indefinite retention of existing h
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210917
27 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct an extension to the side of existing dwelling and all as
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210628
2 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for the erection of a sunroom to the rear of the existi
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200564
15 May 2020N/a
Permission for retention for the erection of a sun room to the rear of the exist
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20200508
26 Apr 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190557
9 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180279
2 Oct 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171298
23 Feb 2017Refused
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYS
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170205
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: Cahore Polders and Dunes SAC 000700
- Special Protection Area: Cahore Marshes SPA 004143
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cahore Polders And Dunes 000700
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Newtown.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch hump back road bridge over channel, extant 1840. Coursed rubble stone walls with lichen-spotted rubble stone soldier course coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with lichen-spotted voussoirs. Sited spanning channel with unkempt banks to channel.
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 20 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.
- 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. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Newtown · An Baile Nua
- Area
- 813,519 m² (81.35 ha, 201.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Electoral division
- Cahore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cahore electoral division: 509 people in 196 households; 85% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bog and Warren, Cahore, Clonevin, Oldtown, Stable
- 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.